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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
20 stories in Illawarra's papers
LONDON, December 2,—The steamer La Plain, from Gravesend to Rio Grande del Sud, chartered by Siemens Brothers to repair cable telegraph, foundered off Ushant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Havana, December 4—The Spanish coasting steamer, Tomas Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo, struck yesterday morning on Morrillo, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Times states that the steamer Horseguard, of Leith, has brought into port M'Coramack and Foster, the third engineer and one of the firemen of the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram date from Brisbane on and appearing, in the 'Herald' of the following day says:— The Leichardt (s.) has arrived from Cooktown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Leader, from P[?]mere, arrived at Cardiff on January 11, bringing with her four of the survivors of the Certes, of London, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on December 16…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE schooner Leader, from Palermo, arrived at Cardiff on January 11, bringing with her four of the survivers of the Cortes, of London, which foundered in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR E Thompson, of Leadenhall-street London, writes to the Echo as follows:— "I have been connected with the emigration trade to the Australian colonies,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following full account of the terrible disaster on the Barrier Reef, was prepared by one of the survivors, Mr. Fitzgerald for the South Australian Register[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CORRESPONDENT of the Alta supplies the following account:— On the night of December 17, at 11 25, the alarm of fire was given. The weather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Sunday morning last, at 9.30, the ketch Bernard and Isabel, which had been engaged in the coasting trade between Sydney and Shoalhaven for the past eighteen months,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS steamer has been built expressly to obviate the disagreeable accompaniments of the sea passage between Dover and Calais, across the English Channel, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Water Police Court, on Thursday last, Daniel Macquarie, shipbuilder, and George Budge and Edward Woolmer were charged with having unlawfully and maliciously attempted to destroy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the arrival of the Lord Ashley (s.), we (Herald) learn of the complete wreck of the A. S. N. Co.'s steamer Rangatira on a reef off the coast of New Caledonia. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible disaster has occurred off the Scilly Island. On the night of May 7, the mail steamer Schiller, on her voyage from New York to Plymouth, ran on the Retarrier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steam screw launch, 50 feet in length by 10 feet beam, was tried on the Thames on Wednesday afternoon, preparatory to her dispatch to the East Coast of Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is rarely that a typhoon happens at such an early period of the year as the present. Though less violent and less destructive than the visitation of last September, it has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. F. Stephen's lifeboat, the Alice, started on her voyage from Melbourne to Sydney on Saturday afternoon, leaving the St. Kilda pier at half-past 2 o'clock. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following account of the wreck of the Isabella is 'given to the Brisbane Courier by the chief officer, Mr. Gullier:— The Isabella, ship, 780 tons, of Ply mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Few great wrecks save been so satisfactorily managed us that in which the good steamship Boyne was the principal actor. The ship struck the rocks on its way from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pall Mall Gazette's Copenhagen correspondent writing on the 6th October says:—From the additional particulars which I have gathered about the burning…
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