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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
23 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
THE Mary Ann, schooner, 100 tons, Captain Stephens, which vessel left Newcastle on the 9th ultimo, with a cargo of coal, for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company arrived off the Clarence Heads on the 13th ultimo, but owing to the strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE London Daily Telegraph, of Octobor 12th, devotes a leader to the story of poor Marr, whose heroic conduct and death in connection with the pilot schooner Rip, off Queenscliff, created so great a sensation. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROCKHAMPTON, JANUARY 23RD.—The steamer James Paterson was totally wrecked at Masthead Reef at midnight on Wednesday. The chief officer arrived at the pilot station, Keppel Bay, about ten o'clock to-night in the lifeboat, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are this week fulled upon to chronicle the loss of another vessel at the Richmond River Heads. It appears that the brigantine Australia, 124 tons, Captain Watson, of and bound to Sydney, with a cargo of [?]ne, in attempting to leave that port at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following report of the running on a reef of the steamer Macgregor has been kindly prepared by Captain J. S. Ferris, of the Tartar (s.):—"Thu Tartar (s.) left her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The A.S.N. Company's steamer Koomerang stranded on King's Reef, twenty-five miles north of Cardwell, Queensland. Her fore hold ls full of water. The Rangatira steamer has been ordered to proceed from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fearful shipwreck occurred on the north side of King's Island, in Bass's Strolls, on the 23rd May. The ship British Admiral, 1700 tons, ninety days out, from Liverpool, and bound to Melbourne, struck on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY the arrival of the Peninsula and Oriental steamer Venetia, which left Gib[?]tar on March 18th, we have received particulars of the wreck of the British steamship Queen Elizabeth, and the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER tale of disaster comes to us from over the sea. We have intelligence that the Iron-bound western coast of King's Island proved fatal, on Saturday, the 23rd ultimo, to one of the line fron clipper ships coming to this harbour from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM Point Netherby to Fitzmaurice Bay, a distance of nearly fifteen miles, thE beach was lined with fragments of the cargo and traces of the wreck, indicative of the fearful amount…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By telegram from Queensland we have the tidings of another disastross wreck, viz., the Eastern and Australian Mail Company's steamer Flintshire, 400 tons, Captain Sturrock, with the European mails, cargo and passengers from Batavia, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE steamer Flintshire from Batavia 15th instant, with a large number of passengers and a full cargo of eastern produce, had prosecuted her voyage successfully, until she arrived at Townsville on Monday. Shortly after taking her departure again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The announcement that the E. and A. Mail Company's steamer [?]leddah, which left Sydney for Melbourne early on Wednesday morning, with part of her original cargo, was on fire in her fore compartment, was circulated throughout the city on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON the evening of September 10th Townsville was in a state of ferment. No mail steamer! Somehow a fixed impression prevailed among the townspeople that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is rumoured that the steamer Macgregor has been chartered to take the outgoing English mails via California. Colonel Richardson, Commandant of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Information has been received in Sydney, that prior to the annexation of the Fiji Islands to Great Britian, a deep-laid plot by Tui Cakau, chief of the Cakaudrovi territory, in Fiji, had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner "Triumph," which had as cargo a large shipment of potatoes, for Adelaide, from Portland, in Victoria, has been discovered bottom up in Discovery Bay, Rear Portland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE understand, that Messrs WINGATE AND CO. of Glasgow, the builders of the stea[?]ship New England, have just laid down to the order of the C. and N. E. S. N. Company, a really mag[?]ent twin-screw steamer for the Clarence River trade. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS vessel, intended to obviate sea-sickness in the passage across the Channel, is vapidly approaching completion. The ship is 350ft long at the water-line, and for 48ft at each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson and suite, accompanied by Lady Robinson and the Fijian Prince--Ratu Timoci--visited the Sydney Mint and Darlinghurst Gaol, on Friday…
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