The Late Wreck
In the Cheviot wreck, 35 persons perished, consisting of 12 steerage passengers and 23 of the officers and crew of the steamer. Seven bodies…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3
Wreck of the S.S.Cheviot near Port Phillip Heads. 36 Persons Drowned
MESSRS HOWARD SMITH AND SONS Steamer Choviot (764 tons register) was driven on shore on Tuesday night on what is known as the Back Beach;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Cheviot. (By Telegraph from the S. M. Herald.) Melbourne
The wreck of the Cheviot was this morning in the same position as at sunset yesterday evening. The stern-part remains above water, but the seas are continually washing over it. As the tide rose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loss of a Steamer and Thirteen Lives
A telegram from Rouen, dated September 22, states that the steamer Romeo, of Liverpool, bound for Rouen, with a cargo of 2800 tons of maize, sank near Lavaquerie. The vessel ran ashore, but lay in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Explosion on Board a Royal Mail Steamer
Nine men were killed by an explosion which occurred on board the Royal Mail Company's steamer Elbe, on September 19. The steamer, it appears, has just been fitted with triple-expansion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russian Uskl Ashore
[?] of the Russian Squadron in the pacific has gone ashore at Vladivostock…
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