January Shipping Losses Heavy Along United States Coast
January was an unusually fatal month to shipping. The number of vessels belonging to or bound from ports in the United States, reported totally lost and missing, is eighty-four, of which forty-two were wrecked, seventeen abandoned, two burned, four sunk by collision, two foundered, and seventeen are missing. The list includes three steamers, eight ships, eighteen barks, eight brigs, and forty-one schooners. Out of the total number, fifty-three were American vessels. The loss of property alone as reported is very heavy, but the loss of life is also very great. One steamer alone had on board thirty-eight passengers.—Maine State Press.