A Yacht Ashore. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
The yacht Kathleen, owned by the Mayor of Adelaide, while cruising last week in the Gulf was driven ashore at Henley Beach, and had to be pulled off by two steam tugs…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898
177 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 9
Steamer on Fire. sYDNEY
The Balmain Ferry Company's steamer Friday Hampden was gutted by fire this morning while lying at Eald Rock The flames spread to two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rescued from a Sinking Steamer. LONDON
The steamer Melita Bohlen rescued 39 of the crew of the steamer Drummond as the latter was on the point of sinking off the coast of Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Lubra. All Hands Saved. [By Telegraph.] Perth
News has been received here that the steamer Lubra was wrecked at Jurien Bay, midway between Geraldton and Fremantle. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Gales on the Queensland Coast. The Ranelagh Ashore. Other Ships Have a Rough Time. BRISBANE
Simultaneously with the heavy rains and floods in this colony a tremendous south-east gale has been blowing along the coast, and all vessels bound for Queensland ports have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Lubra. Sydney
The steamer Libra has been wrecked on the West Australian coast. No lives were lost. TUESDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wrecked Ranelagh. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A message from Bundsberg reports that all attempts to get the steamer Ranelagh off the rocks have failed. Blight! Blight!!—Dont' suffer, as Morria'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Ashore. Brisbane
The steamer Ranleigh, from Brisbane, to Bandaberg, went ashore [?] Burnett Heads. The engine room was flooded, but all the passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newspaper Offices Wrecked. London, Jan. 13
A body consisting of 100 offers smashed up several newspaper offices in Havanna, owing to the publication of articles attacking the army…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saved From Foundering. Narrow Escape of a Schooner. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The four-masted schoener Cyrus, Captain Christianson, departed for San Francisco from Newcastle with coal on Sunday. When well off the land she…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of a Japanese Transport. LONDON
The Japanese transport Vera has been wrecked off the Piscadores Group, near the coast of China. O[?] those on board 85 were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Japanese Transport Wrecked. London, Jan. 17
The Japanese transport Mara has been wrecked off Pescadores, and 85 persons drowned. Only five were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Koonya Ashore. Passengers Landed in Safety. The Vessel a Total Wreck. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The steamer Koonya yesterday morning left Moruya for Sydney with 14 passengers, principally women and children; but she got ashore on the Coronulla beach yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. Loss of a Mail Steamer. Fifteen Saved. Fate of the Others Uncertain. [Reuter's Message.] London
News is to hand that the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Matana, which left London on December 21, has been totally lost near the Straits of Magellan. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident on the Steamer Murrumbridgee Coroners Inquest
An inquest was held at the Hospital yesterday afternoon, before Mr Coroner Brown, touching the circumstances at tending the death of Job Eastwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Loss of a Mail Steamer. Fifteen Saved. Fate of the Others Uncertain' [Return's Message.] London
News is to hand that the New Zealand Shippihg Company's steamer Matana, which left London on December 21, has been totally lost near the Strairs of Magollan. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Mataura. London, Jan. 27
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Mataura, bound from Wellington to London, has been last near the Straits of Magellan, off South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Mataura. LONDON
Further details concerning the wreck of the New Zealand mail steamar Mataura, in Magellan's Straits, show that the vessel struck an uncharted rock, and had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Schooner Sank. Sydney
A telegrams from Auckland as noures at the showner Waitland for Newcastle has boat bunk by a collision…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of a Channel Steamer. Eighteen Lives Lost. [By Telegraph.] London
The steamer Channel Queen went on the rocks off the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, during a fog, and became a total wreck. Eighteen lives were lost…
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