An Awful Storm. Total Wreck of Liner
ADVICES from North Truro, Massachusetts, confirm the report that the American steamer Portland was totally wrecked at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning oil the Highlaad Light,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
177 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 9
A New Steamer. LONDON
The White Star liner Oceanic has been launched at Belfast. The steamer is said to be the largest afloat…
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A CONSIDERABLE amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a…
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The ship Hawksdale, bound from Hamburg to Melbourne, has been wrecked on the Long Sand, off the Essex (English) coast. The German…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Awful Disaster. Wrecked in Harbor. [By Telegraph.] Wellington
The mail steamer Warrimoo, which arrived here yesterday from Vancouver, brings particulars of the loss of the barque Adeline at Tacoma, on the Californian coast, last month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Series of Disasters. Shipwreck, Avalanche, Fire, and Flood. [Reuter's Messages.] a Collier Wrecked. the Crew Drowned. London
The steam collier Arno has been wrecked off Portsmouth, on the English coast. Although the disaster happened close inshore, 18 of the crew were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gale in Britain. Many Wrecks. London, Tuesday Afternoon
A heavy westerly gale continues to blow over Great Britain mid Ireland. Much damage has been done on land, and around the coast many vessels have…
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The German mall steamer Prinz. Regent Luitpold arrived at Albany yesterday, with General Booth aboard. An enormous crowd, chiefly of Salvationists, assembled to welcome the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck—Trembling Above the Seething Abyss—Help Arrives at the Last Second—She Looks Back on her Peril with Dread
IT falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight of death in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Schooner Wrecked. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane, Wednesday Afternoon
The schooner Moonta has been wrecked on Ganycomb Head, Gladstone. All the bands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A North Queensland Hurricane. Many Vessels Wrecked. Serious Loss of Life. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
Captain Almond, portmaster at Brisbane, has received a wire from the harbormaster at Cooktown, that Captain King, of the Intercolonial steamer Warrego, arrived there…
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The Victoria arrived here upstream on the [?] int. amd left for Bourke the same day. The Wandering Jew arrived downstream on the 9th inst., and the Lady of the Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck—Trembling Above the Seething Abyss—Help Arrives at the Last Second—She Looks Back on her Peril with Dread
IT falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight of death in the…
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The Allan Ooinpany's liner Castilian, during her maiden trip, ran ashore at Gaunetlock, in the Bay of Fundy, during a fog. The disaster is attributed…
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Messrs Stone & Corney, agents for the Momba Pastoral Co., Ltd., advise the dispatch of the Tolarno with 1020 bales of Momba from Mount Murchison for…
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The Allan Company's liner Oastilian, during her maiden trip, ran ashore at Gannetlock, in the Bay of Fundy, during a fog. The disaster is attributed…
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The Colonel left downstream on Wednesday afternoon with [?] of [?] on board, expecting to make a return trip…
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The Victoria with large Cobar left for Mount Murchison yesterday to load wool for S.A. The Mundoo with large Duck is due…
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The Admiralty Court at the rehearing of the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the R.M.S. China in the Red Sea exonerated Captain Crawford…
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BUSINESS with Sir Augustus Harris took me some years ago behind the scenes of Drury Lane Theatre while the great battle scene in one of his…
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