Sinking of a Steamer
A collision occurred yesterday between the steamer Kinkwall and the barque Tasmania, as a result of which the former vessel was sunk. All hands were…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
256 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 13
Wreck of the Palgrave
The wreck of a Newcastle ship is reported. The vessel involved is the fourmasted barque Palgrave, which was bound from Newcastle to Coquimbo, on…
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The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Otalki has been launched on the Clyde…
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The missing steamer Devon has been reinsured at 30 guineas per cent…
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The best offer for the barque Palgrave, wrecked off Cape Lengua de Vaca, Chili, while on a voyage from Newcastle to Coquimbe, is £50. This offer includes the cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late News by Cable. London, Aug. 24. Norwegian Steamer Wrecked
Advice have been received from Bergen, Norway, that the Norwegian steamer Folgefonden, [?]10 tons, stranded at Skaanevik, and sank in three minutes. Of 83 passengers aboard it is feared 40…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Missing Steamer. Adrift for Twenty-five Days
There is much concern left about the drifting steamship Hawea, which on Tuesday was reported as being 25 days adrift. A number of vessels have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Tasmania
The steamer Tasmania which came into collision with the barque Kinkwall off the coast of England a few weeks ago, and which returned to Gravesend for repairs, has resailed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensation in Shipping Circles. Tug and Steamer Collide. Sydney
A great sensation was caused in shipping circles early this morning, when the steamer Suva, which left Sydney about midnight for Newcastle, returned to port with a…
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The steamer Dunearn, while bound from Karatsu to Singapore, capsized in a typhoon off the Coto Islands. Only the third third mate and the engineer were saved out of a crew of 13 whites…
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The steamer Dunearn, while bound from Karatsu to Singapore, capsized in a typhoon off the Coto Islands. Only the third mate and the engineer were saved…
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The missing steamer Hawea, of the Union S.S. Company, which had been drifting for about a month with a broken shaft, has been picked up by the same…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Gales Raging. Wrecks and Rescues. London, Sept. 2
The barque Amazon, 1901 tons, laden with coal, was wrecked in Swansea Bay, Glamorganshire yesterday. Twenty out of a crew of 28 were drowned. The desperate struggles of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found in a Drifting Boat. Story of Shipwreck and Adventure. Boy's Imagination
Alfred Straschitz, 15 years of age, who was picked up on the beach at Mornington, Victoria, told a story of shipwreck and adventure, which shows the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gales in English Channel. Wrecks and Rescues. London
The barque Amazon, 1901 tons, laden with coal, was wrecked in Swansea Bay, Glamorganshire, yesterday. Twenty out of a crew of 28 were drowned. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Ketch Jeera Lost. All Hands Saved
News reached Sydney yesterday of the total loss of the island trading ketch Jeera, at Orokole, near the head of the Papuan Gulf. All hands succeeded in safely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ketch Jeera Lost. All Hands Saved
News reached Sydney yesterday of the total loss of the island trading ketch Jeera, at Orokole, near the head of the Papuan Gulf. All hands succeeded in safely…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Aerial Navigation. Wrecked in Mid-Air. London
Major von Parseval's balloon yesterday met with the fate which attended the invention of Count Zeppelin. While travelling over Doberitz, Westphalia, it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Aeon. Additional News
Additional news was received on Sunday morning from Fanning Island by Reuter's Agency as follows:—"They have plenty of provisions for some time, but are hard up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Steamer Aeon. Ashore on Christmas Island
News was received at Sydney on Saturday morning that the steamer Aeon, which left San Francisco on July 5 for Sydney, and had not since been…
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