Wrecks for the Year
DURING the year 1890 16 vessels representing 5303 tons were wrecked on or in the vicinity of the coast of New South Wales. The value of the vessels and cargoes is given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891
28 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
A Mail Steamer Overdue. LONDON, Feb. 16
The P. and O. mail steamer Oceana 18 reported as overdue at Briadisi. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the body of Thomas Joseph Finn,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Ancient Spanish Wreck
THURSDAY ISLAND, Thursday.—The captain of the schooner Lancashire Lass reports finding an extremely old Spanish wreck on the edge of the Barrier Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipwrecks
A VESSEL foundered at sea between 400 and 500 miles from Sydney a week prior to Friday last, and the crew, in two small boats, arrived off Sydney Heads late on Saturday night last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Steamer. LONDON, March 26
The steamer Strathairls (? Strathairly) has been wrecked off the coast of Carolina, in the United States. Nineteen lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Orient Steamer. LONDON, April 13
The s.s. Ophir, the new steamer for the Orient Company, has been successfully launched. At the Town Hall, Brisbane, on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 11 a.m. Bad Weather—a Wreck
BAD weather continues. The brigantine Eliza Alien went ashore inside Richmond River bar on Saturday, and is full of water. All hands saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck at the Caroline Islands. LONDON, April 18
The Union Company's R M.S. Monowai, which has arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, brings the intelligence that a vessel named the St. Catherine has been wrecked at the Caroline…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grounding of the Steamer Mamari. LONDON, May 4
The steamship Mamari, of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion S. N. Company, while on her voyage from New Zealand to London, grounded off one of the Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck and Loss of Life
The ship Craigioburn wont ashore yesternight. Fourteen of the crow left the vessel in a boat and stood out to sea; fifteen others left in another boat and attempted to land on the beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Fine Ships Wrecked
FRIDAY was an eventful day at Port Phillip Heads. Within a few hours of each other two fine ships were dashed upon the ironbound coast, and have now become complete wreaks, one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecks on the Victorian Coast
The ship Joseph H. Scammell, bound from Now York to Melbourne with a general cargo, which went ashore at Spring Crook, near Melbourne on Friday morning, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Missing Steamer Taramung. Supposed Loss of the Vessel with All Hands
LITTLE hopes are now held out in Sydney for the safety of the missing steamer Taramung. The discovery of a quantity if wreckage belonging to the missing vessel on the south…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of a Barque
A TELEGRAM from Auckland says :--The sealing vessel Janet Ramsay has arrived at the bluff, bringing the crew of the barque Compadre, which while outward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Wreck
THE barque Ellen, from Newcastle bound to Noumea, foundered at sea on the 12th instant, and of nine souls that comprised her crew only one was saved. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Wreck of a New Steamer
THE total loss of a new steamer, the Wallarah, was reported on Tuesday by cable. The vessel was on her maiden voyage to Australia with a valuable cargo. When making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Total Wreck of the Wallarah
The steamship Wallarah, bound from London to Sydney, has been totally wrecked off Dassen Island, near the Cape of Good Hope. The passengers and crew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Barque Fiji.—Twelve Drowned
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A telegram from Cobden states that the life-saving apparatus from Port Campbell reached the scene of the wreck of the barque Fiji this morning; 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Barque Fiji
THE barque Fiji, bound from Hamburg to Melbourne, with a general cargo, including 260 tons of dynamite, which, as reported by telegraph in last issue, ran on a reef near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Fiji
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Nows was received in the city yesterday of another great marina disaster along the Victorian coast. The barque Fiji, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →