The Wreck of the "Royal Charter"

The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" - Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter

This little book is prepared under the conditions of saving the Mail which leaves England on the 12th, and of being a complete narrative of the Wreck. The one condition is adverse to the other; but I have endeavoured to meet them both. A telegraphic despatch has reached us as we are going to press, announcing the loss, on her way from Queenstown to Liverpool, of the Royal Charter, with over four hundred passengers on board, of which number only about twenty are saved. The last news was so overwhelmingso unexpected and improbable after the early telegramthat at first it was received with some amount of incredulity. No other paper of that morning but the Times contained the intelligence; and from behind this fact there came a gleam of hope. At about eleven oclock, however, the journals issued as usual their second editions, and then it was the statement in the Times was confirmed, and that the mournfullest piece of news in connection with marine disaster which ever reached this country was generally accepted. The Royal Charter was [Pg 6] lost! Men passed the news from one to another in whispers, shook their heads, and moved on to the newspaper and telegraph offices for later items bearing upon the calamity. The announcement in the first edition of the Times was sad enough. Such details, however, as that journal was enabled to give in its second edition far more than confirmed the early telegram. Instead of only four hundred persons being on board, it appeared there were close upon five hundred, while the proportion of saved was not in the slightest increased. Some of the circumstances grouped around the wreck, too, were now supplied us. The vessel had, after a terrible battle with the storm, in which masts were cut down and much noble life was spent, struck upon the rocky coast of Wales, parted amidships, and gone down not twenty yards from shore, and scarcely four hours sail from Liverpool. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58364
Author: Fowler, Frank
Release Date: Nov 27, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English