That Shipwreck
IN connection with that" Message from the sea," found in a sohnapps bottle on the Garringong beach last week by Mr. L. J. Banfield, it is believed that the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
8 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Hereward Wreck Sympathy with the Owner
A CONSIDERABLE amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck…
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A life boat has been invented which it seems impossible to sink. It has been put to severe tests in which a crew of twelve men capsized the boat, ran it on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Ashore at Bellambi. the s.s. WERFA
The Bellambi Co's. steamer Werfa (Capt. Keldie), a vessel of 935 tons, which only a fair works ago came out from England, and has since been engaged in the coaling trade…
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CAPTAIN Turner the managing director of the Illawarra S.N. Company, will be a passenger to London by the R.M.S. Ophir, leaving Sydney on Wednesday next…
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THE raising of the steamer Tasmania, sunk off the coast of New Zealand, will be accomplished it bags of [?] can do it according to a report by the Westralia. Mr. Porter…
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Shortly before 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the Union Steamship Company's steamer Tekapo, bound from Sydney to Port Kembla for coal and coke, went…
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A telegram from Perth (W.A.) states that the barque Carlisle Cart[?], bound from Liverpool to Freemantle, has been wrecked off Rockingham. All hands are supposed…
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