Steamer Tathra Founders. Loss of Life Feared
NEWS reached Sydney on Friday last from the New Hebrides of the foundering of the steamer Tathra at the New Hebrides group. The…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1912
13 stories in Illawarra's papers
Mammoth Triple Screw Steamer. for the White Star Line Australian Service
The Managers of the White Star Line have been the pioneers in many great developments in modern shipping in different parts of the globe, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Christening the Lifeboat at Stanwell Park
On Saturday the 17th, about three-fourths of the people of Helensburgh travelled to Stanwell Park. The attractions were the Church of England…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Missing Dredge Manchester Fruitless Search of the Eden. Two Wrecks on Middleton Reef
The last ray of hope for the safety of the missing dredge Manchester has been dispelled by the return to Sydney on Monday of the search steamer Eden. after a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Steamer for South Coast Trade
THE Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Ayr, launched last month the twin-screw steamer Bermagui, which they have built for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Founders
On Sunday morning Allen Taylor & Co.'s steamer Comboyne foundered owing to striking the end of the eastern breakwater at Port Kembla. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecked Sailors. Celebrated Their Rescue
Some of the sailors from the steamer Comboyne, which foundered at Port Kembla on Sunday morning celebrated their rescue from a watery grave in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Comboyne. Operations Commenced to Lift the Boat
The work of trying to raise the steamer Comboyne, which foundered off the Port Kembla breakwater on Sunday morning last, was commenced on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of Motor Launch
Whilst Mr.Mennett and the Misses Galvin were waiting along the beach near Fairy Creole on the Friday afternoon they noticed a man lying on the sand,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Moruya Sold. Purchase for Nothern Territory
The well-known South Coast trader, the steamer Moruya, has been sold by the Illawarra and South Coast S.N., Co. to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Shipwrecked. But Attempt at Suicide
It now transpires that Julius do Valcancia, the colored man, who was found on the Fairy Meadow bench on the 13th instant, in a half drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Tilba Ashore
A telegram as received in Sydney on Monday afternoon from Jervia Bay stating that the steamer Tilba had gone ashore at Wreck Bay, and was hard and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tilba a Total Wreck
The Illawarra end South Coast S.N. Company's steamer Tilba, which went ashore at Wreck Bay on Monday morning last, whilst on route to Sydney from…
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