DURING Tuesday and Wednesday last the Great Eastern has been most sharply tested, and has had to weather as heavy a gale as has swept into the harbour of Holyhead for years past. Most fortunately, the ...
Article : 6,587 wordsOn Tuesday night, a violent gale blew here from the S.E., and at about six o'clock on that evening, Mr. Bearman, chief boatman at the Kingsgate station, observed a blue light burning to seaward; supposing ...
Article : 464 wordsThe bark Anna Dorothea, of Christiania, Edward Roer, master, was observed on Wednesday morning at daylight at anchor, close to Christchurch Ledge, the wind blowing a gale at the time. The foremast having ...
Article : 98 wordsAs the Channel fleet has experienced one of the heaviest gales that have visited our coasts for many years, a short description of this revolving storm and of the well-being and doings of the fleet may not be ...
Article : 1,060 wordsThe line of rails at Bagillt, on the Chester and Holyhead line of railway, was washed away by the sea on Wednesday morning. The telegraph posts have been blown down, and communication with Holyhead ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Owen Glendower (one of Messrs. Green's Black, wall fleet) put into St. Helen's Roads on Wednesdayevening, with loss of her foreyard. Captain Dickenson reports that the gale in the Channel first showed ...
Article : 380 wordsThe storm was very severe at Minehead. Minehead is beautifully situated on a small bay on the Bristol Channel and in the midst of the most picturesque scenery. The town is divided into three parts, being ...
Article : 1,147 wordsOn Tuesday a very heavy gale from the southward and eastward prevailed in this neighbourhood, and being accompanied in the evening by an extraordinary high tide, has caused considerable damage. The ...
Article : 310 wordsThe gale has entirely abated. The wind is N.N.W., mild, and a fine clear day. We have fortunately no shipping disasters to report on the coast of Northumberland. But the reports that are being received ...
Article : 302 wordsTHE accounts from all quarters tend to show the extensive destruction to property occasioned by the gale of Wednesday, and, unfortunately, the loss of two more lives, and injury to many persons. The vessels ...
Article : 265 wordsThe violent storm of Wednesday morning has caused considerable damage to the shipping at anchor off this place. On Tuesday night there were in Bridgewater Bay a small fleet of coasters, riding there ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Jan 1860, Page 3
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