Strandings In The Danish Waters 1858-1885

8 tween Kullen and Marstrand, the strandings are specially clustering about the principal trading-ports, but it is a matter of course, that numerous dots are also to be found around such prominent places and reefs as Hallands Väderö, Nidingen, Vinga and Paternoster. Numerous wrecks must inevitably happen on the Isle of Læsô witli its large, surrounding shoals, on the Isle of Anholt witli similar reefs and shal- lows and, on a smaller scale, on the little Isle of Hesselö, all of whicli are bordering on the principal passage through tlie Kattegat; but it should also here be noticed that tliese islands, as well as the opposite Swedish coast, have been liberally provided witli lights, lightvessels and lifeboat stations. Entering now the third district and looking at the coasts of tlie Little Belt, the Great Belt and the Panish north coast of the Bal- tic, there will be found no place conspicuously marked witli dots, no place whicli brings a comparatively large contribution to tlie tale of shipwrecks in these waters, but as places wliere tlie dots are clustering somewhat more thickly than at others, may be named: Revsnæs, the fairway between Samsö and Funen (Even), Romsö, Sprogö, and also the south coasts of the islands of Laaland and Falster. A great many of the strandings, whicli have taken place on the east coasts of Sealand and Möen, many of which resulted in total loss, were owing to tlie flood of 13th November 1872, which exceptional catastrophe caused not less than 160 sliipwrecks on the coasts of Denmark. On the Danish and Swedish coasts, limited to tlie South by a line Stevns-Falsterbo and to the North by a line Gilbjerg Hoved- Kullen, the dots stand in a dense group, but comparatively few of the strandings which have occurred in this fairway liave resulted in total loss. It only remains to make a few observations on the Isle of Born- holm and on the Swedisli coast between Falsterbo and Carlskrona. Upon tlie whole tlie Isle of Bornholm brings a large contribution ot dots, of which, however, but a small part is to be found on tlie coast between Rönne and Dueodde, owing principally to the fact that no ports are to be found liere, and that the principal passage to