The Wreck of the Ly-ee-moon
The all absorbing topic, that of the Ly-ce-Moon disaster, is rapidly passing the wonder period, and some proper method is being taken to raise funds for the relief of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
The Wreck of the Guchen. Story of the Survivors
THE two survivors of the second boat which left the ill-fated Guchen, have arrived in Brisbane by the steamer Derwent. The men. Joseph Mercier…
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THE Ly-[?]-Moon meeting last night was crowded and anthusiastic. The Governor presided. Speeches were made by the Primate, Sir Hoary Parkes, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon. (From the Echo.) Green Cape
Mr. Whelan and Mr. Walter were the only men in the surf when the mast fell with the first survivors. Whelan saved six and Walter two. Walter was also holding a rope attached to Whelan in case…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Ly-ee-moon. Marine Board Enquiry. [By Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Sydney, received Wednesday, 8.10 p.m
This morning the Marine Board held an inquiry into the causes of the loss of the Ly-ee-moon. The Australasian Steam Navigation Company was represented by Dr. R. M. Sly, instructed by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipwrecks on the New South Wales Coast. (From the Herald.)
The recent terrible disaster to the steamship Ly-ee-Moon, and the awful loss of life which [?] companied it, is the most fatal occurrence of this kind that has ever taken place on the coast of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Wrecked at Sydney Heads
[?]three-masted schooner Falcon, Captain [?] Wilson, outward bound for Newcastle, in b[?], had (says Tuesday's Herald) made a fair [?]on her journey down the harbour last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inquiry [?]nto the Wreck of the Fifeshire. (From the Herald.)
The Marine Board, under the presidency of Captain Broomfield, held at the Custom House buildings yesterday afternoon an inquiry into the loss of the steamer Fifeshire, which was stranded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Strange Wreck. (From a New Zealand paper.)
Timaru, June 12.—As the ship Lyttelton, loaded with frozen meat, was being towed out of the harbour this morning, at 8 o'clock, she was wrecked. The Harbour Board tug is now in Dunedin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Cutter Marion. (Telegram in Herald.) Cooktown
The duplicate cutter Marion was wrecked on Toulon Island on the 26th May. No lives were lost. The master and one seaman came over in H.M.S. Lark. An inquiry win hold to-day, before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Schooner Hugh Ewings
A telegram from Brisbane to the Herald says the barque Bachael, bound from Dungeness to Melbourne, arrived off Cape Moreton on Monday morning with the captain and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Ly-ee-Moon Wreck Relief Fund. (From the Herald.)
The secretary of the Ly-ee-Moon fund reports that since the fund was initiated the total amount received has been £5435 2s 5d, and the expenditure £649 11s 4d. Some 3600 subsoription lists have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trial Trip of a New Colonial Steamer
The s.s. Gwyder, which is now about completed by Messrs J. Readhead and Co., West Docks, South Shields, to the order of the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company of Sydney, N.S.W.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton. the New Steamer and Train Time Tables. Petition to the Minister for Works
The announcement made in Saturday's Maitland Mercury "that the Commissioner of Railways cannot see his way clear to run a train connecting with the eleven o'clock steamers further than West…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Dunnottar Castle. Perilous Adventures of the Crew
By a cablegram, dated Auckland Friday, news has arrived that the ship Dunnottar Castle, 1702 tons, which left Sydney for San Francisco on June 7,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sunken Wreck of the Oregon
Six divers are now constantly at work on the Oregon, steam pumps being used to supply them with air. Each man remains under water from a half hour to an hour at a time. By the end of that…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The New Mail and Steamer Arrangements
Persons who desire to travel are to be made aware that the new time-table on the railway comes into force next Monday. In our last issue we gave the hours of arrival and departure at and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the German Schooner Peter. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The steamer Golden Gate arrived in sydney on Friday from New Britain, via Mcok[?], Duke of York Island, bringing the master and six of the crew of the German three-masted schooner Peter,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foundering of the Steamer Kalara. (From the Brisbane Courier, Nov. 9.)
Captain R. D. Henry, of the steamer Kalara, the crew, and five passengers who had started in her for Brisbane, arrived here on Monday afternoon in the steamer Natone, from Southport. The loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wreck of the Corangamite
The latest intelligence from the wreck of the Corangamite, which grounded in Wreck Bay early on Monday morning states that all the passengers were landed…
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