Identifier: monthlynauti118541855newy (find matches)
Title: Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review
Year: 1854 (1850s)
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Subjects: Shipbuilding
Publisher: New York : Griffiths, Bates
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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er interests and pursuits, has never hada periodical in this country to set forth its true interests as de-veloped by experience. With regard to the casualty of the Arctic, we give the state-ment of Captain Luce, part of which was given in a letter toE. K. Collins. We also furnish a chart of the coast :— The Arctic sailed from Liverpool on the 20th of September, at 11 A M\,with 233 passengers, also with 150 persons composing the officers and crew,in all 383 persons. Nothing of special interest occurred during the passageuntil the meridian of Wednesday the 27th. Eight bells had announcedthe hour of noon, and by observation the ship was in Lat. 46° 45 N. andLon. 52° W., steering W\ by compass, and on the banks of Newfoundland.The weather had been foggy during the day ; generally, a distance of half tothree-quarters of a mile could be seen, but at intervals of a few minutes avery dense fog, followed by being sufficiently clear to see one or two miles. o •* ^ % 0 ► z a w ^ ► k *
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* § \\ \ Loss of the Arctic. 109 At noon I left the deck for the purpose of working out the position of theship. In about 15 minutes I heard the cry of Hard starboard from theofficers of the deck. I rushed on deck, and had just got out when I felt acrash forward, and at the same moment saw a steamer under the starboardbow, and in the next moment she struck against our guards and passedastern of us. The bows of the strange vessel seemed to be literally cut or crushed offfor full ten feet, and seeing that she must probably sink in a few minutes,and taking a hasty glance at our own ship and believing we were compara-tively uninjured, my first impulse was to endeavor to save the lives ofthose on board the sinking vessel. The boats were cleared, and the FirstOfficer and six men left with one boat, when it was found our own ship wasleaking fearfully. The engines were set to work, being instructed to put on the steampumps, and the four deck pumps were worked by the passengers andcrew, and t

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