A Profitable Wreck
THE P. and O. steamer Australia, which was wrecked on June 22, 1904, still rests on the Cosair Rock of Point Nepean (Vic)., in spite of the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
59 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 3
Sailor's Remarkable Experience. Shipwrecked Eight Times. Round the World Without Touching Land
Jorgen, 'Jorgenson, a Norwegian sailor left the port of Tromsoe on April 3, 1902, He returned in January. 1905. Between these two dates…
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A large quantity of wreckage is ashore near Tairua, New Zealand, indicating the loss of some vessel unknown…
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THE A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Warrego sank at her moorings at the company's Kangaroo Point Wharf on Saturday night. For some weeks…
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The schoooer Hercules has been wrecked in the Gilbert Group by being driven on a reef during storm. All hands got ashore safely…
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The mail steamer Sierra, which reached Auckland, from San Francisco, brings particulars of the loss of the steamer Valencia, which went ashore…
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The mail steamer Sierra has reached auckland from San Francisco, and brigs [?]rticulars of the loss of the steamer slencia which went ashore near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Wreck of the Sixties the Steamship London. Terrible Loss of Life
Just forty years ago on the 11th January the s.s. London, bound from London to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay, after three or four days' battling…
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Wreckage belonging to a timber sailing vessel, about 500 tons, was sighted 300 miles east of Sydney, in the wake of vessels trading to New Zealand. A mast with a yard attached was about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ashore at Port Macquarie. the Hastings on the Beach. Port Macquarie
THE steamer Hastings, in attempting to cross the bar outward at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, took the ground, and remained fast on the north spit, one hundred yards north of the outer end of the…
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The Norwegian steamer Thordis, bound for Manilla, was swept out of her course during the south-east gale, and while entering Fort Stephens on…
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THE Norwegian steamer Thordis was driven ashore yesterday while entering Port Stephens during the gale. She has been abandoned, and is likely to become…
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The steamer Hastings, which grounded on the North Spit, about 100 yards north of the outer end of the breakwater, on Saturday afternoon, has…
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THE steamer Thordis, which was wrecked at Port Stephens Heads on Sunday last, was only Seven years old. She was a steel screw steamer of 3735 tons register, and was built at Sunderland in…
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THE steamer Hastings, which grounded on the North Spit, about 100 yards north of the outer end of the breakwater, on Saturday afternoon, has moved in about 200 yards from where she first struck…
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The Norwegian steamer Thordis, which struck the rooks at Port Stephens on Sunday morning, now lies with her back broken According to latest information, it will not…
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The steamer Ha[?] in trying to [?] out on Saturday afternoon, last week, got fast owing to insufficient water being on the bar, and was driven on to the north spit-just…
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IT is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds cut of the wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wind Still Invincible. British Airship's Fine Flight Ends in a Wreck. Thrilling Story of a Momentous Trip
The much-discussed and long-delayed experimental trip of the Barton Rawson airship took place from the grounds of the Alexandra Palace, and…
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By advertisement in another column it will be noticed that Mr. N. Cain intends trading regularly to this river with his line of steamers. The…
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