Latest Cable News. The Orotava Ashore. LONDON, Tuesday Evening
The Orient R.M.S., Orotava has gone ashore on the Scilla shoal, near Perim, at the entrance to the Red Sea. The passengers and crew were landed…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
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Latest Cable News. The Orotava Ashore. LONDON, Tuesday Evening
The Orient R.M.S. Orotava has gone ashore on the Scilla shoal, near Perim, at the entrance to the Red Sea. The passengers and crew were landed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Mail Steamer Ashore. the Crotava on Skilla Shoal. London, Feb. 24
The mail steamer Orotava, which recently sank at Tilbury Docks and was refloated, has gone ashore on the Skilla Shoal in the Red Sea, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Orotava. in a Perilous Position. the Mails and Passengers Transhipped. London, Feb. 27
The mail steamer Orotava, which is aground at the entrance to the Red Sea, has been heeled to seaward by a heavy sea, and the vessel has sprung…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Barque Vallalta. An Awful Night on the West Australian Coast. Captain and Some of the Crew Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Perth, Tuesday Night
Some particulars have just come in of the wreck of the barque Vallalta and the drowning of the captain and some members of the crew. At…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Missing Ketch. Believed to Have Foundered with all Hands. AUCKLAND, Sunday Evening
The ketch Lizzie Ellen, which left Timaru for The Bluff in January, has never been heard of since. She is believed to have foundered with all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck on the Cornish Coast. The Steamer Syracuse Lost. All on Board Drowned. [By Cable.] London
A brief despatch has been received reporting that the steamer Syracuse has been wrecked off the coast of Cornwall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Orotava. Ready to Proceed on the Voyage. London, March 6
The mail steamer Oro[?]ava is now tree from the leakage which she spring while on Seilly Shoal, in the Red Sea, and will proceed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Rocket Accident on a Steamer
A delayed wire from Albany(W. A.) reports:— The steamer M'Gregor left Albany on Saturday afternoon for Esperance with a number of passengers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of a Cutter. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Evening
The cutter Emily, 15 tons, has been wrecked at Mallacoota Inlet. No lives were lost. She was loaded with bark and quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Cutter. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Evening
The cutter Emily, 15 tons, has been wrecked at Mallacoota Inlet. No lives were lost. She was loaded with bark and quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrible Sufferings Through Shipwreck. LONDON, Thursday Evening
A boat containing four survivors of the French liner Ville Nazaire, which foundered off the North American coast, has been picked up by the schooner Hilda. The…
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The French steamer Ville Nazaire has foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Eighty persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Disasters. a Dutch Liner Wrecked. London, March 18
The Dutch liner Utrecht has been wrecked on the French coast. A hundred lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supposed Wreck of a Lumber Ship. [By Telegraph.] Auckland
News from Samoa states that during the three weeks prior to writing large quantities of heavy lumber were picked up at Aliepata and Falealli. It is believed that a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Ville de Nazaire. LONDON
The steamer Yanarwa has picked up a lifeboat belonging to the French steamer Ville de Nazaire, which foundered off Cape Hatteras, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the City of Agra
CAPTAIN DUDDING, of the steamer Onega, which rescued the survivors of the City of Agra, tells how, at daylight on February 3, as his vessel steamed out of the bay where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Longest Steamer in the World
A LONDON correspondent writes:â " The new steamer Oceanic, which is being built for the American mail service, will break the world's record…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on a Steamer. Albany
The steamer Bothwell Castle, which arrived on Friday night, had a most unpleasant experience during the voyage from Adelaide. A fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecks on the Cornish Coast
As was reported by cable at the time, a terrific storm occurred on the Cornish coast on March 4. From Cornish papers just to hand the following particulars of shipping…
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