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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanwix, John 1690- (search)
Stanwix, John 1690- Military officer; born in England, about 1690; came to America, in 1756, as commandant of the first battalion of the 60th, or Royal Americans. He was commander of the Southern District, with his headquarters at Carlisle, Pa., in 1757. In December he was promoted to brigadier-general. On being relieved by Forbes, he proceeded to Albany, and was directed to build a fort at the Oneida carrying-place, on the Mohawk. He returned to Pennsylvania, a majorgeneral, in 1759, strengthened Fort Pitt, and secured the good — will of the Indians. In May, 1760, he resigned his commission to Monckton, and, on his return to England, was appointed lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, and afterwards promoted to lieutenant-general. He also became a member of Parliament. He had served with reputation in the wars of Queen Anne before coming to America, having entered the army in 1706. General Stanwix was lost at sea while crossing from Dublin to Holyhead in December, 176
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
in collision on the Ohio River; fifty-seven lives lost......July 4, 1882 Steamer W. H. Gardner burned on the Tombigbee River, 3 miles below Gainesville, Ala.; twenty-one lives lost......March 1, 1887 Notable wrecks and shipping disasters in foreign waters: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean sea, etc. English ship Jane and Margaret, from Liverpool to New York, wrecked near the Isle of Man; over 200 lives lost......February, 1837 Governor Fenner, from Liverpool to America, run down off Holyhead by the steamer Nottingham, out of Dublin; 122 lives lost......Feb. 19, 1841 Emigrant ship Edmund, with nearly 200 passengers from Limerick to New York, wrecked off the western coast of Ireland; about 100 lives lost......Nov. 12, 1850 Steamship St. George, from Liverpool to New York, with 121 emigrants and a crew of twenty-nine seamen, destroyed by fire at sea (the crew and seventy of the passengers saved by the American ship Orlando and conveyed to Havre)......Dec. 24, 1852 British
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
cylinders are 18 inches diameter and 24 inches stroke, the driving-wheels 8 feet in diameter, the heating surface of the fire-box 153 square feet. D is an express-engine designed by Crampton for the same road. It is adapted for the usual gage. For details of English locomotives, which differ considerably in construction from those used in the United States, the reader is referred to Colburn's Locomotive Engineering. The engines employed on the Irish mail-trains between London and Holyhead weigh 27 tons; the tenders 17 tons, carrying 2 tons of coke and 1,500 gallons of water. The cylinders are of 16 inches diameter and 24-inch stroke. The apparatus for feeding the fuel also provides for the combustion of the smoke. The engine is supplied with water while running, from a trough beneath the rails, from which the water is scooped up by the tank. The cost of a locomotive of this description is nearly pound 3,000. It is said that one of them has been known to run 130 miles i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
and, to Calais, France2530 1851Dover, England, to Calais, France2530 1852Keyhaven to Hurst Castle, England320 1852Holyhead, Wales, to Howth, Ireland6583 1852Port Patrick, Scotland, to Donaghadee, Ireland15160 1852Prince Edward Island to New BruWhitehead, Ireland27150 1854Sweden to Denmark1214 1854*Corsica to Sardinia1020 1854*England to Holland12030 1854*Holyhead, Wales, to Howth, Ireland6580 1854*Spezzia, Italy, to Corsica110325 1854Holyhead, Wales, to Howth, Ireland6583 1855*SardHolyhead, Wales, to Howth, Ireland6583 1855*Sardinia to Africa50800 1855*Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Cape North, Cape Breton74360 1855*Sardinia to Africa1601,500 1855*Varna, Turkey, to Balaclava, Crimea310300 1855*Eupatoria, Crimea, to Balaclava, Crimea6069 1855*Varna, Turkey, to Kilia, Roumaupporting it by chains. The most remarkable one ever constructed is that across the Menai Straits, on the Chester and Holyhead line of railway, and which unites the island of Anglesea with the mainland of Wales. Plate LXXII. is a general view
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 6: the schism.—1840. (search)
sing and novel to me as it was at the prospect of the birth of dear little Georgie. Should I hear good tidings from you, perhaps my Muse may manufacture some verses in honor of the newcomer; though I ought first, in order, to celebrate the advent of my little paragon, Willie Wallie. Well, he shall not be forgotten. I shall love all my children (and mine are thine, dearest), equally well. The Muse, however, observed the law of primogeniture. Fog and a gale retarded the passage from Holyhead to Liverpool, and brought the only perilous moments of the voyage. W. L. Garrison to his wife. June 15, 1840. Monday afternoon. Ms., and Lib. 10.123. 8 o'clock.—Another pilot-boat comes dancing over the waves to the wild music of the gale, and is evidently intending to reach us. Now she makes a circuit around us, having a light skiff or wherry floating at her stern, with the pilot and two or three oarsmen in it, ready to be cast off, that he may be put on board; now it is alon
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
few hours, when, in fact, I was sitting quietly in the cabin, writing a letter to announce our arrival, the wind came out suddenly ahead, and almost at once blew a gale. It was not without much difficulty and tacking all day, that we got round Holyhead and the Skerries, and lay to. But the wind in the night became more violent, we drifted a good deal, and at last were obliged, about four o'clock in the morning, to get under way again. Still the pilot did not venture to approach the mouth of very much, and the time seemed to have been short, when at ten o'clock we drove back to Reading. Miss Mitford mentions this visit in a letter given in her Memoirs. From Reading the route led through Gloucester to the Wye, through Wales to Holyhead, and so across to Dublin, where the party arrived on the 9th of August, in time for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. August 10.—There is a great bustle in Dublin to-day with the opening of the fifth meeti
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
ent of the Confederate States. She was a new ship, with a speed of thirteen knots, high for that time, and was the first to run the blockade directly for the Confederate government. The passengers besides Captain Bulloch were Col. Edward C. Anderson, Messrs. Foster and Moffatt, of Charleston, and Dr. Holland, an ex-surgeon of the United States army. They sailed from Greenock, Scotland, early in October, under the British flag, and with a British captain; collided with an Austrian brig at Holyhead, but fortunately escaped injury, and arrived at Bermuda November 2d. Bulloch then explained to his English crew that his true object was to run the blockade, and that though the ship still flew the British flag, he had a bill of sale for her in his pocket. The captain and crew stood by him in this emergency, and the merchantman was at once transformed into a respectable fighting ship. Pilot Makin, taken up from the blockade-runner Nashville, at St. George, brought them safely to Savannah
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fast traveling. (search)
Fast traveling. --In the Queen's recent journey to Ireland, the total distance from Gosport to Holyhead (310 miles） was accomplished (exclusively of stoppages) in eight and a quarter hours, at an uniform speed of thirty-nine miles an hour.
The Daily Dispatch: September 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Further foreign news. (search)
k a large number of the men employed in fitting up the cabins have been discharged, and that work discontinued; but her fitting out otherwise continues. She will, however, not be ready for sea, without her cabin fittings, for at least a month later than her advertised day for sailing. The Sea Hawk, as the Merlin, appeared in the Nary List as a six gun paddle wheel vessel, of about 1,000 tons and 312 horse power. She was build for the mail service, and was first employed in running between Holyhead and Dublin. She was afterwards employed in carrying mails in the Mediterranean, and subsequently formed part of the West Coast of Africa squadron. She now bears all the usual appearances of a man of war, her shot racks, &c., not having been For some reason a general feeding seems to that she is intended to carry the Confederate flag, and that the tour proposed was only set forth to cover her real destination; but nothing beyond surmises are advanced in support of such a suggestion. An