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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
14 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
The schooner Mary Bannatyne entering on Wednesday last, met a heavy southerly squall which drove her on the north spit inside the bar. After about 40 tons of coal had been jettisoned, she came…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Guion steamer Abyssinia, with the United States mails arrived in Liverpool from New York. She brought particulars of the wreck of the schooner Crissie Wright and the loss of all her crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Tairon, trading between Wellington and Lyttleton, was lost at the month of the Wairau River. All hunds reported to be lost. SYDNEY, MONDAY NIGHT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT appears that the Union Company's steamship Taiaroa, 438 tons register, under the command of Captain Thompson, left Wellington on Sunday for Lyttelton. The offices of the company being closed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOSEPH MERCIER and Alexander Emmer, two further survivors of the ill-fated French barque Guichen, which was wrecked some time since on Bird Island, a rocky cliff off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquestion the bodies washed up from the wreck of the Ly-ee-moon has commenced at Green Cape, Captain Webber, in giving evidence, statod that he considered the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE story of the disaster is cold graphically in the fallowing words, by one' of the passengers:- The Ly-ee-Moon left Melbourne at noon on Saturday. All went well till Sunday ovening…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE wreck of the Ly-ee-moon is one of those disasters which comes within the denomination of preventable, and it is indeed very sad to have to say so when the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. WHELAN and Mr. Walter were the only men in the surf when the mast fell with the first survivors. Whelan saved six and Walter two. Walter was also holding…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—One cannot read Rev. Mr. Poole's account of the disastrous wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon, and of the agonizing suspense on the wreck for hours waiting for a rope to be sent from the shore, without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six divers are now constantly at work on the Oregon, steam pumps being used to supply them with air. Each man remains under water from a half hour to an hour at a time. By the end of that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE WEATHER ON THE COAST.—The report on the shipping board, yesterday, stated that there were strong south-east winds, with dull cloudy weather, and moderate sea, on the coast. Clarence bar 13 feet at high water, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE was mach excitement in town on Thursday morning, caused by the news received by telegram from Yamba, through Captain Magee, of the City of Grafton, andaubccqaently from the Telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The s.s. Brunswick, from Sydney bound to the Manning was lost on the Manning bar on Saturday. All hands are saved, but the vessel is a total wreck…
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