Castletown windmill, IsleOfMan 🌍

Fearful Storm.- Shipwrecks.- The English, Irish and Scotch papers all contain accounts of a fearful storm that swept over the British Islands, destroying property shipping, and lives, in its course. The extent of the marine disasters around the coast, and in the channels, must have been considerable. The ship John P. Whitney, of Philadelphia, ran aground on the sand bank near the entrance of Victoria Channel, and in a few hours went to pieces. The passengers and crew, thirty-two in number, escaped in the ship's two boats, and were rescued by Capt. Webster, of the John Bull steam-tug. The J. P. W. was a new ship, on her second voyage, and was 797 tons.

Amongst other casualties, the result of the storm, we may notice the destruction, by fire, of the windmill at Castleton, Isle of Man. The wind got hold of the sails, and forced round the machinery with such immense force, that the friction set the mill on fire, and the entire building and outhouses were destroyed.

The Liverpool Albion has the following among its records of the storm of February 6 :- "On the Isle of Man so violent was the gale that it led to the well-known windmill at Castletown being destroyed by fire. The wind forced round the sails, and consequently the machinery, with such rapidity that the friction set the mill on fire, and the entire building with its outhouses was consumed."