| Show the wreck of the koyal charter by the city of baltimore we received brief accounts of the wreck of the screw steamship royal charter and the fearful loss of life involved therein we are now dow in in possession I 1 of graphic and copious details of the sad dd cal calamity amit it appears that tle the royal roal charter NN when ben within two or three hours sail 1 of Liverpool after a rapid lapid passa passage froni from Af melbourne elbourne experienced the f till full fur fury of a terrible burth cast gale which prevailed all over england during the night of the all and d alt the steam power po er of the vessel being merely auxiliary it was insufficient I 1 1 to prevent her from being dm en n towards the shore and as the water was rapidly rapid ly secal ng ng it became necessary at about abou t ton ten at night to let go the anchors guns guns it having av illg been previously fired and charged in in the hope of attracting a pilot ilot but without nhoun success the gale meantime increased to a perfect hurricane and at atto two in in the morning the port anchor chain P parted arted and shortly afterwards the I 1 ship was bealing on the rocks in a place called Alu elfra bay near puffin island on the coaston anglesea tiie the masts were cut away an ay but with out any beneficial results I 1 1 about daylight six six a sai sai j lor with a cord tied around his waist jumped overboard and although the sea ran tremendously high he succeeded 1 cee dedin in reaching and maintaining a footing on the rocky shore which N hick was not more than ten yards distant f from rom the ship but was almost perpendicular cular to the height of forty feet I 1 A hawser was then got ashore and a boatswain chair was as attached to it with a view bew or or hauling the passengers I 1 and crew on shore about abo it a dozen seamen were by this means soon lande dand it was hoped that all on ell board boar d majba be saved at abouav seven however the waves beating against the ships broadside with continued violence she suddenly snapped amidships and tumbled pieces As the p passengers ass eDgers had mostly kept below large numbers were killed by the crashing debris ana ami only twenty six managed to get ashore making the whole number of saved aed only th thirty il iy nine nine out of 1 r era ay 1 crew of the scene was terri terrible blein in the extreme many mank were washed on and off the rocks several times and in in numerous ansta nees those who thought them elves secure on the jutting rocks were hurled back into the sea by the furious waves a superior was neither a woman nor a child captain taylor exerted himself to the utmost but was fina finally lly struck on the head abile struggling in in the wa 1 ter by a boat falling from the davits and was seen no nio more rd the destruction of the was mas rapid and complete so that by e ight eight 0 clock noth nothing irig was visible but masses of wreck mingled with bodies of the dead washed on the strand the prostration of the telegraph voires wires and the abe destruction by the sea of a portion of the chester and holy head railroad which passes the locality ca aused consider considerable ba e delay in in the reception of the news at liverpool and a bon consequent sequent loss los i of time in in sending tug boats to the spot the vessel had on board supposed ounces of gold besides a n umber number of sovereigns estima t ted ed of the to t il value of to and hopes were entert entertained a i n that this might be recovered by divers the royal charter was an iron vessel of 2749 tons reister register clipper built and furnished with auxiliary hary screw engines she wa was built in in 1855 1955 at a coshof over and a sin for her P general caro cargo was not very valuable say of the persons person 3 on board the royal charter when she left sixty three were cabin passengers other passengers and ere crew 7 total of these seve seventeen n teen ers were landed at queens queen town and thirty nine aine were saved from the wreck so that the toLI tot J loss of life was kvas among these theo reckoned as the crew were eleven riggers who were transferred from a tug boat to the royal charter in t n the channel for conveyance conAe yance to liver liv er pool insurances were being effected at lloyds on the bullion at twenty five per cent premi premium tiffi i |
