An Old Steamer
The oldest steamer in the world is the Industry, which was built in 1814, and plied for about sixty years on the Clyde, and was finally laid up where she now…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898
218 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 11
The Wrecked Steamer
The Mohegan's crew acted nobly. Captain Griffiths, the commander, perished at his post. The night was pitch dark; most of the life boats were helpless. The victims' cries were board ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late News by Cable. London, Oct. 15, 1898. Wreck of an Atlantic Liner
The Atlantic liner Mohegan, owned by the American Transport Company, has been wrecked. While bound for New York from Southampton her machinery broke down in a gale, and she was…
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The wreck of the Mohegian is attributed, to failure of the compasses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of an Atlantic Liner. LONDON
The Atlantic liner Mohegan, owned by the American Transport Company, has been wreeked. While bound for Now York from Southampton her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Board a Steamer. the Buteshire Much Damaged. Sydney
At 12.30 this morning the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to a fire on board the steamer Buteshire, of 5574 tons, and belonging to the Elderslie line, lying at Smith's Wharf, Miller's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Carle News. New Steamer for the Meat Trade
Messrs. Turnbull and Martin's now meat steamer. The Fifeshire, has been launched…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer on Fire. Flames Brought Under Control. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE fire which broke out on board the steamer Brotshire yesterday afternoon just after the boat arrived from London, carrying a valuable cargo, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Gales and Wrecks
Gales have been prevalent on the British coasts, and steam service to Calais and Ostend has been suspended, whilst wrecks and loss of life have been frequent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Mohegan
The loss of the Atlantic Transport Shipping Company's steamer Mohegan, on the Manacle Rocks, off Falmouth, has now been as e[?]tained to have been due to the magnetic attraction of the Manacles…
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At 12.30 a.m. on Thursday the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to a fire on board the steamer Buteshire, of 5574 tons, and belonging to the Elderslie line, lying at Smith's Wharf, Miller's…
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Whilst on her voyage from New York to London the machinery of the Atlantic liner Mohegan, owned by the American Transport Company, broke down, and she was driven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Cargo Steamer for Australia
Yesterday the Euryalus, a finely-modelled steel screw steamer, which has been built by Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, Jarrow-on-Tyne, to the order of Messrs. A. Cur[?] and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Vessels Ashore
Some sensation, mingled with a feeling of astonishment, was created at the exchange this morning by the posting of a telegram stating that the Tug Port Jackson and the schooners Hannah Nicholson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There Vessels Ashore. (By Telegraph.] Sydney
Some sensation, mingled with a feeling of astonishment, was created at the exchange this morning by the posting of a telegram stating that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Vessel Ashore
The schooner Forster is ashore north of Moruya…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Service
It has been decided that the Messageries Maritime Co.'s steamers in 1899 will leave Adelaide on Saturdays…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Cargo Steamer for Australia
Yesterday the Euryalus, a finely-modelled steel screw steamer, which has been built by Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, Jarrow-on-Tyne, to the order of Messrs. A. Curie and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A British Steamer Wrecked
The British steamer Atalanta has gone ashore at Newport, Yaquina Bay, Oregon, U.S.A. She went to pieces and 28 of the passengers and crow were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mail Steamer Disabled
The mail steamer Dover, running between dover and Calais, has returned to the latter port in a disabled condition, her cyclinder having been cracked…
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