Wreck of a Whaler. Terrible Loss of Life
From our files to hand by the R.M.S. Zealandia, from San Francisco we have the news of the wreck of the American barque Atlantic and the loss of 29 of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
12 stories in Illawarra's papers
Shipwrecks During 1886
THE following particulars of wrecks which have occurred during the year 1886 on the coast of New South Wales are published for general information…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranding of the Steam-collier Waratah. Lying High and DRY at North Bulli. Apparently a Total Wreck
The steam collier Waratah, 550 tons, Captain M'Auley, well-known ns a trader at this port, but latterly chartered by the North Illawarra Coal Company, on Tuesday last went on the…
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SHORTLY before midnight on Saturday the Austrian barque Gange 1071 tons, bound from London to Melbourne with a cargo of railway iron, cement, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Gange. the Work of the Lifeboat
MR. THOMAS DICKSON, the superintendence of the Queenseliff lifeboat crew, who was found just as he was turning in after the night's work, gave a graphic and most intelligent…
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Considerable alarm was occasioned in town on Saturday Night, when it was rumoured that a quantity of tea was washing up on the beach near Bellambi Point, and it was at once…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Supposed Wreck
CONSIDERABLE alarm was occasioned in town on Saturday night, when it was rumoured that a quantity of tea was washing up on the beach near Bellamb;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Dunbar.—The Rescue of Johnson
THE following is the account given by the Hon. George Thornton of the rescue of the only survivor from the wreck of the Dunbar, on Saturday morning,…
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AT midnight, on August 20, 1857, a splendid Newfoundland dog, the property of Mr. Siddens; the lighthouse-keeper, rushed barking towards the cliffs, and from this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Burn an Atlantic Steamer
AN Irishman named Conrad J. Mooney, 37 years of age, who lives at Brooklyn, attempted to burn the national steamship Queen by means of an explosive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Cheviot. the Cause of the Accident. Melbourne
MESSRS, Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Cheviot, outward bound, became a total wreck last night on Black Bench, at the back of Point Nepean. She steamed and through the Heads…
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THE wreek of the steamer Cheviot at Partesa was total, and disastrous to life The Cheviot passed through the Heads on Wednesday evening at about 8 o'clock on her…
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