The Lost Ketch. Foundering of the Phil Forbes
Captain Muir, master of the ketch Phil Forbes, which foundered off Broughton Island, arrived in Newcastle on Tuesday afternoon, with the other…
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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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Captain Muir, master of the ketch Phil Forbes, which foundered off Broughton Island, arrived in Newcastle on Tuesday afternoon, with the other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News was received in Sydney on Sunday of the loss of the ketch Phil Forbes off the North Coast. The vessel foundered three miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pilots at Harrington, on the Manning River, and Forster (Cane Hawke), and a settler at Elizabeth Head have reported to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The steamer Houtman, which reached Sydney to-day from Java, struck a cyclone after leaving Brisbane, and for two days the wind howled and seas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steam collier Meeinderry was sunk through a collision with the steamer Wallsend off Newcastle this morning. The vessel managed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The courtyard of the P. and O. offices was the csene of pathetic vigil since early morning. Groups of relatives of the passengers and crew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven stowaways, Michael Dec, Willliam Jones, Martin McKenzie, Jack Roberts, Frank Parker, Richard Melville, and Leslie Brown, all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A quantity of fresh wreckage has been washed on to the beach eight miles to the north of Port Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Inspector-General of Police has received a report from Sergeant Hughes, of Port Macquarie, stating that further wreckage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eighteen of the passengers rescued from the Egypt have arrived in Paris. They say that but for the Lascars all would have probably been rescued. There…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soviet steamer Karl Marx proudly steamed into Hull flying the red flag, and berthed at Victoria Dock. She was fitted with wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An attempt was made to wreck the Brisbane Express train, between Eastwood and Epping, yesterday afternoon, but fortunately the cow-catcher lifted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars of the mishap to the steamer Wiltshire, show that her two holds were full of water and a strong nor-easter was blowing,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the No. 1 division of the Central Police Court, Ronald Edward Bourne, 37, was charged with having falsely pretended to William…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Manchester regiment has been ordered to leave Guernsey for Ireland on June 20. The destroyer Warwick held up a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No further news has been received from the wrecked steamer Wiltshire. The crew is huddled in the forecastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Inspector-General of Police has received a report from Sergeant Hughes, of Port Macquarie, stating that further wreekage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Soviet steamer Kari Marx proudly steamed into Hull flying the red flag, and berthed at victoria Dock. She was fitted with wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Messages received at Auckland on Friday from the scene of the wreck of the steamer Wiltshire stated that the rescue of the crew had proceeded with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 12,000. ton steamer Wiltshire of the Federal Steam Navigation Co., went ashore on the Great Barrier Island (N.Z.) on Wednesday night, and is…
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