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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
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The steam drogher Alexander Berry, bound to Merimbula, was totally wrecked on a detached rock on the end of Point Bass at 8 o'clock this morning. Out of a crew of five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH reference to the loss of the Mansusseb Company's steamer Arslanin the Red Sea on April 1, the following particulars of the disaster are now to hand from one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →REFERRING to the wreck of the Protector, the signal master at the Ballina Lighthouse said there was a terrible sea on the bar. I have seen nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →We have been informed by our Sydney correspondent that the new steamer Hastings will be planed in commission for trade to this port about the end of the present month,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Henry, of the steamer Archer, reports the wreck of a large kerosene ship at Marshall Islands. The dead body of a man, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There appears to be almost an epidemic of tug wrecks on just now. Early on Tuesday morning of last week the well-known tug Thistle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I have been put to much inconvenience by not knowing the movement of the Sydney steamer during the past few days; and I am not the only one. When the public know what day she is leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque "Alexa" has been wrecked at Surprise Island. The passengers and crew reached the northern end of New Caledonia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Montagu is a fine English name, and there is no more worthy holder of it than Rear-Admiral Victor Montagu, who becomes sixty years old shortly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A RATHER serious mishap befel another of Messrs. Fenwick Bros.' fleet of steamers on the Richmond last week. The passenger steamer Sarah L. Hixson had left Coraki at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The court of inquiry into the wreck of the ship "Lizzie Bell," found it was caused by negligent navigation. The captain's certificate was suspended for 12 months, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Montagu is a fine English name, and there is no more worthy holder of it than Rear-Admiral Victor Montagu, who becomes sixty years old shortly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT 2 p.m.on Tuesday last a large number of Port and river people assembled on the Government wharf to view the arrival of the new steamer Hastings. As the steamer made fast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the invitation of Messrs. Allen Taylor and Co. a number of gentlemen went out yesterday on a trial trip in the new steamer Hastings, a vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE Yukon liner Islander struck on an iceberg near Juinearce, Alaska, within a mile from tho shore. It was perfectly calm at the time, but the steamer sank in 25 minutes, and 65 persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquiry into the cause of the stranding of the steamer Vision, at Camden Haven Heads, on June 9 last, was held in No. 2 District Court, Sydney, on Friday afternoon, the court consisting of his Honor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yukon steamer Islander struck an iceberg Junean, Alaska, and sank within 26 minutes, ,65 lives were lost and 107 saved. Gold valued at a million dollars sank in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquiry into the cause of the stranding of the steamer Vision, at Camden Haven Heads, on June 9 last, was held in No. 2, District Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars of the wreck of the Yukon liner Islander, 1495 tons, near Juineau, Alaska, show that the iceberg which the vessel struck was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE iceberg which the Yukon liner Islander struck near Juneau was barely visible above the surface. Many of the victims were asleep at the time, and the force of the impact jammed the doors of the…
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