Steamer Excursion
THE Kempsey Good Templars must feel proud of the success which attended the excursion to the New Entrance on Monday last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
98 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 5
The Steamer Excursion
JUST at 5 o'clock last Monday morning the whistle of the steamer Coraki was heard loud and shrill from the Wingham wharf, reminding intending…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Year's Wreck Roll
ACCORDING to the returns respecting the number of vessels that met with disaster on this coast during the past year it would appear that no fewer than twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer Aground. Sydney, Firday
The North Coast Co's. steamer Tomki is aground at Ballina, Richmond River…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner
A considerable amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a few hours after being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on a Crowded Intercolonial Steamer
MESSRS. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Tyrian, which arrived at Port Jackson last Friday, bad an exciting experience on the voyage from Melbourne to Sydney She had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Steamer Wakefield on the Forster Bar. Her First Trip. Forster
This afternoon the steamer Wakefield arrived off the bar shortly after dinner time on her first trip here. She is an iron boat lately purchased in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schooner Ashore. Sydney
The schooner Talbot, bound from the Manning River to Sydney, has gone ashore at Fingal Bay, Port Stephens. The vessel is in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Unstable Life-boat
A lifeboat has been invented which it seems impossible to sink. It has been put to severe tests in which a crew of twelve men capsized the boat, ran it on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Ashore. Sydney
The steamer Orara is ashore at the Tweed River in a very bad position. Further particulars state that the Orara struck the bar when passing in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney Steamer
The steamer Macleay will leave Sydney for the Macleay this (Saturday) evening. Mails and passengers for the return trip will leave Kempsey at 3…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Steamer Damaged
The steamer Pretoria has been seriously damaged, but has arrived at Plymouth. Fruitless searches have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Type of Steamer
MR. DONALDSON, of Sydney, has designed a new type of harbour steamer. He says that the vessel constructed from his model will be absolutely free…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms in the Atlantic. Sinking of a Steamer
When last sighted on the 5th instant, the Hamburg-American liner steamer Bulgaria was sinking. The holds were full of water, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Bulgaria Sinking when last Seen, Holds Full of Water. London, February 14
WHEN last sighted on the 4th instant, the Hamburg-American line steamer Bulgaria was [?]luking. The holds wore full of water, and her rudder and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Germanic Overweighted by Ice. Sinks in New York Harbor. London. February 14
THE C[?]uard line steamer Germanic, of 5066 tons, while at the pier at New York, overweighted by ice and coal suddenly listed. The water poured into the ports, and the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Talbot
THE following letter has been received by Mr. H. J. Cornish, J.P., of Cundletown, from Capt. Gittins, and hog been kindly handed to us for publication :—Fingall Bay, Port Stephens,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Westerly Gales on the British Coast. Many Wrecks. London, Feb. 14
A HEAVY westerly gale continues to blow over Great Britain and Ireland. Many wrecks have occurred. The United States have this year s[?]cured a won…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Orara to Be Abandoned. Sydney
The Orara, which went ashore at the Tweed last week, has not yet been floated. Efforts made to float the steamer by pumping failed owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Steamer Trade. To the Editor of the Wingham Chronicle
DEAR SIR,—I think it about time the Manning River residents made some stir in the matter of getting the North Coast Company to send a sailing or cargo…
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