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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
24 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
WE regret to have to record the total wreek of the Clarence and Richmond River Company's paddle aseamer Agnes Irving, but fortunately no lives have been lost. The ship took her departure from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS new river boat, built ot the order of Messrs. Henderson and Mansfield, of the Clarence River Stores, arrived at Grafton yesterday at 4 p.m. From her report it will be seen that she has had rather a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. John Burns, of the Cunard Company, writes to the Times that he and his partners have just concluded a contract with Messrs. James and George Thompson by which that firm is to build on the Clyde, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I WAS a passenger by the above vessel when she came to the end of her career in a manner unexpected as it was sudden. After a quick and enjoyable voyage of 24 hours exactly, she…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE directors of the Clarence and Richmond Rivers Steam Navigation Company having for some time past felt the need of a light drought and handy stermer with which to carry on their trade, decided some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WRECKS which have occurred on the northern coast of New South Wales during the year 1879:â February 13âBallina, steamer, Captain Bedford C. and R. R. S. N. Co., owners; cargo, grain and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Wanganui, under charter to Messrs. Nipper and See, arrived at Grafton on Monday night last. She is an iron screw steamer of 180 tons. For the last few years she has been employed in the New Zealand trade, between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Wanganui, steamer, Captain Thomas Bayldon, in crossing in last night, at 11.30 o'clock, struck on the reef. The whistle was resorted to, also blue lights…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE was considerable excitement in Grafton on Monday morning last, when the news was telegraphed from the Clarence Heads, that the steamer Wanganui, commanded by Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LLOYD'S telegram of Saturday's date, May 8, says—"The American (s.) from Southampton to the Cape of Good Hope, with mails of 8th foundered close to the Equator on 23rd April,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE downfall of the First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt., and President Waite's systematic rascalities, will probably continue to agitate the town and the county until the examination is finished and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sorata went ashore near Cape Jervis, in consequence of the falling tide, but it is believed she will get off as it rises. It is believed that there is plenty of assistance, as the steamers Woonoona and Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE Monday. -- The ADVERTISER'S reporter telegraphs from Cape Jervis as follows: -- "The three midship compartments of the Sorata are full of water, the tide flowing in and out the immense hole in the ship. All hope of getting the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT was not until late on Saturday afternoon that it became known in Melbourne that the wreckage seen by the steamar Dawn, from Portland, was that from a large ship bound for Molhourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE hopes that were entertained on Saturday that the steamer Sorata would get off the reef with the rising tide have not been realised, and yesterday morning, at ll o'clock, it was announced that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is a novel steamboat now building at Nyack, under the superintendence of Mr. William Voorhis, of that place, formerly commodore of the New York Yacht Club…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Thursday -- Captain Quinn, Harbour Master at Port Adelaide, has sent the following report of the accident to the Sornia. He states:-- "In consequence of a telegram from his Excellency the Governor I took passage in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PASSENGER writing to a friend in Christchurch, New Zealand, gives the following account of the narrow escape of the ship Waimete, off Cape. Horn:— "London, July 1880.—We made a splendid passage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most disastrous accidents which ever took place in the neighbourhood of Berwick-on-Tweed occurred on Aug. 10 to the train known all over the country as the "Flying Scotchman." The train,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS vessel left Newcastle on the morning of September 19, coal laden, for Yokohama, with fine weather and a north-casterly wind. On that evening the ship was pumped out, but next morning, at 6 o'clock, it…
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