The Discoverer of the Lifeboat
THE ingratitude of humanity was never more strikingly illustrated than in regard to the inventor of the lifeboat, The discoverers or inventors of all sorts…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891
14 stories in Illawarra's papers
Foundering of a Ketch
THE foundering of the coasting ketch Formosa was reported to the Marine Board on Friday. The vessel it seems, suddenly sprung a leak off the ocean…
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CAPTAIN W. L. WEBBER, the commandant of the P. and O. steamship Assam, reports that on the voyage from Bombay to Aden on November…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Terrific Sea. Damage and Derangement. GENTLEMEN's Bathing-shed Wrecked
A south-easterly gale, accompanied by an unusually heavy sea, raged along the coast during the last few days. Of this there is abundant evidence about…
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Writing in Murray's Magazine on "Great Steamship Lines," Morley Roberts says of the White Star Line boat Majestic (10,000 tons, 16,000…
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MR. AND MRS. W. JAMES, who are making a pleasure tour in the West Indies on board their yacht the bancashire Witch, rescue six shipwrecked sailors, who far…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Steamer for the Stone Trade
A couple of months ago, we notified that Mr. G.L. Fuller, proprietor of the Shell-harbor stone quarries, was having a new steamer built at Brisbane Water for the…
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London, Friday Night.—Thirty English vessels have recently been wrecked off the coast of Labrador, a dependency of Newfoundland, and the most easterly part of…
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The wreck of the Sydney ketch Index is reported by telegram from Brisbane. The vessel was lost on a reef some 18 miles north of Port Douglas, all hands…
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The s.s. Prince Bondonin, which arrived from Antwerp on Saturday, reports a serious catastrophe on October 16 when a terrific explosion was heard in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Jubilee in a Gale. Narrow Escape of Foundering. a Thrilling Experience—the Vessel Returns to Sydney
The surprise occasioned in Sydney by the return of the Ellis liner Jubilee on Tuesday deepened into the wildest excitement when the ship berthed at Pyrmont and it…
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On Tuesday Messrs. Fuller and Son's steamer Dunmore, which is intended for the blue metal trade between Shellhorbor and Sydney, went on her trial trip. The…
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The new steamship, Danmore, built to the order of the firm of Messrs. Fuller & Son, arrived at Long Point, Shellharbour, on Wednesday, and shipped her first carge…
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THE above-mentioned firm's new coastal steamer Dunmore, built expressly for carrying blue metal from the firm's quarry at Long Point to the metropolis, made…
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