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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
17 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Ministerial explanations of the only ambiguous sentences in the Royal message have given the utmost relief and satisfaction in all quarters, and popular agitation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As necessity is said to be the mother of invention, so misfortune may be called the parent of benevolence. Such may be said to have been the case in initiating the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lloyd's agent at Larnaca, Cyprus, in a letter dated March 19, furnishes full particulars of the burning of the Austrian , Lloyd's steamer Sphinx, near Cape Elia, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Blackbird, Captain M'Cromack, with passengers and coals from Newcastle to Melbourne, was wrecked on he Ninety-mile Beach, a little west of Cape Kearney Channel, about 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISS CARMICHAEL is progressing most favourably under the hospitable treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, of Glenammple station. Pearce intends proceeding to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram in the 'Herald,' dated from Melbourne on Friday, says: Miss Carmichael is progressing most favourably under the hospitable treatment of Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 10.—The Allan-line steamship, Sardinian, Captain Dutton, from Liverpool May 9, for Quebec, is on fire at the entrance of Lough Foyle, the harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE evidence given by Mr. Thomas Pearce, the only surviving member of the crew of the Look Ard, tends to prove that the loss of that vessel added another item to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday morning last, about 7.30, the ketch Millowa, 30 tons, Captain Christensten, which loft Sydney, bound for Shoalhaven, on the previous day with a general cargo,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another tale of disaster comes from the sea, and, as in the case of the Loch Ard, is accompanied, so far as can be ascertained at present, with sad loss of life. The wreck,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FINE new paddle steamer, designed for the southern, came into port this morning from Glasgow, via the Suez Canal and Torrea Straits. The vessel is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No doubt exists that the fine vessel Juntos Service, bound from Calcutta, to Melbourne, struck on the Murray Reef, about 40 miles south of Freemantle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF Nature made no provision for the removal of floating wreck from the surface of the ocean, dangers of navigation would increase in a fearful ratio ; floating hulls,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Dairymaid, the property of the Shellharbor Steam Navigation Company, unfortunately sustained a mishap, on Wednesday morning last, which it is to be feared will result in her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INTELLIUGENCE was received in town on Wednesday that the Shellharbour Steam Navigation Company's steamer Dairymaid, 100 Captain Wilson, went ashore off Bulli,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The crew of the Cardiff barque Lady Elma Bruce arrived at Liverpool from Maranbam, in the steamer. Braganza, bringing particulars of the loss of their vessel and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annals of maritime disaster during the past thirty years fail to show any catastrophe entailing such a lamentable loss of life as that which has marked the…
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