A Steamer Ashore
The steamer Princess sprung a leak when off Broken Bay on Tuesday night last and had to be beached at Barranjoey to prevent her foundering…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
18 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
A Ketch Ashore
While being towed out over the old bar at the Macleay Heads by the tug Volunteer, on Saturday last, the ketch Forster grounded on the south spit…
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The steamer Coraki is advertised to leave Sydney for the Macleay this (Saturday) night. Mails and passengers for the return trip will leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Well-known Steamer Sold. Sydney
The well-known intercolonial steamer City of Melbourne was sold yesterday to Mr. Daniel Sheehy for £410…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wreck of a Schooner
ON Sunday last, while attempting to cross in at the Nambucca Heads, the schooner Alpha was wrecked. The Alpha was being towed over the bar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shipwreck and Loss of Life
One hundred persons have been drowned through the wreck of a Dutch liner off Utretch. Eight persons have also been drowned by the wreck of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Sydney Steamer
The Electra will leave" Sydney for the Macleay direct on Monday night nest. Mails and passengers for her return trip will leave Kempsey at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A New Steamer
The new shallow draught paddle wheel steamer, built by the North Coast Company, ostensibly for the Nambucca and Bellinger trade, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wreck on the Coast. All Hands Saved
ON Sunday afternoon last, Mr. James Maxwell, who is employed by Mr. W. Hibbard, of the New Brighton Hotel, Crescent Head, came into Kempsey…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Terara Ashore
On Sunday while crossing the bar at the New Entrance, the Terara was swung round by a heavy sea and went ashore. She was loaded with 900…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreck of a P. AND O. Liner. London
News has reached London that the R.M.S. Aden has been wrecked off the island of Scrotra, near the Gulf of Aden. Seventy-five lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Wreck of the Meda
OFFICIAL intelligence as to the wreck of the mission schooner Meda in British New Guinea was received by the Wesleyan Mission authorities in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wreck of a Steamer. Sydney
News has been received that Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co's steamer Tasmania has been wrecked on the New Zealand coast. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Steamer Sunk. London
Owing to a collision off the coast of Hungary the steamer Ska was sunk. Twenty-six lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →News by Wire. Disastrous Shipwreck. London
Owing to the ballast shifting during a heavy gale, the barque Cordillero foundered near Valparaiso. All on board were drowned, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Schooner Ashore. Sydney, Sydney
The schooner Phillip Palfrey is still aground at the Nambucca Heads. It is expected the vessel will have to discharge her cargo before she can…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreck of the Fitzroy
ANOTHER of those unaccountable shipwrecks, by which the maritime history of the colony is frequently punctuated, occurred at an early hour on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked in Port
During last week the "Bessie Maud" ketch came up to McGeary's Crossing, above Raleigh, Bellinger River, to load spokes. It appears she reached…
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