Show statistics OF WRECKS the following is the tho awful summary of or 1851 52 the wrecks of british and foreign vessels on tile the coasts and seas of the united kingdom were 68 1 of these were total wrecks sunk by leaks or collision 84 stranded and damaged eo so as to require the discharge of cargo abandoned 16 total wrecks total lives lost in the year 1851 the wrecks on our coast were of these were total wrecks or sunk flunk and abandoned and stranded or damaged dama ed 0 so o as to require the discharge of cargo the number of lives lost as far as could be ascertained was the most disastrous portion was the month of september and in the heavy storm of the and of that month vessels were stranded while during the month the whole hoie hole number amounted to or more than five a day thus affording additional proof of the ne necessity e t y of f m making 0 k thola the u utmost t trost e efforts to tle the avert so essis essia much rei rex c calamity a la m but t the pas past t year 1852 52 h hrs has far L exceeded C ee d d in respect to to shipwrecks the two former periods in amount and fatality no less than 1100 vessels having been wrecked on the shores of the british isles and the number of lives lost as far as could be ascertained beino being about tho the greatest havoc took place about about the latter end of last october and begin beginning ong of november inthis in this interval no less than ships ship sought refuge in the humber many more however howver howyer could reach no shelter and thus in the course of a few days the u unprecedented I 1 lp r ece dented number of vessels were lost loster or damaged with the fearful los loss of 20 lives the greater part of this terrible work of destruction took place on the east coast of england off flamborough Flam borough head lex tex ex |