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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
22 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
THE weather along the coast during the past week has been the dirtiest experienced for some time, and an anxious time has been spent in Shipping circles. All appears to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two hundred carcases of frozen mutton were destroyed on Sunday, by a fire on the steamship Nairnshire, lying at Mcllwraith's wharf. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Monday evening, a serious accident happened to Pyrmont Bridge, foot of Market-street, and which will entail considerable inconvenience on resident of the busy suburb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Uneasiness is felt in shipping circles at the non-arrival of the schooner, Sydney Bell, from Queensland, now 38 days out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Samuel Ferguson, a Goulburn squatter, disappeared mysteriously from the steamer Tarawera on the voyage from New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SOMEWHAT remarkable evidence of the progress of the Cook Island natives in the arts of civilization is afforded by the presence in Auckland waters of the schooner Takitumu…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Considerable uneasiness is felt in consequence of the steamer Duckenfield having been reported missing. Her hands belong to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North of the Bermuda Islands is an extensive and intricate coral reef which fends off the sea like a breakwater and extends in a semicircular belt to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sydney-owned vessel, the Lady Bowen, has been wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, off the Queensland coast. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ship Asolus, bound from Cape Town to Sydney, has gone ashore off Cape Bank. All hands have been safely landed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rough weather continues along the Australian coast. Two more wrecks are reported, the steamer Eddystone, on the Westralian coast, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most terrible maritime catastrophes of late years occurred early on Sunday morning in the Great Australian Bight, viz., the total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DETAILS of the wreck of the steamer Rodondo en route to Westralia, show the loss of life to be nothing near so great as first estimated. But four passengers are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steam collier Bowra, bound from Newcastle to the Clarence River, foundered off the Seal Rocks on Saturday. All hands were fayed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Union S.S. Go.'s 1786-ton steamer Wairarapa (Capt. J. McIntosh), trading between Sydney and New Zealand, became a total wreck on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest is being held at Auckland, N.Z., on the bodies of the passengers drowned in the wreck of the Wairarapa. In giving evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS was received in Sydney on Thursday of the disastrous wreck of a coal-laden vessel bound from Newcastle to Manila. The barque Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. Clark, second officer of the Wairarapa, has made the following statement in explanation of the disaster:--"We left Sydney on Wednesday, October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Merksworth, bound from Wanganui to Westport (New Zealand), is a week overdue at her destination. Great anxiety in being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Ruby (83 tons), bound from Port Macquarie to Sydney, sprang a leak and foundered on Saturday morning, about 15 miles…
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