Tragic Incident of a Wreck
MR. WILLIAM DAVIS, second officer of the steamship Uppinghan, of London, which was wrecked on the north coast of Devon recently, has made a remarkable statement. When the ship's lifeboat…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891
10 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Wrecks at the Macquarie Islands
CAPTAIN FAIRCHILD, of the New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa, has supplied some interesting information regarding the Macquarie Islands, which have acquired a brief celebrity through the…
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A TALE of the sea comes from the Auckland Islands. On January 16 the iron barque Compadre, commanded by Captain Jones, and carrying a crew of 16 all told, left Calcutta bound for Talechuna,…
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A SHIPWRECKED crew was picked up by the steamer Hangchow, which arrived in Sydney last week from Japan and China. On June 24, about 10 o'clock, the lookout of the Hanchow sighted a small open…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY.—The barque Fiji, from Hamburg to Melbourne, is wrecked four miles east of Mount Gellibrand, near Warrnambool, Victoria. A man was discovered by a party of selectors in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wrecked Burque Fiji
AT Melbourne there is a general feeling of indignation at the blunder on the part of the authorities in not sending wo d of the wreck to port Fairy, from which a steamer might have reached the scene in four hours, and would possibly have…
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PROBABLY the most remarkable vessel that has ever crossed the Atlantic arrived on July 22 at Liverpool. This is the screw steamer Charles W. Whetmore. From her peculiar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Ketch Jonathan
FULL particulars are to hand respecting the wreck of the wood ketch Jonathan, 43 tons, at Newcastle, Captain Hagga reports that the vessel left the Tweed River with a cargo of sugar (486 sacks) for the Colonial Sugar Company. Head…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Novel Freight Steamer
A FREIGHT boat drawing but 8in. of water! The craft was built for the Mexican trade, and will be used in the shallow waters of the Mexican country (says the New York Continent). It is built of 1/4in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Wreckers. Straight-out Criticism by "Table Talk" of Melbourne
WHAT reliance can be placed on the statements of some Melbourne mushroom bank directors may be gathered even from the sugared report of the kind-hearted…
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