Select Poetry the Life-boat and Her Crew
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE "NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION." I love to think of the noble Craft Streaked with the white and blue;…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1876
27 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2
Loss of the Steamer Deutschland
DECEMBER 8.—Captain Bruckenstein, of the Deutsehland, who was Harwich today, gives the following particulars of the loss of his vessel—He left Bremerhafen on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of the Steamer Colima. Wellington, N.Z.
The P.M.S. Co.'s steamer Colima, which Sydney on the 12th March, with the mails and passengers for San Prancisco, to be transhipp[?] the Granada at Kandawau, and then to taken [?]…
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Mr Eliot Mullens gives the following graph[?]o account of the late lamentable wreck of the steamer Banshee, on Hinckinbrook Island:— All went well till [?]een, when th wind increased,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shellrarbor. the Dairy Maid Steamer
Saturday was a gala day at Shellbarbou, [?] celebration of the arrival in the harbour of the [?] craft was a demonstration of no ordinary chars[?] for our little township. The event excited a m[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Shellharbour. the New Steamer Dairymail
SATURDAY last was a gain day at Shallharbour. The celebration of the arrival in the harbour, of the new craft was an demonstration of no ordinary character for our little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Wreck—390 Pilgrims Drowned. Bombay, March 8
The steamer Jowerd has been wrecked. She left Jeddah on the 16th January with upwards of 400 pilgrims. On the same night she struck on a reef known as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Strathmore. Galle, February 24
The arrival at Galle of the survivors from the ship Strathmore, lost on Crozet Island in July last, created sensation. A relief fund and assistance in clothing were…
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The Glenaray was wrecked on the 1st March, of Black Gang Chine, Isle of Wight, and has gone is pieces. About 150 bales of wool have come ashes and several casks of hides. More wool will…
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THERE was considerable sensation throughout the town on Friday night, especially amongst the seafaring portions of the community when it became known that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the S. S. Javad. the Gunner's Narrative
THE Times of India gleans the following particulars of this calamity from one of the survivors, Peter Augustine, the gunner. The Javad, he states, left Jeddah in charge…
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We mentioned in our last issue, says the Cornwall Chronicle of May 20, that several reports had reached the town about wrecks in the Straits, We are now indebted to…
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Latest despatches from New York contain particulars of the burning of the steamer Mary Bell at Vicksburg on the 28th February. The vessel was…
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IF former instances of shipwreck on our coast have been attended with more disastrous consequences and harrowing details of than of life, a more mournful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegraphic Despatches. Wreck of an Emigrant Ship. Adelaide
The ship Lightning, with 406 emigrants, [?] ashore at Trowbridge, three miles nearer short than where the Iron King was wrecked. The accident occurred in broad daylight yesterday,…
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THE Border Watch of the 8th instant has the following further particulars respecting the loss of the Geltwood:— When the vessel was wrecked, and under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Lightning. (S. A. Advertiser.)
WHILE the news of the wreck of the Geltwood, on the eastern coast and its disastrous consequences, was fresh in the minds of the public, information reached Adelaide,…
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A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted on board the steamer Pelican, on the night of the 24th or 25th of April, between Mitho and Vinlong. We give all the information…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Wreck of the Barque Agnes. Adelaide, Tuesday, 10 p.m
THE barque Agnes, bound from Sydney to Adelaide with a cargo of coal, went ashore this morning, at 5 o'clock, in Macdonnell Bay, close to Carpenter's rocks. The ship's…
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The barque Agnes passed Cape Northumberland light at 2 a.m., and than steered W. by N. half N. to 3 a.m., then N.W. for fifteen minutes, then N.W. and by W. till 5, when she struck. The…
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