Wreck of the Steamer Centennial at Broughton Island
NELSON'S BAY, Friday.--The steamer Centennial, bound from Sydney to Cape Hawke, went ashore on Broughton Island between 3 and 4 o'clock on Friday all hands…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
69 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
Wreck of the Centennial
The small steamer Centennial, owned by Mr. Andrew Sneddon, proprietor of the Balmain line of steamers, and engaged in the fish trade between Sydney, Newcastle, and Cape Hawke,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner
A CONSIDERABLE amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known the Hereward had become a total wreck a few hours after being successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on a Steamer
During the voyage of the steamer Tyrian from Melbourne to Sydney, a fire broke out on board, and for some time the steamer's safety was imperilled. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Centenial
THE Newcastle Marine Board,Which held an inquiry last Wednesday respecting the loss of the steamer Centenial on Broughton Island on the morning of Friday, the 30th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of The Centenial
NORMAN BAIN, mate of the steamer Centenial, the loss of which,on Broughton Island, on the 30th December, was attributed by the local Marino Board to his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer 50 Years Old
In the lists of steamers offered for sale at home in the British Queen, built by Denny's in 1849, and owned by the Cunard Company. For just on 50 years she has faced the fury of the gale,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Type of Steamer
MR. DONALDSON, of Sydney, has designed a new type of harbour steamer. He says that the vessel constructed from his model will be, absolutely free from the danger of capsizing, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Glen-Huntly. Five Months on Tristan D'acunha
I have had (writes a correspondent of the "Daily News") a long and interesting talk with Max Smith, late cook and steward of the barque Glenhuntly, which sprang a leak in the South Atlantic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Orara
The steamer Orara was wrecked at the Tweed Heads on Thursday. The signals showed 8ft 6in on the bar, while the vessel was drawing 8ft 3in. The bar was in good order, but the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Immense Steamer
THE biggest steamer afloat. On Saturday, January 14, Messers. Harland and Wolf, of Belfast (Ireland), successfully launched the twin-screw steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Freights
Mr. Editor.—The N.C.S.N. Co. are "going up" in freights as regards shipments from Sydney. They simply give small shippers no show whatever; to the great advantage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Regent Murray Ashore
THE barque Regent Murray, from Adelaide, while entering Newcastle on Tuelday morning about 9 o'clock, in tow of the tug Newburgh, cot into difficulties opposite Nobby's. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Channel Catastrophe. an Excursion Steamer Wrecked
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred in the English Channel on Thursday. The mail steamer Stella, belonging to the London and South-Western Railway Company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Shipwreck. 80 Persons Drowned
A cablegram from London on Sunday states that the steamer Stella, on an excursion from Southampton to the Channel Islands with 210 Souls on board, struck the rocks at Alderney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Interest. the Steamer Rosedale
THE steamer Rosedale crossed in at Bellinger Heads, in charge of Captain, Forbes, yesterday (Thursday) morning at 10 o'clock. This is the first trip of the popular steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Accommodation
Mr. Editor.—In your issue of Tuesday appears a letter signed "Traveller," wherein the writer complains of want of accommodation on the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamers—in other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The S. S. Tomki Ashore
A TELEGRAM from Nelson's Buy on Tuesday said:--The steamer Tomki, bound from Sydney, north struck on Morna Point at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning. All…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Disabled Steamer Wollumbin
For three or four days nothing had been seen or hard of the Nicoll line steamer Wollumbin, which wednesday night week was sending up rockets and [?]ning blue lights off Seal Books. She was on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Narrow Escape From Wreck
On Tuesday a wire came that the steamer Tomki was beached, and it was toured that another coastal calamity had occurred. The circumstances were that the steamer, bound from Sydney to the Richmond,…
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