The Schooner Louisa Messell
The Louisa Messell, crossing the bar inwards on Sunday evening about 5 p.m., with a heavy sea on the bar, took the ground on the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1888
5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Poetry. Wrecked. a Dramatic Sketch. (Scene--In the Rockies. Characters--Capt. Grant and the prisoner.)
Capt. Grant-- "So you're the pest of the place That I've heard of many a time. Whose fame is known through the Rockies here…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck in Crowdy Bay. HARRINGTON
The Emu came in to Crowdy Bay about 7.30 this morning. She parted her chain about 9.30, and made for the beach, where she now lies, about one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Eliza
NEWS reached Sydney yesterday of the wreck of the ketch Eliza, a well-known coasting vessel, whilst en route from Sydney to the Richmond River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Ocean Vulture. A Creature More Terrible Than The Famous Sea-Serpent. The Captain of a Steamer Relates an Experience That Rivals the Fancies of Fiction--A Boy's Narrow Escape From a Winged Monster
A strange story told by Captain Putt, of the British steamer Talisman, which came around Cape Horn from Liverpool, makes it appear possible that the stories of the sailors…
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