'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎44] (61/258)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY.
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Total Wrecks.—
12
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4 natives.
Forfarshire, Suffina
Tulla, Jafer, G. R.
Cle>k, Sir Jamsetje*
Jejeebhoy and Phlox.
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23,000
2,166,330
46,500
12,740
33,710
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W . H. G. Dunlop,
Superintendent of Water Police.
The damage sustained by the thirteen square rigged vessels, and the twelve vessels of the
Honorable Company large an d small, it will be observed, is still unknown ; but if the loss sus
tained by the Wative Craft alone amounts to 24,79,935 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (£247,993); we may,at a reasonable
calculation, put down that of the large ships and steamers as twice as much; which, with the
merchandise which was recovered but partially damaged, will amount to nearly the amount we
first set it down at, viz., a crore Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees). of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (one million sterling). One hundred and forty-five
vessels are total wrecks, and fifty-six more or less damaged. The number of lives known to be
lost is one hundred and fourteen ; but judging from the number of vessels total wrecks, and the
proportion of bodies picked up by the Police, we should say nearly a thousand human beings
must have perished. We do not think the whole history of storms could furnish a parallel to
the Cyclone of the 2nd November,—its terrible effects being felt both by sea and land.
Half the native craft might have been saved had warning been given before
sunset, when the signs of the hurricane were unmistakeable. £120,000 with
50 lives at least were sacrificed on the shrine of slighted science.
Hurricanes seem to visit Bombay periodically, but at very distant intervals,
the earliest on record is that of May 25th 1647—when we had a furious thun-
der-storm and earthquake. In April 1782, a violent hurricane swept the Gulf
of Cambay, accompained by a dreadful inundation—probably the storm wave:
our notices of this are so scanty, that it is impossible to say whether it was a
^Qo 0ne J ° r - merely a lo . cal gale ; the next two occurre d on the 5th of November
1783 and 1 /99 respectively, when on both occasions many ships were lost, and
m the latter of these above two hundred Native vessels foundered or w T ere