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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896

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Wreck of a Steamer. London, Jan. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1896 · page 2

The iron screw steamer Ealing, a vessel of 2000 tons register, built in 1882 at Blyth, in the north of England, has been wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia…

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Wreck of the Steamer Glanworth BRISBANE

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 January 1896 · page 3

Intense excitement prevailed here to-day when of because known that the A.U S.N. Company’s steamer G[?]worth had been wrecked on the coast near Gladstone. The vessel, which was in…

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Wreck of the Aldinga

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1896 · page 2

A telegram from Bellsmbi states that is southerly gale has swept away from the rest every trace of the week of the Aldiega…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.20 p.m. the Wrecked Aldinga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1896 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Bellambi states that the southerly has swept away every trace of the wreck of the steamer Aldinga from the reef. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN…

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Floods and Wrecks in Queensland.—Loss of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 4

IN the northern portions of Queensland the disturbance "'Sigma" has been raging with great violence, causing floods, gales, and consequent disaster to shipping. At…

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The Queensland Storms. News by the Wodonga. Many Shipping Casualties. Vessels Foundered and Driven Ashore. Eighteen Lives Lost

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 February 1896 · page 2

Cairns, Friday morning.--In addition to the particulars of the shipping disasters and casualties sent yesterday the following details ore available by the Wodonga, which arrived…

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The Mail Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 3

A THUNDERSTORM with heavy rain passed over the city this afternoon. It is now fine. BRISBANE, Wednesday GREAT activity is being displayed at…

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Terrible Disaster at Brisbane. Capsize of a Ferry Steamer. About 30 Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thursday.—A terrible accident occurred in the river, a short distance below the Victoria Bridge, about five minutes past 5 o'clock this afternoon. All traffic having boon stopped on the bridge…

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A New Steamer for Australia. London, Feb. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 4

Mr. W. T. Appleton, one of the directors of Messrs Huddart, Parker, and Co., has ordered a steamer to be built at Sunderland for the company's service. The steamer, which is to be completed by August…

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The Missing Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 5

The missing steamer Macgreger from Albany to Esperance, is reported safe though stranded. Crew and passengers all safe, and the steamer not in any dauger…

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The Missing Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 3

A WIRE was received at the G.P.O. at noon on Friday from Esperance (W.A.) stating that the steamer MacGregor is aground in Mary Anne Harbour. The passengers are all safe…

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Loss of a British Steamer. Explosion of Gunpowder. Forty Men Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 March 1896 · page 3

The British steamer Matadi, 2683 tons register, owned by the British and African Navigation Company of Glasgow, has been destroyed at Boma, Congo Free…

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The Adelaide Express Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 April 1896 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The express train from Adelaide, with the English mails aboard for the eastern colonies, was completely wrecked four miles on the Adelaide side of Dimboola, at a quarter-past…

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Searching for the Gold on Board the Steamer Catterthun

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 2

ON Monday night the steamer Sophia Ann left the New Manly Company's wharf for Seal Rocks to search for the gold lust in the steamer Catterthun. There went by the vessel Captain John Hall (who…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Friday, 4 p.m. Steamer Sunk

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 5

THE Manly steamer, Brightside, which had been just renovated nod made a trial trip yesterday, sank in Neutral Bay during last night, owing it is believed to one of the…

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Cable Intelligence. the Terrible Disaster. Wreck of the Drummond Castle. 243 Lives Lost

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

London, June 18.--Further particulars in regard to the loss of the Drummond Castle state that the disaster was not the result of a collision, as was at first reported. The steamer struck on a rock…

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News by Cable. Terrible Disaster at Sea. Wreck of the Steamer Drummond Castle. 243 Lives Lost. Only Three Saved

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 June 1896 · page 3

A telegram has been received from the island of Ushant, about 15 miles off the west coast of France, stating that the Castle line steamer Drummond Castle…

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Loss of an Egyptian Steamer. London, July 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 July 1896 · page 6

The Egyptian steamer Rahmanieh has been lost in the Red Sea. Sixty Greek passengers are missing…

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Another Wreck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 July 1896 · page 4

IN the shipping industry within a week there have been losses amounting in value to nearly as much as the Land and Income Tax will yield. The almost total loss of the steamer Woolloomooloo, the…

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A New Steamer. London, July 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 July 1896 · page 2

The new steamer built for the New Zealand Shipping Company was successfully launched to-day. The new vessel was christened the Waimato…

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