The loss of the ship 'Northfleet'.1873 |
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Alexander Stephens Alfred de Rothschild anchor ashore assistance blue lights Board of Trade board the Northfleet boat boatswain body Brand Cadiz calamity Captain Harris Captain Knowles Captain Oates cargo Channel City of London collision command committee Coroner crew cries deck Deponent disaster distress Dover Edwin Clark emigrants Folkestone Frederick George Gloack going Gravesend hailed half-past heard Henry Home inquest James January John John Beveridge Knocker land lights and rockets Lloyd's Lord Mayor lugger Lydd main rigging master mate Messrs miles minutes morning Murillo night o'clock officer owners passengers Patton pilot cutter poop port proceeded received Receiver of Wrecks rockets and blue Romney sail Sailors Samuel saved seen ship Northfleet ship's shore signals sinking Spanish starboard steam-tug steamer steamer Murillo sunk survivors Thomas thought told tons took town vessel voyage watch widow William Forster wind witness wreck
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Page 80 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 101 - In every case of collision between two ships it shall be the duty of the person in charge of each ship, if and so far as he can do so without .danger to his own ship and crew, to render to the other ship, her master, crew, and passengers, (if any,) such assistance as may be practicable and as may be necessary in order to save them from any danger caused by the collision.
Page 20 - For there the gallant and the free In his ocean bed lies lowly. Down, down beneath the deep, That oft in triumph bore him, He sleeps a sound and peaceful sleep, With the wild waves dashing o'er him. He sleeps — he sleeps, serene and safe, From tempest and from billow, Where storms that high above him chafe Scarce rock his peaceful pillow. The sea and him in death They did not dare to sever ; It was his home when he had breath, 'Tis now his home for ever. Sleep on — sleep on, thou mighty dead...
Page 101 - ... to render to the other vessel, her master, crew, and passengers (if any) such assistance as may be practicable...
Page 19 - There is, in the wide, lone sea, A spot unmarked, but holy ; For there the gallant and the free In his ocean bed lies lowly.
Page 12 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last above written. My commission expires Notary Public. ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOB CORPORATION. STATE OF 1 _. , / oo...
Page 24 - Hardly had the boat, containing nine persons — the captain's wife, the boatswain, and four labourers, with three of the ship's crew — got alongside the tug, when, by the gleam of the last rocket in the sky and the lights from the tug, the figureheed of the " Northfleet" was seen slowly to sink under water.
Page 86 - ... the coast of Kent, near to the town of Hyta, and proceeded as far as Canterbury, great part of which they burned ; at length Gustavus (then Governor of Kent) raised a considerable force, with which he opposed their progress ; and after an engagement, in which the Danes were defeated, pursued them to their shipping on the sea-coast, where they made a most obstinate resistance. The Britons, however, were victorious, but the slaughter was prodigious, there being not less than thirty thousand left...
Page 10 - By this public instrument of protest be it known and made manifest to all whom it doth or may concern, that on this 8th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1862, before me, Joseph P.
Page 80 - The millennial days, when nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, and learn war no more, are yet, according to all existing indications, far in the future.