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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
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THE steamer Ariosto, bound from Galveston (Texas) to Hamburg, has been stranded in Ocracoke Inlet, in North Carolina. Twenty-one of the crew who took to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A DISASTROUS landslip is reported from Amalfi, a seaport town on the Gulf of Salerno, in southern Italy. An enormous rock, which formed the site…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Christmas time the Boers varied the order of the siege at Ladysmith by firing into the town unloaded shells containing plum pudding and messages…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE steamer Borghese has foundered near Cape Finisterre. Only nine of the crew were saved, twenty-two persons being drowned. London, January 5…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Last Saturday Mr. J. Baldwin gave a trial trip of his new steamer the Yankee Jack. About 90 persons availed themselves of his kind invitation and the the new boat steamed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday last a trial trip of Mr. J. L. Baldwin's new steamer, "Yankee Jack," was made. A party of about 90 persons were taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEWS has just been received by the Marine Department that the China steamer Airlie, a steel screw vessel of 2337 tons, bound from Hongkong, has gone ashore on Chatham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1800, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →(I. Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHAPTER II. I lay by the side of poor Jack Dogherty's dead body; a prey to hunger and thirst, for the men in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →My companions, Pedro and Baptista, stayed as much as possible in their hammocks during this rough journey, but I could not help feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. J. Thomson, J.P. (Mayor) has received the following telegrams from Dr. Thompson, of the Board of Health, re the supervision of the Sydney steamer trading to the Manning, and has kindly handed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our camp in the evening was under a hill with a side like a cliff, on top of which was perched a village, which my hammock-men told me was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1800, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my last uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just a line Mr. Editor to let you know we have not got the plague in our midst yet. While on this subject I would like to mention that I notice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I at once agreed to his proposition, and he brought a mixture of grease and dirt, with which he smeared over me, and then, wrapping a dirty cloth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I at once agreed to his proposition, and he brought a mixture of grease; and dirt, with which he smeared over me, and then, wrapping a dirty cloth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE steamer Sarah Fenwick, belonging to the Fenwick line of steamers, while crossing the bar at midnight last night, struck the spit just inside the northern breakwater, and bent her shaft. She then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A REPORT from Cunninghame, at the Gippsland Lakes entrance, states that the missing steamer Glenelg has been wrecked. So far, only one survivor (the steward) has…
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