Mississippi Tragedy. a Steamer Afire. London, June 27
A Mississippi River boat was burned to the water's edge. Fifteen hundred passengers were saved. When the alarm of fire was given, and…
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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
328 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 17
A Mississippi River boat was burned to the water's edge. Fifteen hundred passengers were saved. When the alarm of fire was given, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The R.M.S. "Malwa" came into collision with the steamer "Nairn" at Colombo, but only received slight damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two of the anchors of the illfated ship Dunbar, which was wrecked pear Sydney Heads 53 years ago next month, and by which over 300 lives were lost, were secured on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After all, time does work wonders. In regard to New South Wales it has worked little short of miracles, especi ally in shipping, and the passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An exciting incident occurred at Sunderland recently when a man and a youth were confined in a veritable death-trap on board the steamer Lavinia Westoll. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three cutters were recently wrecked at Fiji during heavy weather. The passengers and crews of the vessel were lashed to the rigging all night to prevent being washed away by the heavy seas,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The four-masted schooner Annie E. Smale. from Newcastle, March 31, for San Francisco, with a cargo of coal, has gone ashore at Point Reyos, California. It is feared that she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Lovky, 366 tons, owned by the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company, came into collision in the Black Sea with another steamer. The boiler of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lloyd's report that the German steamer Attika has been totally lost through a volcanic eruption, and that the crow have landed [?] Oran, on the Algerian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a dense fog the steamer Minnehai[?], belonging to the Atlantic Transport Line, one of the companies constituting the Morgan shipping combine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An explosion has occurred in the steamer Lonisky, resulting in the loss of 100 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a dense fog the steamer Minnehaha, belonging to the Atlantic Transport Line, one of the companies constituting the Morgan shipping combine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is a statement at Odessa to the effect that 600 persons perished as the result of the collision between the passenger steamer Lowky and a freight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An exciting incident occurred at Sunday land recently, when a man and a youth were confined in a veritable death-trap on board the steamer Lavinia Westoll. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At 1 o'clock to-day the White Star liner Cevie collided with the North Coast steamer Duranbah between Circular Quay and Miller's Point. The Duranbah…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two of the anchors of the illfated ship Dunbar, which was wrecked near. Sydney Heads 53 years ago next month, and by which over 300 lives were lost, were secured on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It is reported that tho American steamer Mongolia, which is stranded oil Shemedyu, Japan, is on a sandy bottom, and it is expected that the vessel will be refloated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Shipwrecked Mariners Society has pre[?]ed Captain Simpson with a self-recording [?]oid, in recognition of his bravery on the [?]sion of the wreck of his vessel, the Pericles,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American steamer Mongolia, 13,639 tons, which was stranded off Shemidyu, Japan, has been refloated. The vessel is not damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out on the steamer Standard. at Copenhagen (Denmark), and reached a cargo of petroleum, which blazed freely All shipping in the…
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