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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
8 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
SIR,—It [?] and [?] [?] of the New England on the Clarence [?] on the part of three [?] in for greater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Lismore in attempting to cross the bar at 11 o'clock to-day, with heavy sea on, got driven on to the north spit of the north beach, and wentaahore on the outer beach. It is expected the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Closely following the recent accident to the steamer Lismore, another marine disaster has happened, the steamer Richmond, belonging to Messrs. Nipper and See, having grounded to-day whilst crossing the bar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the afternoon of December 16 the Spanish mail steamer San Angustin, Captain Juan, from Manilla to Liverpool, with a cargo of sugar and tobacco, was burned in the Bay of Biscay. The following is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE C. and R. R. S. N. Company's steamer Queen of the South, from Sydney to Kempsey, struck on the Macleay bar at 10 a.m. on Friday last, but was floated off again at 10 o'clock the same night, and came to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A STEAMSHIP disaster[?] which took place recently at the very entrance to Halifax harbour, has been paralleled in horror only once before in the history of shipping catastrophes on the coast of Nova Scotia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE crew of the Edith Carmichael have arrived at Cooktown. They report that on the evening of August 20, the vessel ran on the Eastern Field Reef while sailing at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AFTER the lapse of two years the wreek of the s.s. Now England again engages public attention. When the vessel took the ground on the Clarence bar while crossing out on that memorable day, she drifted but…
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