Identifier: tragedyofseasors00ellm (find matches)
Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine ..
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: New York, Collins, Keese & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the materials of THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE CREW. 321 which she was herself composed ; and, thirdly, that twenty-three persons should sail eleven hundred miles through atempestuous sea, for thirty days, in such miserable contri-vances, and at last gain a port of safety. Mr. Page obtained a passage to Bombay in the Minerva,which came into Malacca about twenty days after his ownarrival there. The crew of the Fanny consisted originally of sixty-fourpersons, to whom were added seven, making in all 71 Killed by the fall of the mast in the typhoon 1 Died at sea 5 Died on the rocks 1 Poisoned himself in the Lascars float . . 1 Murdered by the Malays 26 Died of the scurvy in the Europeans float . 1 Washed out of the boat 1 Dead — 36The chief mate and his servant went on shoreat tiainan, with four men ..... 6 Ran away with the long-boat 4 Missing — 10 Portuguese taken off the rock 4 Landed at Malacca from the float of Eu-ropeans 20 Landed from the Lascars float .... 1 Preserved — 25 — 71 - The loss of the ship Fanny, wrecked in 1803
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IMAGE from previous story, ship: Fanny. m THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF A LASCAR, WHO WAS WASHED OVERBOARD DURING A GALE IN THE BAY OF BENGAL, AND After swimming thirteen Hours, without any Support,was picked up by a passing Ship; June, 1823. page 321 PERHAPS the hand of Heaven was nevermore conspicuous than in the following narration. In 1823, the ship Valletta,Captain Eraser, on her passage from Calcutta to Penang, where she arrived in distress, on the morning of the 4th of June, picked up a man at sea, who had been struggling with the waves for upwards of thirteen hours, without any support. About 6, A. M., it then being Mr. Dickens's watch, thesecond officer of the ship — at that time a very heavy sea running, the ship under double-reefed topsails and foresail,mizzen-topsail handed, the topgallant-yards upon deck, and the vessel laboring heavily — thought he heard the cries of aman at some short distance from the ship; on looking tothe spot, plainly perceived something floating in the water,which, by the assistance of a good glass, he fou

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