*On the 4th of January, 1852, the West-India mail steamer Amazon, two days after leaving Southampton on her first voyage, was destroyed by fire, when 102 persons on board were lost either by burning or drowning.
On the 7th of January, 1852, the Birkenhead troop-ship sailed from Queen town for South Africa, and on the 26th of February she struck upon a rock off Simon’s Bay when 454 out of 638 soldiers and sailors perished.
On the 9th of November the Victoria steam-packet was wrecked off Gothenburg, and many lives were lost.
On the 24th of December, the St. George emigrant steam-ship was destroyed by fire, when 50 out of 150 passengers and crew lost their lives. They were bound from Liverpool to New York.
On the same 24th of December, the Lily was stranded and blown up by gunpowder on the Calf of Man, when 30 persons lost their lives.
