Wreck of the C. C. Funk
THE barquentine C. C. Funk, bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne with timber, was wrecked about the 1st of August in Bass Straits. Of thirteen persons on board, eleven were drowned,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898
28 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2
Steamer Communication with Brisbane. Coff's Harbour and Grafton
Mr. Editor.—When Grafton was laid out and surveyed, it was believed that a city like Melbourne and Sydney, or at least, like Adelaide and Brisbane, would grow up. In the first…
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THE American wooden steamship Deleware, 1279 tans net, of Philadelphia. belonging to Messrs. W.P. Cylde and Co., was destroyed by fire on the night of July 7 when off New York. As…
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The N.C.S.N. Co. intend making adequate provision for the requirements of the Clarence trade, and have deputed their superintending engineer to visit the old country to supervise the building of a new…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY.—The Union steamer Mapowrika was wrecked when entering the river at Greymouth on Saturday. The passengers, crew and mails were saved…
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MR. BUCKLE'S new steamer. " The Nambucca" steamed into the Nambucca Heads last week She unloaded some back freight there and her advent was celebrate in style…
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MR. G. W. NICOLL'S new steamer Orara, recently built for the Tweed River trade, was taken on, a trial trip down Sydney harbor on Saturday week. The steamer was greatly…
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ON Thursday the Government dredge tender Little Nell foundered near Redhead, on her way from Sydney to Newcastle, The master, Captain Bastian, and Mr. Peter Kemp, father of…
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