Steamer Aramac Wrecked
On Sunday morning last during a hurricane on the Queensland coast, the steamer Aramac, one of the best known vessels of the A.U.S.N. line was totally…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
16 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Lass O' Gowrie Ashore
On Thursday afternoon, the Lass o'Gowrle (for many years employed in the Kiama stone trade) was driven ashore near Cape Tribulation, 40 miles north of cairns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The I.S.N. Co's Steamer Illawarra at Nowra
On Sunday morning last the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company's steamer " Illawarra," under command of Captain Swanson, made a trip up the Shoalhaven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on New York Excursion Steamer. OVER 500 Lives Lost
The cables dated from London on Thursday last stated that an appalling disaster occurred the previous day in New York harbor, an outbreak of fire on board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of R.M.S. Australia
Yesterday morning news was received in Sydney that the P. and O. Company's 6900 ton steamer, the Australia, which was due to arrive in Sydney to-day, was wrecked off…
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The P. and O. Co's. fine steamer Australia on her passage from London ran on the consair rocks at Nepean Point, Port Phillips Heads on Monday morning about 2 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The R.M.S. Australia. the Vessel a Total Wreck
As briefly announced last issue, the P. and O. liner Australia ran into the Corsair Rock at Nepean Point, Port Phillip, early on Monday morning last. The Australia…
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SALVAGE work on board the R.M.S, Australia was resumed on Friday morning, the sea having considerably moderated, and conditions pointing to a continuance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Nemesis. Thirty-two Lives Lost
THE fears at first expressed to the effect that the wreckage strewn on Cronulla Beach, near Botany Bay, was from the steamer, Nemesis, of Huddart, Parker and…
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Up to going to press List night nothing fresh came to hand. It was reported that several bodies had been washed ashore, but the news has yet to the confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queen of Nations. a Famous Wreck. Showing Up Again. a Former Apprentice. Now a Wollongong Business Man
A paragraph appeared in the Sydney papers on Monday to the effect " that during the recent storm the boilers and machinery of the Queen of Nations, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Dom Pedro
On Tuesday, 28th May, 1893, intelligence was received of the loss of the steamer Dom Pedro on the north-west Spanish coast off Carrill, in the province of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Excursion Trip. the Cobar
In this issue the favorite and fast passenger steamer Cobar is advertised for Sunday afternoon excursion on the 25th instant. The steamer, that day, will run a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer in Trouble
Owing to the heavy sea running along the coast, there was a great range in Wollongong harbor on Saturday night. The steamer Mount Kembla broke her moorings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Steamer at Port Kembla. Successfully Lo[?]ed
The large steamer South America loaded 6300 tons of coal at Newcastle and had to come on to Port Kembla to complete on account of insufficiency of water there. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecked at Sea
Some few years age a Swansea vessel was caught in a terrible gale. The captain had his wife on board, and when the wind was still rising he told her to go…
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