Terrible Lifeboat Disaster
Signals of distress were observed on the night of the 9th inst., by the men at the Southport Lifeboat house, Lancashire, apparently from a vessel, off Formby, named the Mexico, of Hamburg. The…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Passenger Steamer Sunk In Bombay Harbour
Early on Saturday morning (says the Bombay Gazette of December 24), Bombay Harbour waa the scene of a frightful collision between the s.s. King Arthur, belonging to…
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A small vessel was seen yesterday by a passing steamer, broadside on sandy bench, between Fire Islands and Shoalhaven. One mast was standing, and…
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News has been received of the wreek of the steamer Palmerston on the Secret Rock, about 20 miles north-cast of Port Lincoln. The Palmerston belonged to Darling and Son, who last year bough…
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From particulars gleaned through the courtesy of the captain of the Broken Bay Company's steamer Genista, we (Echo) learn that the vessel reported to be the Amy, ashore on Long Reef, is…
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The Orient mail steamer Garonnets arrived at Adelaide. Her mails should reach Sydney by Monday next…
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Last Thursday week the collision between the Emu and Waratah took place in Sydney Cove, resulting in the latter boat sinking Tenders to raise her were called for and accepted on Saturday,…
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The following particulars of the wrecks which have occurred during the year 1886 on the coast of New South Wales is published in the Gazette for general information. The first wreck which took…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Terribie Wreck of an Emigrant Ship. Over Two Hundred Lives Lost
Information has been received from Bahia to the effect that the Kapunda, from London for Australia, had been run down and sunk by the Ada Melmore (British barque), from Coquimbo to England, and…
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The Mail steamer Raiatea, from Frisco to Tahiti Island was burned at sea, 200 miles from Panmolee Island. The crew and passengers, after five days…
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A telegram from Lisbon says that the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Patagonia arrived there on February 23 with the survivors of the Kapunda. Owing, however, to her bringing a…
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The P. end O.Co's steamer Tasmania stranded on Saturday night on rocks off the Island of Corsica. The women and children were all safely landed, but…
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All the passengers from the wrecked mail steamer Tasmania, have been safely [?]nded at Marseilles…
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News is to hand form Hongkong [?] the wreck of the schooner Estelong,[?] Sydney, which loft Sydney in January last for Havilab, au isolated is[?]…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.- The British India steamer Dorunda from London arrived at Cooktown yesterday, and brings news of a terrible shipping…
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A terrible disaster has overta[?] one of the passenger steamers that ply be[?]een England and France. The Newhaven an[?] Dieppe line has long been popular with travellers. Although the sea…
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The Messager de Tahiti, a French journal published at Papeete, Tahiti, gives some details of the destruction by fire of the German steamer Raiatea in the Pacific Ocean. From the report of the first…
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The following account of the loss of the Tasmania, sent by a correspondent at Ajaccio, appears in a French journal:—"As I reported yesterday, the Tasmania struck on the Moines, probably through…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Steamer Ripple. (From the Herald.)
Captain T. Woodhouse and the crow of the steamer Ripple, which was wrecked on the Solomon Islands in February last, arrived here yesterday in the schooner Lizzie. No one was killed or injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Steam Collier Waratah. [By Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Sydney, Wednesday 2.0 p.m
The steamship Waratah, while loading coal at the North Illawarra cargo jetty, North Bulli, broke from her moorings yesterday afternoon, through the heavy sea, and quickly went aground on the…
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