Shocking Accident on Board the Steamer Burwah
A SHOCKING accident occurred on board the steamer Burwah on Friday night when leaving the Brisbane wharf for Maryborough. The particulars obtained are very meagre, but it is…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
44 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Wreck Between Sydney Heads
THE barque Centurion, of the Aberdeen White Star line, left the harbour early on Sunday morning in tow of the steam collier Phoebe, with 100 tons of stiffening coal on board for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. the Warriors of the Sea. a Lifeboat Story
[On December 11, the lifeboat stationed at Southport, in Lancashire, pat off to rescue the crew of a vessel which had gone ashore on the sands near there. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Sydney. Three Houses Demolished. Wreck and Ruin. Collapse of the Bondi Sewer. (From the Evening News.)
ONE of the most severe rain storms experienced here for many years visited the city last Wednesday morning. The rain, which had been falling intermittently from an early hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision at Sea. a Steamer Sunk.—great Loss of Life
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The British India steamer Dor[?]da from London arrived in Cooktown yesterday, and brings news of a terrible shipping catastrophe on the night of March 29. Between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Bentan
THE later and fuller details to hand regarding the loss of the steamer Bentan off Batu Point, Malacca, on April 2, show that that vessel, while on one of her usual voyages between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecks on the New Zealand Coast
IT has now been ascertained that four lives were lost by the wreck of the Union Company's steamer Boojum, at Napier, while attempting to reach the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The National Lifeboat Institution
THE NATIONAL LIFEHOAT INSTITUTION.— Under the heading A Noble Institution and a Noble Record, the St. Jame's Gazetto publishes some statistics concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Captain of the Steamer Chelydra Fined £1000
AT the instance of Mr. James Powell, Collector of Customs for the colony, the master of the steamship Chelydra (Henry Pearce), who arrived in Port Jackson on the 25th May, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE R.M.S. Hydaspes Ashore. London, June 21
The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Hydaspes, homeward bound from Calcutta, has gone ashore in the Gulf of Suez…
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COOKTOWN, Tuesday.—The captain of the R.M.S. Roma reports the foundering of the German-China Lloyd's steamer Oder in the Red Sea, many lives being lost. B.I.S.N. Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer Services. London, June 26
The Government have now under consideration the offer made by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to establish three steamer services, starting from Vancouver's Island and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Tasmania. London, June 28
The official inquiry by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the R.M.S. Tasmania off Corsica has commenced. The evidence revealed the fact that the Lascars were excluded from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Steamers Ashore
OWING to a dense fog which prevailed in Sydney on Monday night two accidents happened in the harbour. The Port Jackson Co.'s Manly steamer Brighton, from Manly to Sydney, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Barque Gange
ANOTHER marine disaster has to be added to the long list of casualties which have occurred outside Port Phillip Heads. News was received early on Sunday morning that the Austrian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Tasmania. LONDON, August 8
The inquiry into the loss of the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania, which was wrecked on the Monaohi Rocks, oil the south coast of Dorisca, on the 17th April last, was concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Excursion Steamer for Australia. LONDON, August 11
Messrs. Huddart Parker, and Co.'s new steamer Courier, intended for the excursion trade in Port Phillip Bay, will be launched on September 4…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smallpox on the Steamer Tsinan
THE Steamer Tsinan, from Hongkong via Foochow and Port Darwin, arrived in Sydney harbour on Friday with a case of modified smallpox on board, the victim being a Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New P. and O. Steamer. LONDON, Aug. 18
The steamship Britannia, the latest addition to the P. and O. Company's fleet, was successfully launched at Greenock to-day. The Britannia, which is a sister ship to the same company's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burning of an Atlantic Steamer. London, August 20
New York to Liverpool. During the night fires broke out simultaneously in several places amongst a cargo of cotton in the hold, when the…
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