Petra has found and transcribed the missing Times reports which I will forward to the List to complete the deliberations of the Board of Inquiry for the benefit of anyone interested in the occurrence. All reports are posted with Petra's permission. Geo. From: Petra Mitchinson In June this year I sent a whole series of newspaper transcriptions from The Times relating to the loss of the steamship London. The London sank in a bad storm in the Bay of Biscay on 11th January 1866 on her way from London to Melbourne. 220 passengers and crew lost their lives, among them 10 people from Cumberland; 16 crew and 3 passengers managed to get away in one boat and survived. The disaster happened after a wave tore off the skylight covering the hatchway above the engine room; the masses of water pouring into the ship extinguished the engine fires, leaving her without steam power to work the pumps, and eventually the continuing ingress of water made her sink. This calamity sent shock waves through the nation, particularly as another passenger steamer, the Amalia, sank a day later in the same storm in the Bay of Biscay under very similar circumstances. An inquiry lasting 12 days was held by the Board of Trade, finding no blame with anybody, and of course there was an outcry that the inquiry had not been thorough enough and was designed to protect the shipowners... Unfortunately I had missed out on three articles covering days 2, 3 and 5 of the inquiry. When The Times Digital Archive was available again for free recently, I managed to find those articles, and I have now transcribed them. I apologise for the slightly bizarre numbering of the emails, but this is so that they fit into the chronologically correct place between the emails sent previously. If anybody wants the whole transcription as a Word document of 99 pages, please contact me. Petra