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was lowered containing 25 people. In a heavy sea and with the ship still under way the boat was swamped and all of its occupants drowned. The fire was now such that the engine room could not be reached and so the engines could not be stopped. Symons turned the ship so that the wind was at her stern.
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An enquiry into the ship's loss failed to establish a cause of the fire. The repeated overheating of the engine bearings has been cited as suggesting that the fire may have started in the engine room. However, such overheating might also be expected to cause the engines to seize, whereas they
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The fire spread out of control. The starboard lifeboat rescued the five occupants of the dinghy and tried to approach the ship to rescue more people, but came in danger of being swamped and so abandoned the attempt.
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to prepare for her maiden voyage. She carried 1,000 tons of coal for her bunkers and loaded several hundred tons of cargo. Her strong room contained 500 bottles of
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was brought down as the deck collapsed . Her funnels glowed red-hot and about half an hour later she sank about 110 miles (180 km) west-south-west of the
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Whatever the cause, the fire caused the Admiralty to reconsider its insistence on wooden hulls for mail ships. The next ship that RMSP ordered,
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supervised those UK merchant ships contracted to carry mail, and insisted that they all have wooden hulls. Therefore, RMSP ordered that
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This helped to slow the spread of fire toward her stern, but also maximised her speed and thus the difficulty in launching her boats.
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and at about 12:40 on Sunday, 4 January, smoke was sighted rising from a hatch ahead of her forward funnel. Captain Symons and his
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William Symons, loaded mail, embarked 50 passengers and late that day she sailed for the Caribbean. In the next 24 hours she twice
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Reports of the total number of dead vary from 105 to 115. They included the popular travel writer and novelist
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was still under way, rolling in the heavy sea while Symons and his crew still tried to keep her course steady.
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rescued seven passengers, 17 crew members and a foreman from Seaward and Capel and landed them at
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ships were increasingly common, but RMSP conservatively continued to buy new paddle steamers. The
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was the first of the five sister ships to enter service. In December 1851 she reached
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was lowered but swamped by a wave that washed away all but two of its occupants. The
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on 1 September 1850 at and she was launched on 28 June 1851. Seaward and Capel of
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the heavy sea swung it around and tossed its occupants in the water. A second
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Sorrow on the Sea: An Account of the Loss of the Steam-ship "Amazon", by Fire
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for use in the production of mining explosive in Mexico and £20,000-worth of
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year 1852
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Symons ordered that the engines be stopped and boats launched. The
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was lowered. Before its occupants could unfasten its forward
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was successfully launched and 16 people got away in it. The
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s timbers, partly charred by the fire, drifted ashore at
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MacQueen's Legacy; A History of the Royal Mail Line
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A second Dutch ship, 1797:Maritime incidents in January 1852 263:21 ft 7 in (6.58 m) 42:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 1792:Ships built by the Blackwall Yard 324:top speed 15 knots (28 km/h) 1812:Steamships of the United Kingdom 1807:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean 1758: 1753: 987: 975: 164: 149: 111: 90: 27: 680:, was built with an iron hull. 396:to serve RMSP's routes between 394:Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1: 223:Burnt and sank 4 January 1852 1828: 819:"The Loss of the Amazon". 654:, and the French novelist 380:was a wooden three-masted 169:Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 155:Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 96:Contemporary engraving of 15: 1748: 1735:November (unknown date): 1492: 834:"Shipping Intelligence". 227: 104: 89: 891:. 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