A River Steamer Catastrophe. Passengers Roasted Alive
LONDON, Thursday.—Further details with respect to the burning of the river steamer at Louisiana, on the Mississippi, United States, shows that the fire…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
10 stories in Illawarra's papers
Terrible Tale of Shipwreck
The screw steamer Timor, of Newcastle, owned by Messrs. Nelson and Dolkin, arrived in the Tyne on 27th October, bringing particulars of a shipwreck and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Peterborough in the Ulladulla Trade
On Thursday evening last (says the Milton Express), a meeting convened for the purpose of interviewing some of the Directors of the Shell-harbor Steam Navigation Company as to sending…
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News has been received from Calcutta of the extremely narrow escape from death of the Hereditary Duke and Duchess of Oldenburg. Their Royal Highnesses were on a…
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BRISHANE, Tuesday.—The post and Telegraph Department notifies that the following report has been received from Double Island Point—"Six of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Total Wreck Off the Kiama Baths. the Ketch Ino Completely Broken Up
WEDNESDAY night last was, as our readers are aware, a very dirty, dark and wet one, and the impenetrableness of the darkness was more keenly felt by the weary mariner…
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AT about 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday night last the Ketch Ino, of Sydney, 40 tons, Captain Banister, bound from Wollongong to Moruya with a cargo of coals…
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THE Alta California publishes a telegram from New Bed ord (U.S.), in which it is stated that the report of Lieutenant-Commander Stockton of the United…
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THE Alta California publishes a telegram from New Bedford (U.S.), in which it is stated that the report of Lieutenant-Commander Stockton of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Total Wreck of the Schooner Scotia
ON Thursday night last, about 10 o'clock, this vessel, which traded between Sydney and this port for a considerable time past in the blue metal trade, became a total wreck…
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