Shipwreck and Loss of Life
The Boulogne correspondent of the Times telegraphed on the 15th November:- "Intelligence was received this morning of a terrible shipwreck at Audresselles, a village…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1876
35 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
The Bremerhaven Tragedy. Extraordinary Attempt to Blow Up a Steamer. (Home News, December 24.)
A terrible explosion which occurred on the wharf at Bremerhaven on Dec. 11, and which killed sixty people and wounded forty, is attributed to one of the passengers having had a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wreck of the Strathmore. (Telegram to S. M. Herald.) Bombay, February 25
A ship touched at Galle yesterday, and landed twenty survivors of the Strathmore, from London to New Zealand, wrecked on Crozet Island in July, 1875. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LATEST Through Telegrams From England. [From Greville's Telegram Company.] Wrecks
The barque Glenary, from Adelaide to London, is a total wreck off Blackgang. The stranded ship Coonatta, from Adelaide, is fast breaking up at New Haven. A portion of the cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wrsck of the Steamer Banshee. (From Telegrams in the S. M. Herald.) Further Particular. Brisbane, Friday midnight
The Banshee (s.) struck on Cape Sandwich, Hinchinbrook Island, on Tuesday afternoon, and went to pieces five minutes after striking. The sea was rnnning mountains high, and the…
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Vicksburg, February 27.—The steamer Mary Belle, owned by J. Frank Hicks and Alf. Grissall, was burned to the water's edge this afternoon. The boat was taking on cotton, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Banshee. (From the Cleveland Bay Erpress, March 29.)
Mr. Eliot Mullens gives the following graphic account of the late lamentable wreck of the steamer Banshee, on Hinchinbrook Island:- All went well till noon when the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Strathmore. Galle, February 24
The Sierra Morena put in here, and landed 12 passengers and 8 of the crew, part of the survivors of the Strathmore, of Dundee, new iron ship of 1872 tons, on her first voyage from…
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Yesterday evening the Orestes (s.), of Holt's line, bound for China, whilst making this port with the intention of coaling, struck on the Geindura Reef, five miles distant, but got off and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Wreck—390 Pilgrims Drowned. Bombay, March 8
The steamer Jowerd has been wrecked. She left Jeddah on the 16th January with upwards of 400 pilgrims. On the same night she struck on a reef known as Coomptas, and became a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Barque Ashore on Shiant Islands. the Crew Imprisoned for Five Days
Our Stornoway correspondent writes:—Intelligence has reached Stornoway of the Shipwreck of the barque Neda, of Newcastle, Joseph Clark master, 374 tons register, upon Sunday…
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We have official authority for stating that the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company will start one of its steamers from Sydney at midnight on Sunday for the next four weeks,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipwrecks and Loss of Life. (From the Daily Telegraph, March 20.) Plymouth, Sunday night
On Saturday night, during a furious N.N.W. gale, a large steamer was driven ashore on the coast of Cornwall, between St Ives and the Land's End. She was seen just before dusk…
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We take the following additional items from the Echo of Monday:- RECENT OUTRAGES AT PERAK Singapore, April 29…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stealing Copper and Brass from a Steamer. (From the Echo, May 26.)
At the Water Police Court on Friday, (before the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs Lester, Raphael, Goldring, Day, Maunsell, Charlton, and Graham), Joseph Wilmott,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Austrian Ship Stephane. (From the Freemantle Herald, April 6)
By the cutter Jessie, Tuckey master, which arrived from Port Walcott, on Wednesday, April 5, we learn a sad tale of shipwreck. The following are the particulars as related by one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck with Loss of Life [By Telegraph to Echo.] Adelaide
The Geltwood, barque, from Liverpool to Melbourne, is a total wreck twelve miles south of Kivoli Bay. One dead body has been washed ashore. It is supposed that all lives have been lost. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Wrecks of the Lightning, Geltwood, and C[?]sarewitch. (By telegraph to the S. M. Herald.) Wreck of an Emigrant Ship on Trow-bridge Shoal. Adelaide
The ship Lightning, with 406 emigrants, went ashere at-Trowbridge, three miles nearer shore than where the Iron King was wrecked. The accident happened in broad daylight…
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The hull of the Geltwood lies forty miles nearer Port Macdonnell than where the steamer Admella was wrecked. The wreck appears to have been caught in the cleft of a reef, as it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Cesarewitch. Wellington (N.Z)
The steamer Maori has arrived at Greymonts with the captain or the Csearewitch, wrecked on her voyage from the Bluff to Sydney. The vessel reached within 500 miles of Port Jackson,…
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