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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
10 stories in Illawarra's papers
The terrific gale which raged on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last is stated to have been the heaviest experienced along this coast during the past thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Eastern and Australian S.S. Company's. Catterthun, 2179 tone, struck on a reef in the vicinity of Seal Rocks, at 2.25 a.m., on Thursday, and sank within 20…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fore and aft schooner Norman left the port of Wollongong et half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning bound for Sydney with a curse of 80 tons of Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Norman, which left Kiama on Monday last, to load coal at "Wollongong for Sydney, was wrecked on Wednesday. She took 80 tone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday last the Marine Board held an inquiry into the loss of the schooner Norman, which was wrecked on the Bellambi reef at 11.30 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The A.U.S.N. Company's Island Steamer Birksgate, which arrived at Sydney on Friday night last, brought as passengers Captain T. A. Fry and his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday there drew up to the Southern Coal Company's jetty at Port Kembla a steamers beside which all other visiting vessels fade into insignificance. When, some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In connection with the wreck recently discovered by the New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa, at the Auckland Islands, a good deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday evening last another large steamer, the Indra, bel[?]nging to the same company as the Indrani, the large steamer of which a description appeared in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When the China Navigation Company's steamer. Whampoa reached Hongkong from Australia it was found that £500 in gold had been stolen from…
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