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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
73 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 4
WHEN the Kingsley was wrecked at Mania Point, near Port Stephens, she had 10 persons on board; six of a crew all told, including Capt. Norman Bain, Wm. Russell (first engineer) and W. Robins (mate);…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE was a representative gathering on board the North Coast Company's new steamer Kyogle last week. Mr. T. R. Alt (managing t director), presided, and among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SERIOUS shipping disaster is reported from the Manning Heads. Early on Monday word was received locally that the steam tug Florrie Ellison, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steam tugboat Florrie Ellison, which had just been chartered from Mr. J. B. Paul, of Sydney, for the sum of £51 19s 6d per calendar month, for towing and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tag Florrie Ellison, a vessel well known at Sydney, was wrecked yesterday at the bar entrance to the Manning river. The vessel, which had been subsidised by the Government for the tug service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram was received an Monday stating that the steam tug Florrie Ellison, which went aground whist crossing the Manning River bar on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Weight's new steamer, S S. Bellinger, which so firmly clung to her ways on Thursday, was,. I am pleaded to state, successfully launched…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Deakin has cabled to the Imperial Authorities asking for the assistance of British warships to search for the missing steamer Boveric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Narrung. one of the Lund line, has brought the steamer Bovine safely to Fremantle. The Tatter left Melbourne on March 2lst, having on board 760 horses. When 760 horses, When the Boveric left Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram from Harrington, Manning River, on Saturday, stated that the North Coast Company's steamer Electra, when crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE s.s. Electra arrived off the Meaning bar on Wednesday morning, but had to proceed to Crowdy Bay, owing to there being too much sea on for her cross in. On Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE township of Coopernook was all agog with excitement on Saturday last, the day appointed for the launching of Messrs. Langley, Bros.' new steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner Advance missed stays off Botany yesterday morning, and was driven on the rocks, where she foundered. Captain, [?]ngstroon was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Advance went on the rocks at Henry Head last week and became a total wreck, the captain being drowned. The Advance was one of the oldest and best vessels on the coast, and had for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN many quarters the idea seems still to prevail--and we gave expression to it quite recently in an article on 'Some Early Steamships'--that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN connection with the strike at Paterson, New Jersey, several mills have been wrecked, and the workers ejected by the mob. There was a fierce straggle between the police and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON the arrival of the ketch Zelma in Port Macquarie from Sydney on Monday morning, the captain reported having encountered a heavy gale and rough seas. At 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, the seas ran…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN many quarters the idea seems till to prevail—and we gave expression to it quite recently in an article on 'Some Early Steamships'—that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following remarkable story of a sea tragedy is here published for the first time in Australia. More lucidly than any narrative of recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Kincumber, in entering port to-day, got a wire rope round her propeller, and went ashore on the rocks abreast of the the flag-staff at the heads…
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