Wreck of a Steamer.--serious Loss of Life
NEWS reached Falmouth on Saturday of the foundering in the Bay of Biscay of the steamship Mary, of and from Glasgow to Trinidad. She encountered a very heavy gale for some…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875
36 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
New Steamer for the Coast Trade
BY an English paper we observe that Messrs. Cunliffe and Dunlop, of Port Glasgow, have launched from their engineering and shipbuilding yard there, a handsome twin screw steamer of about 800 tons B.M.,' and of the…
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WE much repret to have to record the total loss of the above steamer, Captain Fla[?]nk, which left on the morning of the 12th December fur Yokohama. She started about 10[?]0…
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THE following narrative of the loss of this vessel in the Bay of Biseay, as briefly alladed to in our last, is by Cu[?]bert Hogg, the third engineer:—"Weleft Gravesend on the 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wreck of the Miranda. From the Queenslander
THE Marine Board held an enquiry on January 14th. into the circumsances connected with the w[?]ek of the barque M[?]randa at the B[?]unswick River, on the 2th [?]. The members of the Board present, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecks on King's Island. From the Melbourne Argus
A REGISTER has been compiled in the chief harbourmaster's office of the wrecks and serious shipping casualities on the coast of King's Island or the adjacent reefs from the years 1835 to 1875. The first…
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BY the arrival of the steamer Leichardt, we are enabled to give the particulars, respecting the loss of the Gothenburg, gleaned, from the joint statements of those rescued by the Leichardt…
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WE learn from a private telegram received in this city, that the schooner Annie Ogle has become a complete wreck on a portion of the coast not mentioned. She was a vessel of some 210-tons burthern, commanded by…
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Wednesday morning.—After eight hours' incessant downpour we encountered a heavy gale, the barometer falling to 29 260, the lowest figure at which it has stood for twelve…
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IT commenced to rain on Wednesday, 3rd instant, and continued during Thursday with slight intermission. On Fiiday the rain become heavier, and the river rose 4 feet. During Friday night there was a…
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THE schooner leader, from Palermo, arrived at Cardiff on January 11th, bringing with her four of the survivors of the Cortes, of London, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on December…
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POLICE COURT proceedings are rare in the annals of King's Island (says the 'Argus,') and perhaps the first magisterial investigation over held there, took place in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Wreck of the Helen M'gregor. to the Editor of the Examiner
SIR,—I suppose heroism, like virtue, is its own reward, and that the plucky net of the waterman, who with two aboriginals, was the first to board the Helen M'Gregor lost Friday, when in her perilous position…
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Although we are just now fervently thanking God that we have not to lament the loss of any human life on the river during the flood, alas for poor travellers on the stormy sea, we fear for some that we cannot include them in our…
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TELEGRAMS in the 'Herald' state:--"On Saturday fears were entertained for the safety of the barque St. Magnus, which arrived from Adelaide, with a cargo of Hart's flour, at Cape Moreton, On Tuesday night, and…
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THE following (says the 'Brisbane Courier') is Mr. Putwain's report of his visit to the Gothenburg steamer:--Left Bowen on the morning of Sunday, March 7th, at 6 a.m., in the A. S. N…
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BY the arrival of the Tagus, at Plymouth, details are to hand of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company's steamship Nile, Captain R. Revett,…
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[?] [?](s.). from Rockhampton, arrived at midnight last night, and Captain Nighting[?]ll reports that at 2 p.m. on [?]riday afternoon, the 19th instant, in xi 28 degrees [?] minutes south, longitude 153 degrees 2[?] minutes ca[?]t,he saw a…
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THE 'Herald' states: -- "The Fiona, a fine-looking steamer, built to the order of the Colonial Sugar Company, by Messrs. Humlett and Dunlop, of Glasgow, arrived on Monday last, having made the passage in 87…
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THE increasing necessity for effecting communication between distant places in foreign countries by means of water transit has, where such means of transit exists, led to a demand for…
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