Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1859 — Marine Disaster. [ARTICLE]

Marine Disaster.

The following important item is taken from the Liverpool Post of the :27th ult., a copy of which was obtained by the North American ; “The public will learn with great grief that the splendid vessel Royal Charter, wit totally lost yesterday in Mulla Red Bay near Bangor. The melancholy intelligence, which reuched here last night, was brief, but wo 1 (ear ti*> true. Uptward of four hundred persons were aboard, only ten of whom were saved. There is some hope, howeve •, that the statement is exagerated, but under the circumstances the loss of life, it is to be feared, has been immense. The Royal Ohur - ter hud about half a million in gold on board. VV hen the disaster took place is not known, for the telegraph had ceased work, and so . destructive had Been the storm along the coast, that the Chester & Berkenhead Railway had been destroyed in two places. At Penmonawe twenty bodies of the dead had been washed on shore.’ The bay in which the catastrophe occurred is two or three miles west es Puffin Island, in Argle Sea, and six or seven miles north cf Beatmorer] wUh promontories at oath end of the hay. I Tho country around is w ild and there are but i few houses about.’’