Wreck of the Dunbar
"The sky looks black," the skipper said, As he watched the rising clouds: "The wind is from the north," he said As it shook the straining shrouds…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884
14 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
A Suene on the Deck of a Steamer
IT is doubtful if any theatre ever offered such volumes of romantic incidents as the deck of the old time Mississippi steamer. In the old days before railroads traversed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Select Poetry. the Wreck of the Dunbar
“The sky looks black,” the skipper said As he watched the rising clouds; “The wind is from the north,” he said As it shook the straining shrouds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The P. and O. Steamer Valetta
THE following description of the new steamer Valetta is forwarded from London by a correspondent The measured mile trial of this vessel was to have taken place on the 9th December, but could…
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A TELEGRAM has been received from Newcastle, stating that the brig Phyllis has arrived there and has brought news that the steamship India, from Newcastle for Port Lyttleton, New Zealand, coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Shipwreck on the Coast of Nova Scotia.—124 Persons Drowned
HALIFAX, N. S., April 5.—A steamship disaster, which took place on Thursday night at the very entrance to Halifax Harbour, has been paralleled in horror only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shipwreck at Newcastle
ABOUT 8 o'clock on Friday morning the signal guns at Newcastle, gave the alarm of shipwreck; and it was discovered that the American ship Susan Gilmore, Captain Carver, from Sydney to Newcastle…
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THE following fuller particulars of the wreck of the Susan Gilmore at Newcastle, are given in telegrams to the S. M. Herald:â NEWCASTLE, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Large Steamer
One of the greatest events of the shipping world, says Fairplay of July 4, was the launch on Wednesday of last week of the new Cunard steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Ship Lastingham
The ship Lastingham, 1143 tons, bound from London to Wellington, encountered a heavy gale at the entrance to Cook Straits on Monday evening, and was driven on the rocks at Cape Jackson, at…
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News has just been received from a coasting ketch, of a terrible wreck during a heavy gale on Monday night The wrecked vessel was the Lastingham, an…
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A COLLISION occurred in the harbour early on Tuesday morning between the H.R.N.S.N. Co's steamer Namol and the steamer Angenoria, and resulted in the immediate sinking of the latter. The…
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The following [?] of the record disterous wreck of the Lastingham in Cook's Straits, is taken from the Wellinton Evening Post of the 8th September:—…
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A terrible disaster occurred on Wednesday night, when the barque Clyde, bound from Dunedin to Lyttleton, struck on a reef in Horseshoo Bay and became a total wreck. The vessel had returned…
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