Strandings In The Danish Waters 1858-1885

7 shipwrecked seamen owe their rescue to the intrepidity, hardiness and heroic conduct, which under the most dangerous circumstances have been displayed by the brave men serving our lifeboats. Before leaving this coast, the efforts should be mentioned which by the well-known Em. Z. Svitzer’s Salvage Establishment have been made, to bring stranded ships off the ground, or assist ships in distress on this the most dangerous part of the Danish coasts. The Company’s steamers, always ready to leave port at shortest notice, are stationed at Frederikshavn, Korsör, Elsinore (Helsingör), Copen- hagen (Kjöbenhavn) and Rönne. Now, on -the point of rounding the Scaw, it is but proper to mark the excellent manner in which the same has been lighted, partly by a splendid, fixed light, partly by a lightvessel, stationed at the end of the dangerous Reef, and how it, in its capacity of Signal and Salvage Station lias been provided with all available means for rendering aid and assistance to shipping. After having arrived into the Kattegat, the second of the above-named four geographical districts, we will commence our sur- vey in this fairway by throwing a glance at the east coast of Jutland. All along this coast the wrecks lie somewhat thick togetlier, and the dots are pretty equally distributed until around Hasenöre, naturally clustering round the principal trading-ports and the entrances to tire several friths (fjorde). The greater part of the dots representing total loss are to be found between Skagen and the entrance to the Limfjord, as also to the North and to the South of Fornæs light, while the coasts between the friths of Hobro and Mariager and round Hasenöre have a smaller number of these black dots. In order to follow the coast line as indicated above, the reader will now have to cross the Kattegat to Sjællands Odde, from which point the coast is fringed with dots to Gilbjerg Hoved. The black: dots, as well as those repre- senting a grounding only, are pretty regularly distributed, althougli the greater part of them are to be found round the entrance to the Isefjord, where they gather rather thickly. On the eastern coast of the Kattegat, viz. the Swedish coast be-