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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
11 stories in Illawarra's papers
The most serious steamboat collision that the taken place on our coast happened last night between the Melbourne Steam Company's steamer Barrabool (Captain Clark) and the steamer Bonnie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Herald's telegraphic correspondent gives the following particulars of the wreck of the above named vessel on Saturday night last:—Newcastle, Saturday: A very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANOTHER of our coasting steamers, the Monaro, has succumbed to the fate that has befallen too many others, notwithstanding that the coast of New South Wales is, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The little veteran steamer Kiama called at this port, on Wednesday morning last from Moruya, having on board Captain Shoed, of the illfated Monaro, and also all the crow and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A story is told of the wreckers in Cornwall. A ship was reported as coming ashore on a Sunday when all hands were at church. The clergyman seeing his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE schooner Lovett .Peacock from Townsville to Sydney, went ashore off this port last night, and one of the hands, Alexander Smith, sailmaker on board, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The circumstances under which the lives of the crow of the wrecked barque Trinculo were saved are of a somewhat sensational character, although they were not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the lady of the Lake was held yesterday, at the Marine Board, before Captain Fox and Messrs. Bloomfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE boisterous weather of the past week has had the effect of adding two more to the already long list of shipwrecks which have occurred on the south coast. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UNFORTUNATELY for the I. S. N. Company and the shippers of the Bega and Merimbula districts, the steamer John Penn has been lost by striking on Burrowarra Point, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Orient Company's steamship Orient arrived this morning from London, with the longest list of saloon passengers ever brought to Australia…
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