Wreck on the Westralian Coast. Wednesday Night
A telegram from Perth states that the wreck of a big ship is reported from Cloates Point. The name of the vessel is unknown but it is believed she was bound for China…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
69 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 4
Disastrous Wrecks. on the Australian Coast. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
THE headkeeper of Cape Borda Lighthouse (South Australia) telegraphed yesterday morning that a young lad named G. O. May had just arrived from Rocky River, on the south side of…
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WILLIAM MITCHELL, who was found by the search party from Cape Borda, accompanied the steamer Euro on her search for the wreck of the Loch Sloy. He…
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THE best shipping authorities are still of opinion that the missing steamer Perthshire is afloat and drifting north wards. They argue that it she founded or was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck at Maroubra Bay. the Union Co's Tekapo Ashore
ON Tuesday morning at about 3.30 to 4 o'clock the Union S.S. Co.'s fine vessel the Tekapo, bound for Port Kembla, went ashore in a dense fog on the rocks on the…
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THE chief officer of the cargo steamer Ribston (now at Dunedin) Mr. J. W. Robinson, has supplied the "Otago Daily Times" with the following interesting…
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THE Marine Board held an inquiry into the stranding of the steamer Tomki, which occurred on May 2 off Morna Point. Captain Paulson, master of the Tomki, stated that she left…
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The fog on Tuesday morning was responsible for the stranding of two fine steamers—one in the vicinity of Newcastle, and the other a few miles south of Sydney Heads, At least,…
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On Tuesday, at about 4 a.m., the Union Co's, fine vessel the Tekapo, bound for Port Kembla, went ashore in a dense fog on the rocks on the southern side of Maroubra Bay, about 1½ mile from the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saturday's Wires. The Missing Steamer Perthshire. a Broken Tail-shaft. Sydney, Saturday Night
THE great anxiety which has been felt in regard to the missing steamer Perthshire, now 24 days out from Sydney to the Bluff, was allayed this morning by the…
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THE great anxiety which has been felt in regard to the missing steamer Perthshire, now 24 days out from Sydney to the Bluff, was allayed this morning by the news that the vessel had…
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THE adventures of the steamer Perthshire, now drifting helplessly about mid-ocean, is full of sensational interest. It is now several weeks since the steamer left Sydney for New Zealand. Which she did not…
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Where is the Perthshire? The question is exciting the keenest interest throughout Australia. Tuirfcy-five days out to-day, she was bound for New Zealand, and save by a…
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EARLY this morning the steamer Lindus, bound from Melbourne to Newcastle, went ashore on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle. She is now lying in a dangerous…
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ON Thursday the barque Northern Chief, bound from Kaipara (N.Z.) to Sydney, was spoken off Newcastle, and reported having been in company with the steamer Perthshire on May 25th,…
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DURING the past week Mr. George Shore, of London House and All Nations' store, who is on a visit to Sydney, purchased the steamer Atlauta, to run as a passenger steamer in…
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The loss of the Stella when crowded with passengers, many of whom went down with her, must have been a really terrible affair. The vessel was crossing the English Channel, and was lost on the…
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THE Duckenfield, which was out since May 16th searching for the Perthshire, returned to Sydney on Thursday without having seen her. The warship Mildura has been ordered out from…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY NIGHT.—The steamer Perthshire, which left Sydney for the Bluff, New Zealand, 53 days ago, returned to port this morning in tow of the Union Company's…
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If the writer could not be the captain of the Perthshire he would like to be in command of the Talune. On second thoughts he would much prefer the latter, as apart from…
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