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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890

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A New Steamer. LONDON, April 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1890 · page 6

The steamer Monowai, which has been built for the Union Company of New Zealand, was tested on a trial trip, and attained a speed of nearly 15 knots. The Monowai is intended for…

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Wreck of the Barque Emilie.—The Captain and Seven Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 April 1890 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Monday.—It is now definitely ascertained that the barque wreaked near Stewart Island was the Emilie, timber laden, She was insured for £1350 in the New Zealand and Union…

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Wreck of the Em[?]le

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 2

NEWS from Auckland on Tuesday says:-- The barque Emilie, under charter to Mr. Ward, and bound from the Bluff to Port Pirie, was struck by a squall in Foveaux…

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News by Cable. Launching of a New Steamer. LONDON, April 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 April 1890 · page 4

A new steamer, the Wodonga, has been successfully launched at Glasgow for the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company of Sydney…

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The Wreck of the Quetta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 April 1890 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sunday.—The Marine Board has given its decision in connection with the wreck of the Quetta. After recounting at considerable length the circumstances connected with the…

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Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Life

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 4

A TERRIBLE shipping disaster has occurred at Stewart's Island, resulting in the drowning of sight men. The barque Emilie left the Bluff on the 25th of last month bound…

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Cable News. Sinking of the Steamer Dacca. LONDON, May 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 May 1890 · page 2

Intelligence has reached London to the effect that the steamer Palamootta has arrived at Suez with the passengers and crow of the British India Company's steamer Dacca, which struck…

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The Wreck of the Dacca. LONDON, May 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 May 1890 · page 2

Further particulars from Suez in reference to the Sinking of the British-India Company's R M.S. Dacca, after striking the Daedalus Reef in the Red Sea, state that 400 emigrants who…

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The Wreck of the Dacca. Tue Wreck Drifting with Officers and Crew

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 May 1890 · page 2

Further particulars from Suez in reference to the sinking of the British-India Company's H. M.S. Dacca, after strinking the Daedalus Shoal, in the red Sea, state that 400 emigrants who were on…

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Wreck of a Danish Barque. LONDON, May 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 4

The Danish barque Marie, bound for Adelaide, has been wrecked on the coast of Madagascar. The crew were saved…

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The Wreck of the Dacca. LONDON, May 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 June 1890 · page 4

The B. I. S. N. Company's s.s. Taroba, the vessel which is being sent out to pick up the emigrants rescued from the Dacca, sails on Tuesday, and will embark the emigrants at Suez…

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The Wreck of the You Yangs

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1890 · page 2

The Yon Yangs, of Messrs. Howard Smith and Company's fleet of intercolonial steamers, has been totally wreaked off Kangaroo Island, while on a voyage to Sydney from Port Pirie. She first…

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Wreck of the You Yangs

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 June 1890 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The steamer You Yangs, bound from Port Pirie to Sydney with a cargo of stool rails, struck on a reef near Cape Willoughby on Sunday…

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The Wreck of the Dacca

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Mr. R. J. Sayers, member of the Queensland Assembly for the district of Charters Towers, and who was one of the…

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Wreck of a German Steamer.—Capsize of a Vessel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 July 1890 · page 4

THURSDAY ISLAND, Tuesday.—The following extracts are taken from Eastern files received by the Catterthun:—The German steamer Yangtsze, bound from Hongkong to Shanghai, was lost on…

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The Shipping Strike. — a State Steamer Service

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 3

IT will have been observed that in some quarters the subject of a proposal to substitute a state [?] service for the present service has been [?]tated. Now, although I…

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Wreck on the Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 October 1890 · page 2

AN extraordinary wreck occurred late on Sunday night on the coast near the Tweed River Heads. A new steamer, the Alberta, with 4700 tons of coal from Japan, struck on Sutherland…

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The Wreck of H. M. S. Serpent. LONDON, November 15

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 2

Further details of the wreck of H. M. S. Serpent, which foundered on Monday night last about 20 miles north of Capo Finisterre, on the coast of Spain, are to hand. The three survivors of the…

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The Wreck Op the Serpent. London, November 22

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 November 1890 · page 3

The three survivors of H.M.S. Serpent, which was wrecked near Cape Villano, on the Spanish coat, on the 10th instant, resulting in the loss pf 175 lives, arrived…

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Seventy Fishing Smacks Wrecked. LONDON, Nov. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 December 1890 · page 4

A great storm has occurred along the coast of Norway. Seventy fishing stmacks were wrecked in the Lofoden Fjord, and the crews, numbering 100 persons, were drowned. Many families on…

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