Steamer Breaks in Two. Scene on the Mersey
While the Liverpool steamer Benshaw was proceeding up the Mersey on Saturday morning, June 10th, bound for Garsston with a cargo of about 3000 tons of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909
60 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3
American Fishing Schooner. Fired on by Canadian Cruiser. London, April 22
Midway between the east and west of the Haycock Islands, the Dominion fishing cruiser Kestrel seized the American schooner Charles Levi Woodbury, which in fishing for halibut…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Reuter's.] Foundering of a Lake Steamer. Heavy Death Roll. London
The steamer Shores sank with 21 of her crew and passengers at Whitfish Point, on Lake Superior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Latest. Sydney, Saturday. Steamer Founders
The coasting steamer Narara foundered near Broken Bay. The captain and crew reached Barrenjoey lighthouse during the night. They reported that the vessel sprang…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday. New Steamer
The new steamer Orsova has been given a four days trial cruise in the English Channel. There were 200 Australian and City guests on board, and the cruise was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage
The precipitancy of a workman in pulling the lever of a switch caused the second car of a three-car train on an elevated railroad to fall forty feet into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spanish Liner Ashore. London, June 11
The Spanish liner Antonio Lopez, of 6975 tone displacement, formerly named the Ruahine, which traded to the port of Barcelona, went ashore in a fog at Fire Ireland Beach, near New York…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hurricane in Sydney. Many Narrow Escapes. Houses Unroofed and Gardens Wrecked
Winter manifested itself in Sydney on Sunday in a most aggressive fashion, for throughout the day a violent gale raged from the north-west, carrying with it great…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cunard Liner Wrecked. London, June 12
The steamer Slavonia, 10,606 tons, of the Cunard Company, bound from New York for the Mediterranean, is ashore at Flores in the Azores. Her passengers, numbering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Lost. Twenty-one People Missing
The steamer Oak Branch has been totally wrecked through striking a derelict off the South American coast. There were some forty people on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Nerves. British Steamer Bombarded to Protect the Czar. London, June 18
The strict precautions which have been taken to guard the Czar during his cruise led to an unfortunate incident on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Bjorko, in the Baltic, off the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Ashore
The Dutch steamer, " Mallina," on her maiden voyage from Belfast for Brisbane went ashore at Torres Straits. Assistance has been sent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Steamer Lost. Twenty-one People Missing
The steamer Oak Branch has been totally wrecked through striking a derelict off the South American coast. There were some forty people on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shipwrecked Kitten. Special Trip of Rescue
An electric launch put out from a wharf near Trent Bridge on 22nd December for the special purpose of rescuing a shipwrecked kitten which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Appalling Shipwreck. Seventeen Lives Lost. Dreadful Sufferings
The Norwegian barque Errol, bound from Peru to Newcastle, was wrecked on Middleton Reef at midnight on June 18, and went to pieces within a couple of hours. Of the 22 souls on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Errol. Seventeen Lives Lost
News was received in Sydney on Wednesday of one of the most heartrending ocean tragedies that has occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shipwreck. 17 Lives Lost
The Island steamer Tofua yesterday brought news of the wreck of the barque Errol on Middleton Reef on June 18, and the loss of seventeen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South African Steamer Overdue
Reuter's correspondent at Durban writes that alarm is felt owing to the non-arrival at Capetown of the Lund liner Waratah, which left Port Natal on July 26, with 300 souls aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Maori Wrecked. Forty-seven Lives Lost
The Shaw-Savill liner Maori, 5317 tons, bound from London for Lyttelton, was wrecked on Duiker Point, 10 miles S.S.W. of Capetown, last night She coaled at Capetown on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maori Wreck. Twenty-one Saved. London, Aug. 7
Fishermen yesterday morning defected 12 men clinging to the mast tops of the Maori, off Duiker Point, near Capetown. They established communication despite enormous waves breaking over the…
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