Since vessels were lost in the process, a shortage of materials resulted.
Both vessels were lost with all hands, leaving 16 dead, 8 from each vessel.
It is estimated that since 1800 more than 2,000 vessels and close to 1,000 lives have been lost.
Could a vessel have been lost down here in the ice during the war?
Many vessels were lost, never to be heard from again.
Of this total, 128 vessels were lost during the conflict.
It was in this manner that a vessel had recently been lost.
Yet on average 230 vessels are lost each year, claiming thousands of lives.
The result is that your vessel is lost with all hands.
The company collapsed when its second vessel, the President was lost in 1841.