Steamer Collisions. London
During a dense fog on the Irish coast the Cunard liner Campania cut the barque Embletot completely in two. The first and second mates and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900
107 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 5 of 6
Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting. Chapter Xxvii
The lion was evidently not thinking of us, but challenging a rival, for we soon heard answering roars in the opposite direction, also drawing nearer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Shipping Disaster at Cape Hawke. Schooner "Empress of India" Stranded. Tuncurry. July 25th
The above-named vessel now lies embedded on the sand-spit just inside the bar. She was bound from Port Macquarie to Sydney with a full…
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During a heavy gale yesterday the scho[?]ner Empress of India attempted to cross in for sh[?]lter. Gettign inside the bar, she grounded on a sand spit, and remained fast…
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We crossed the Luspula in canoes, which had been ordered to be ready, and found on the opposite side a body of two hundred men, who appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting
(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 →The Wreck of the Empress of India. the Tale of the Survivors
AT the inquest on the body of John Gleeson, the cook of the Empress of India, who was one of the three of the crew drowned, the following evidence was given. We extract…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting
(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…
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The forces he took with him were apparently ample to destroy the whole country, and certainly they never spared friend or foe, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Steamer and the Bar
RECENTLY at Forster, the people in requesting the Ministers for Works to send the Harbor Dredge Antleon to work there, claimed to have the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Less of the Steamer Futami Maru. Passengers Saved. London
THE Japanese mail steamer Futami Maru, 3800 tons, which left sydney for Manila, Hongkong, and Yokohama on August 2, in command of Captain Them, has been wrecked at Mindoro, one of the…
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NEWS from London on Monday states that the Japanese Mail Steamer Futami Maru has gone ashore on Mindoro Island, the most southerly of the Philippine group…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Trade
The question which is at the present time exciting the greatest amount of local interest and discussion is the steamer trade with Sydney. There is a very general concensus of…
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THE steamer Moresby had a terrible experience between Sydney and New Britain, on her Island cruise. The captain says it was the roughest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Kingsley on Forster Bar. Sept. 8
The steamer Kingsley, when crossing the bar outwards for Sydney on Thursday evening last, grounded in the channel, and lay in a dangerous position during the day, near the rocks—the seas…
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THE steamer Moresby had a terrible experience between Sydney and New Britain, on her Island cruise. The captain says it was the toughest passage they have had since the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer for the Hastings River Trade
Mr. Nicholas Cain, a well known local ship-owner, has given an order for a new steamer for the Hastings trade. Her dimensions are to be:--…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wreck of the Lord of the Isles. Sufferings of the Crew
The crew of the wreck barquentine Lord of the Isles have arrived at Auckland from Kaipara. The mates states that the vessels left Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foundering of a Ketch
THE ketch Alfred Fanning, after discharging a load of coals down the river, reports the Coopernook correspondent of the Manning Times, was proceeding to the Bock Mill in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Steamer Coraki. Sunk in 16 Feet of Water
THE North Coast Co.'s steamer Coraki was practically wrecked on Thursday morning last, and she now lies in the main channel at the New Entrance in 15 foot of water. From the accounts to hand it appears…
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