Story of the First Lifeboat
The story of the invention of the self-righting lifeboat was told says the "Westminster Gazette" by Sir John Cameron Lamb in an address before…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1910
54 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3
Lituania Ashore
The emigrate ship Lituania, with 1200 emigrants for New York, ran ashore on the Orkney coast during a fog, smashing her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Criminal Band. at Their Guilty Work. Burglary, Fires, Wrecking
The "Express" reports that the extraordinary series of outrages, including burglary, incendiarism, and attempted train-wrecking, which has occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barque Wrecked
The Norwegian barque, Turist, was wrecked a few miles north of Dumbla Pass, New Caledonia; all hands saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waratah Search Steamer Returning
The charter of the Waratah search steamer, Wakefield, expired yesterday The vessel is expected to arrive at Melbourne to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. Panic on Russian Steamer. London, June 2
The explosion of a boiler tube on a Russian steamer at Jenotajvsk killed a stoker. Passengers then became panic-stricken, and fought for the possession of the boats, the davits of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dover Breakwater. a Steamer Charges. Damages, Forty Thousand
The Swedish steamer Olaus Olsson, entering Dover Harbor at midnight on Saturday, 21st October, crashed broadside on into the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Reuter's.] London, Thursday. Mail Steamer in Collision
The mail steamer Malwa has been slightly damaged through colliding with the Nairn at Colombo. TO FIGHT SOCIALISM…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder on a Ketch
In island trader, named Pauke, was clubbed to death in the Solomons, by a member of his native crew on board his ketch Another member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Reuter's.] London, Wednesday. Wrecked Through Volcanic Action
Lloyds' agent reports that the German steamer Attika has been totally lost through a volcanic eruption. The crew landed at Oran, Algeria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Portugal
Fourteen miles from Swaggle [?] and twenty-eight from Sluggs lies the fishing-hamlet of Hacksters Hard. The place, a mere jumble of ramshackle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liner Ashore. Minnehaha Strikes Rocks. Wrecked Off Sicily
Is a dense fog the steamer Minnehaha, beinnging to the Atlantic Transport Line, one of the companies constituting the Morgan shipping [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Liner Ashore. Minnehaha Strikes Rocks. Wrecked Off Sicily
In a dense fog the steamer Minnehaha, belonging to the Atlantic Transport Line, one of the companies constituting the Morgan shipping combine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Sunk. Probable Heavy Loss of Life. London
Reuter's Tokio correspondent states that the Tetsuroi Maru, with 246 passengers, from Kobe for Dalny, near Port Arthur, sank at Chindo. Forty were saved, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[REUTER'S.] London, Friday. Steamer Adrift
The Peruvian steamer Huallaga is drifting, but it is hoped that she will be towed to port. GREAT DESTRUCTION IN FRANCE…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Agamemnon Ashore London, July 28
The steamer Agamemnon, which left Sydney on May 14 for London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, is ashore at Cloughey, County Down. The Australian cargo for Glasgow is aboard. No…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Steamer Safe
The steamer Agememnon, which went ashore, has arrived at Belfast. TENDERS FOR TINNED MEAT. The War Office is inviting tenders for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Treasure Hunt. Company's Attempt to Salve Rich Wrecks. Four Millions Sterling
Another expedition in search of lost treasure is likely to be started shortly by a new limited company, the National Salvage Association. It is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Wreck
The ship Carnarvon Bay has been wrecked on an unknown reef at the south-east end of King's Island, in Bass Straits. A boat containing the captain and 16 of the crew was picked up by the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Survivors' Story. Wreck Disaster
Mothers and wives wept bitterly on the Liverpool landing stage when, on Wednesday (says "Lloyd's News" of July 17) the Pacific liner Oropesa came…
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