[?]ost Steamer
The s.s. Fitzroy was a steel screw steamer of 620 tons gross register, and a few months ago she was purchased from Messrs. Langley Bros…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921
322 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 17
Search for Missing Steamer
The Commonwealth authorities have declined to send out a warship to search for the missing steamer Canastota, on the grounds that the New Zealand Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S.S. Fitzroy Wrecked. Steamer Founders off Cape Hawke Coffs Harbor Residents Missing. Serious Loss of Life [?]ared
"The Fitsroy's wrecked!" Resideuls looked blankly at one another when the fateful news was passed from mouth to mouth on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. (By Wire.) The Steamer Capsizes. Gallant Passengers and Crew. Feared Only Four Survivors. Sydney, Tuesday, noon
The appalling tragedy that overcame the Fitzroy cannot be properly reslised from the simple stories told by the survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scene of the Wreck
Cape Hawke is approximately half-way between Sydney and Coffs Harbor. The nearest settlement of any size is Forster, situate at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain James Colvin. Experienced Several Wrecks. Great Battler for His Men
Captain Jas. Colvin the master of the Kitzroy, was held in wide esteem in shipping circles. He was essentially a man of action, resource, and courage, and he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Jack Wreckage. Beach Strewn Near the Manning. Taree
A message from the Old Bar states from Farquhar Park to a point 5 miles south of the Old Bar pavilion the beach is strewn with lost of tangled wreckage. Guncotton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beach Strewn with Wreckage. a Destroyer Searching. Sydney, Tuesday Night
A message from Old Bar, Manning River, states that for five miles the beach is strewn with wreckage from the Our Jack. The wreckage is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foundering of the Fitzroy. The Deck Cargo Shifts. and the Steamer Capsizes. Seas Extinguish The Fires. Bosun's Superhuman Feat. In The Water For Thirteen Hours. No Trace of Any Further Survivors. the Latest Information. Sydney
The latest information obtained from Taree is that there are no further signs of any survivors from the Fitzroy. The position therefore seems to be that there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Canastota. All Hope Abandoned. Believed Foundered with All. Auckland N.Z.
Official circles consider that the Canastota is lost, and that there is little hope of there being any survivors. The search steamer has returned from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. the Recent Wrecks
Our Bellingen correspondent writes:-- The, news of the wreck of the two boats,Fitzroy and Our Jack, cast a gloom over: Bellingen for, quite a time. Local…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Kiama. Anxiety Accentuated. Lifebuoy Washed Ashore. Police Searching Beaches. Destroyer Patrolling. Sydney
Although the fury of the cyclonic storm has abated at Sydney, the cyclone is still raging over the Southern areas. The Kiama has not yet arrived,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Engine Wrecked. Melbourne
While several men cat Newport (Victoria) railway workshops were lifting a hundred ton engine with an overhead crane, the cable broke, and the locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hyde Park a Wreck
The police state there was so much do bris blown about the city and suburbs last night as to cause men to fear being injured. Many street hoardings were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Family's Predicament. Buildings Wrecked
At North Sydney a number of houses were unroofed. In one instance a mother and father and five little ones, one of whom is suffering from a severe illness,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wollongbar. Almost a Hopeless Wreck. Sydney
The N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Wollongbar, which is ashore at Byron Bay, is now almost a hopeless wreck. At a meeting of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Fitzroy
The cast-off siren, sounded, the last good-byes were said, And the ship Fitzroy, to Sydney bound, on her fatal trip has sped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wollongbar Wreck
The steamer wollongbar, which was stranded at Byron Bay recently, was considerably knocked about by the rough weather during the week-end. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wollongbar. Abandoned to Underwriters. to Be Sold As a Wreck. Sydney
The stranded Wollongbar was formally abandoned to the underwriters yesterday. She will probably be offered by auction where she lies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Colliboi Sold
The Tasmanian Premier has announced that his Government had purchased the steamer Colliboi from the New South Wales Government for…
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