Page:Loss of the Comet steam-boat on her passage from Inverness to Glasgow, on Friday the 21st October, 1825.pdf/19

 Eleven bodies, (four men, five women), two children, were washed on shore on Friday the 21st, and by the exertion of the boats afterwards employed in, the following were found.

On Saturday the 22nd, fourteen men and five women; on Sunday the 23rd, ten men and two women; Monday was stormy; on Tuesday the 25th; two men; on Wednesday the 26th, one man, a woman, and a girl; on Thursday the 27th, one man; Friday the 28th, Mrs Cap. Sutherland and Mr. Alister. Betwixt this period and the 11th November; six bodies have been found; which, with eight individuals known to be amissing, produce the melancholy amount of sixty-five persons drowned, out of the whole passengers and crew, only thirteen have been saved.

After the 28th several days of stormy weather interrupted the trawling, arrangements were made for raising the Comet; an operation for which the relatives of persons missing were most anxious,  which was not at that time effected.

nine months had elapsed since the unfortunate occurrence of this catastrophe, and although the attempt to raise the Comet at this time had failed, yet another attempt to raise this ill-fated vessel was, beginning of July, projected, and successfully executed. An account of the operations and proceeding, incident thereto, we extract from the Newspapers of the day.

operations for raising this vessel having drawn their completion, since the comencement of the week th July much interest regarding it has been excited, and numbers have been daily attracted to the spot to