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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
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THE steamer Oakland this morning stranded on the Richmond River bar. She struck the new south training wall, and is likely to become a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHILE crossing the Richmond River bar at 6.30 this morning, with a cargo of 300 tons of coal from Newcastle, the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steel screw steamer Oakland (of 398 tons, built, in 1890 at Dunbarton)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHILE crossing the Richmond bar at 6.30 a.m. on Monday morning last, the steamer Oakland, with a cargo of coal on board from Newcastle, bumped…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THERE is great anxiety felt here regarding the safety of the fore-and-aft schooner Toogoloo, one of our regular traders to Sydney, which was built here some few years ago by Mr. Henry Miles, junr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. Norman C. Lockhart, secretary to the Department of Navigation, on being informed on Saturday of the report current as to the supposed accident to the steamer Commonwealth, immediately wired for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cobra was a sister vessel to the Viper, which was wrecked during the naval man[?]uvres. She had just been completed at Elswick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LATEST cables give some particulars of the wreck of the torpedo destroyer, Cobra, on Wednesday last, during her trial trip. She struck at 7 o'clock in the morning in terribly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra has been wracked while proceeding on a steam trial from her constructors yard at Newcastle to Portsmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Globe" says that the torpedo boat destroyer Cobra sank in seven fathoms of water, and that there was no rock in her vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN connection with the loss of the torpedo-boat destroy or Cobra, off the coast of Lincolnshire, on Thursday morning', it has been assorted in the Globe that the vowel sank in soren fathoms of water, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE stranded steamer Oakland was successfully floated off on Tuesday last, from her dangerous position on the south breakwater at the Richmond River bar, and towed into the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Cobra wreck has concluded. The jury found that the hull of the Cobra buckled and broke in 10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Superintendent of Navigation has received information from Captan Pott, master of the steamer Lady Musgrave, that large spars, apparently attached…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two steamers left Hobart yesterday in search for the overdue steamer Monowai, which left New Zealand on Tuesday, and is now 5 days overdue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Monowai has been picked up by the Mokoia, and taken to Port Chamers. No details of the accident are yet to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The s.s. Electra is aground on the crossing, but will get off by this evening's tide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUDGE Backhouse and Captains Carvasso and Hay held an inquiry on Monday last, at Sydney, into the circumstances connected with the non-arrival of the schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GREAT gale has prevailed over most of the United Kingdom, accompanied by a phenomenal rainfall. There were numerous wrecks on the coast, and ten lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The gale continued yesterday in Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire. The coasts are strewn with wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt severely in New Zealand on Saturday. The Cheviot post office was wrecked, and an infant killed; and the spire of Christehurch Cathedral was cracked…
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