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HUMANITY.
The
following
drew the name ble obscurity,
"
and
Grace Darling from
:
its
called into action the
mind and
of her feeling
the account of the event whicfe with-
is
of
momentary impulse
heart, in one
—
hum-
hitherto
whole energies of
Forfarshire steamer, a vessel of about 300 tons
The
burden, under the
command
of
Mr. John Humble,
for-
merly master of the Neptune, sailed from Hull, on her
voyage
to
Dundee, on the evening of Wednesday, the
5th of September, 1838, about half-past six o'clock, with
a valuable cargo of bale goods and sheet-iron;
and
having on board about twenty-two cabin and nineteen steerage passengers, as nearly as could be ascertained
Captain Humble and his wife, ten seamen, four firemen, two engineers, two coal-trimmers, and two stewards in ;
sixty-three persons.
all,
"
The
Forfarshire
was only two years
can be no doubt that her of disrepair.
boilers
old,
state
Previous to leaving Hull, the boilers had
been examined, and a small leak closed up off
but there
were in a culpable
;
but when
Flamborough Head, the leakage reappeared, and con-
tinued for about six hours as the
pumps were
;
not,
however, to
much
extent,
able to keep the vessel dry.
In the
subsequent examinations, the engine-man, Allen Stewart, stated his opinion, that
as bad as
it
was on
he had frequently seen the
this occasion.
The
boiler
fireman, Daniel
Donovan, however, represented the leakage as considerso much so, that two of the fires were extinguished,
able
;
but they were relighted after the boilers had been partially repaired.
retarded,
The
progress of the vessel was, of course,
and three steam
had proceeded
far.
vessels passed her before she
The unusual
bustle on board the
Forfarshire, in consequence of the state of the boilers,