'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎4] (231/258)

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APPENDIX. A.
1S39. Juno, In tho Bay of Bengal, and off Coring,i.
1839. November. Off Coringa and Madras. A storm wave lays tho shore 8 feet
under water—70 vessels and 700 people lost at sea, 6000 said to have been
drowned on shore.
1839. October 7—10. China Seas.
1840. November 28—30. China Seas.
1840. April 27 and May 1. Violent in the Bay of Bengal.
1840. May. Hurricane off Madras and the southern coast.
1840. September 21—27. In the China Sea, in which the Golcondah, with a
detacliment of the 37th M.N. I., 200 strong, on board, is supposed to have
been lost.
1841. May 16. Madras, great loss of shipping.
1842. September. China Seas.— H. B , p. 243.
1842. May. Dreadful storm prevailed in Calcutta on the 3rd and 4th, by which
every ship, boat, and house, was more or less injured.— H. B.
1842. June 1, 2, and 3. A frightful hurricane visits Calcutta, injuring almost
every vessel in the river, and house in the town and neighbourhood. The baro
meter attains the unprecedented depression of 28 278.
1812. October 5— 6 . Hurricanes betwixt Cuttack and Pooree.
1842. October 22 . Severe hurricane over Madras, and across the Arabian Sea, as
far as Aden.
1842. November 1. In the Arabian Sea.
1813. April 20. Hurricane at the Mauritius, nine vessels driven into Port Louis
more or less injured.
1845. February 22—27. Violent hurricanes at the Mauritius.
1845. November 27—28. Two hurricanes in the China Seas occurred to the
North and South of the Line, almost simultaneously, 13 degrees apart.— II. B , 28.
1845. Ray of Bengal.— H. B , 239.
1816. November 25 — 26. Violent hurricane at Madras, and so across to Manga
lore and Cochin.
1847. April 19. Terrific hurricane from the Line north to Scinde, in which the
H. C. S. Cleopatra is lost, with 150 souls on board. The Maidive Islands sub
merged, and severe want and general famine ensues.
1848. April 23. Violent hurricane offjCeylon, in which H. M.’s brig Jumna,
from Bombay, where she had been built, Was nearly lost; she had an obelisk, and
other most valuable Assyrian marbles on board.
1848. September 12—14. Violent hurricanes in the Bay of Bengal.
1849. July 22 - 26. A violent storm and rain burst all over India; a hurricane
swept the Jullundhur, carrying every thing before it. The barracks of H M.
32nd, at Meerut, and those at Ghazeepore, were destroyed. On the 25th, 10 inches"
of rain fell at Bombay, and in the course of four days 26 inches fell at Phoonda
Ghaut, and 40 inches at Mahableshwar (?)
1849. December 10. Severe hurricane at Madras ; the ships Lady Sale, Indus,
try, and Princess Royal, lost.
1850. December 4. Hurricane at Madras, two European ships and eighteen
country craft wrecked.
1851. May 1 . A furious hurricane raged off Ceylon; a second prevailed at
Madras on the 6 th, sweeping across the peninsula, and sending up a tremendous
swell towards Sinde. ihe ship Charles Forbes, of Bombav, lost in the Straits
of Malacca.
1851. October 20. The hurricane which visited Calcutta and its neighbour
hood on the 22d and 23rd October, did great damage to the shipping offDiamond
Harbour and below Saugor. Two vessels—tho Bengalee, outward bound, and the
Scourfield, inward bound—were wrecked ; the former on Sau°-or Island, and the
latter near Point Palmyras—crews of both vessels saved.