'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎12] (115/496)

The Sivithamley (No. 4) was in Lat. 12° 22 / N., Long. 70° 15 / E.,
under double-reefed topsails, with a gale at N.W. to W,N.W.
The Mermaid (No. 8) was in Lat. 13° 52 r N., and about Longi
tude 74° E., with the hurricane decreasing at W.S.W. In the course
of the previous twenty-four hours, this unfortunate vessel, after having
lost her topmasts, was obliged to cut away her mizen mast; and with
five feet water in the hold, and the pumps constantly going, she was
compelled to run N.W. before the “ increasing gale (at South) ac-
u companied by heavy rain, thunder and lightning, and a tremen
dous sea running, and causing the ship to labour and roll heavily.
During the twenty-four hours the wind veered from S.E. by South
to W.S.W., and the Barometer was down to 29.40.
In shore, the Victoria (No. 5) "was lying to, drifting with a
“ Southerly” storm along the coast from Cannanore towards Manga
lore. She had the Barometer at 27.70, and “strong gales with
“ heavy rain, severe squalls, and an increasing swell, caused the vessel
“ to labour greatly.”
The Faize Bubahny, (No. 2) at noon, was in Lat, 15° S., and
Long. 73° 28 / E., with the storm at S.E. to South. Since the 17th,
she had been scudding before it to the Northward till 6 A. M., when
she was hove to. Her log-book conveys a fearful picture of the state
of the weather, and of the injuries done to the vessel by “ the violent
“ squalls and tremendous sea,” while the water was entering her sides
at the rate of thirty inches per hour. The topsails were blown out
of the halt-ropes, the quarter boat washed away, and the long boat
carried out of the chocks.
In the course of the twenty-four hours ending at noon on this day,
the Buckinghamshire (No. 1) had been scudding N.N.W., between the
focus of the storm and the land, and was running in a direction nearly
parallel to that of the storm’s, but the line of coast obliging her to
keep a good offing, her course was necessarily changed to N.W., which
gradually hi ought her nearer to the greatest danger; and as her
speed appears to have been greater than that of the progressive
movement of the focus, she arrived nearly in front of it, at noon,
when, in about Lat. 15° 10', Long. 73° E., she had the hurricane from
S.E,, and with the gale blowing furiously, and veering 1 to the east,
the fore and maintopsails, and foresail, were blown away.