BRISBANE. Friday. Ran Ashore
[?] steamer Wentworth ran ashore [?] on North Head, Bowen. The [?] is full of water, but the captain [?] three is every chance of saving…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
The Steamer Wentworth Stranded. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Brisbane
The steamer Wentworth ran ashore at 1.45 a.m. to-day on the north head of the Bowen. The fore-hold is full of water; but the captain thinks there is every chance of saving the vessel, if appliances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision withe an Atlantic Steamer. Serious Loss of Life
The Champagne, which made its trial passage just a year ago across the Atlantic and brought New York within a week of Paris, was run into on May 7 as she was steaming on her outward passage…
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The steamer Maranoa arrived from the north this morning, bringing the passengers and what cargo has been saved from the steamer Wentworth, including 6000oz. of gold, 1000 bunches of bananas,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Ann and Mary. (Herald's Telegram) Melbourne
Full particulars are to hand about the wreck of the schooner Ann and Mary, at Ninety-mile Beach. The vessel left the Mersey, Tasmania, on June 24, laden with a full cargo of potatoes, bound for…
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The schooner Reliance foundered last night between the Brunswick and Tweed Rivers. All hands were saved, and were landed at the Tweed [?]nds this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Gange. (Herald's Telegram.) Melbourne
Shortly before midnight on Saturday the Austrian barque Gange, 1071 tons, bound from London to Melbourne with a cargo of railway iron, cement, and sulphur, was stranded on Point…
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The H. R. N. S' N. Company is sparing neither trouble nor expense in adding popularity to its fine line of steamers travelling between Sydney and Newcastle and the latest outcome of this effort is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missionary Schooner Wrecked
Intelligence has been received that a Presbyterian missionary schooner has been wrecked on a reef off Malo Island, in the New Hebrides. All bands wore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the German Ship Hugo. (From the Herald.)
Among the passengers who arrived on Thursday by the steamer Lubeck from Samoa was Captain Casseboom.latecommander of the German ship Hugo which was lost on a reef near the Phoenix Group on…
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The steamer Macgregor broke her propetlor and lost her rudder between Wanganui and Taranaki (N.Z. coast), and is now missing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Unsinkable Lifeboat
The Scientific American of June 25 has cuts and a description of a lifeboat that is claimed to be unsinkable, and self-righting, under all circumstances, in the most heavy sea; and to be able to carry a large number of persons, in proportion to her size, in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wreck of the Steamer Perth. (By telegraph to the Daily Telegraph.)
Perth, Sunday.—The steamer Perth was wrecked halfway between Carnarvon and Ashburton on the night of the 13th inst. The passongers, numbering about 20, were asleep when they felt a great shock,…
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The British Treasury has cabled a reply to the one sent jointly by the various colonies to the effect that the latter decline to reopen the agreement with regard to the Ocean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Derry Castle. the Story of the Survivors
THIS is a thirilling story of the sea. Not one of those that the Marryatts, Coopers, and Clark Russels have evolved, but a true tale of misery, sufferin, peril ; of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Lime Schooner. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Melbourne
The schooner Rubicon, which has been trading for some years as a lime craft between Melbourne and Waratah Bay, was totally wrecked' at the latter place on Monday night. She was alongside…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Accident to the Steamer Maitland. the Marine Board's Inquiry. [Bt Telegraph From Greville's Company.] Sydney, Wednesday evening
The Marine Board this morning held a meetings for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances attending the breakdown of the steamer Maitland on the 12th instant, whilst on her voyage from…
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On the night of the 3rd instant, the smack Cygnet, of Yarmouth, landed at that port five of the crew of the iron four-masted ship, Falls of Bruar, Glasgow, the other part of the crew,…
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On Thursday we received from our telegraphic agents, Greville's Telegram Company, several messages giving particulars of the wreck of the steamer Cheviot at Point Nepean, Port Phillip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, October 22, 1887. The Wreck of the Cheviot
From the Daily telegraph of yesterday we take the following narratives of thin disastrous wreck: CAPTAIN RICHARDSON'S STATEMENT. We left tbe wharf at a quarter past 4 p m. on Wednesday,…
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