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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
79 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 4
While the R.M.S. Merkara was being towed up the river the steering chains parted, and the at earner drifted ashore where she is now stuck hard and fast. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore at the Chatham Islands. The debris includes a life-buoy, with the letters S.S.A.Y. on it. It is believed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further particulars are to hand from Murwillumbah respecting the wreck on the Sutherland Reef, reported yesterday. The Commissioner of Customs has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later particulars from the scene of the wreck of the steamer Alberta state that all hopes of saving the vessel are gone. The seas are breaking over her, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further information from the wrecked steamer Alberta states that it is not the captain that is ill, but the pilot. Three days prior to the disaster the pilot was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News has been received of the wreck of the brigantine Nautilus in the Panmotti Archipelago on June 27. The captain and crew were saved, bot they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram from Bulli states that another attempt at wreckage, similar to the preceedings at Woonona, has been perpetrated on the Bulli colliery tram…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram from San Remo States that the steamer Age has been disabled off King's Island. Ten of the crew landed at San Remo with information of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There are no tidings yet of the steamer Age, which was recently reported disabled. The Pateena, from Launceston, kept a sharp lookout, but saw no traces of her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Swan Island states that a boat with 9 men has arrived there from the disabled steamer Age. She is anchored on the west sida of Flinders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible disaster has occurred off the American coast. The Spanish steamer Vizcaya came into collision with another vessel whose name is not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Low Heads states that the disabled steamer Age was towed out of Kilicrankie Bay, Flinders Island, where she had come to anchor, by the tug…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News, has been received of the foundering of H.M.S. Serpent off the coast of Spain, with terrible loss of life. The Serpent was a third-class…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The survivors of H.M.S. Serpent state that the officers had no idea that the vessel was close to the rocks, and thought the compasses had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Walgett says that the steering gear of the steamer Sturt broke while the boat was proceeding down the Barwon River on Sunday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seventy fishing smacks have been wrecked by a strom along the coast of Norway, and a hundred people drwned. Many familiees have been rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the burning of the steamer Ramed at Wuhu recently 200 Chinese perished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin was visited on Sunday with a storm of unusual violence, and serious destruction of property ensued. During the storm trees were uprooted and hurled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 5 o'clock yesterday Dr. Browning, the health officer at the Queenscliff quarantine station, reported to the Central H[?]rd of Health that the ship Kelton,…
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