The Barque Sokoto Ashore
A MESSAGE was received from the pilot at Manning Heads on Friday morning that a large four-masted barque was ashore on Mermaid Reef. It was lying with two…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
59 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3
The Steamer Yarella
The steamer Yaralla was wrecked at Kaba Point, Fiji. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Thrilling Voyage. Cannibals Prepare for a Feast. Wrecked Crew's Remarkable Escape
Like a chapter from some marine novel roads the experience of Capt. Edward A. Watts, late in command of the ill-fated ship Susquehanna…
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The s.s. Electra crossed into the Manning on Monday at l.20 p.m., after a somewhat protracted trip. Owing to the shiprights having to complete a few details in…
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Looking Spic-and-span the North Coast S. N. Company's new steamer Brundah, which arrived on Sunday evening from Glasgow, berthed at the…
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THE steamer Brundah, which has been built at a cost of £80,000 for the Richmond River trade arrived in Sydney last week. The Brundah, is the finest vessel employed…
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While passing through Port Phillip Heads on Saturday, the steamer Pocabontas struck an unknown obstruction in mid-channel and was seriously damaged. She…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Collision. TUNCURRY & Tug Advance. Tuncurry
The steamer Tuncurry, bound for Cape Hawke, and the tug Advance collided off Norah Head, near Newcastle, at 4 a.m. on Sunday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Collision at Sea. the Steamer Tuncurry Damaged. Sydney
THE steamer Tuncurry, which left Sydney on Saturday night for Cape Hawke, returned to port early on Sunday morning, having been in collision with the tug Advance, after she had passed Norah Head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Co. Steamer Ramornie Placed in the Macleay Trade
THE steamer Burrawong has been superseded, and the Ramornie has been placed in the Macleay trade pending the arrival of the boat which is being specially…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Terrible Fire on a Steamer. Hundreds of Chinese Incinerated. London
THE steamer Hankow with two thousand Chinese and seven European passengers on board, was found to be ablaze fore and aft. The Europeans, awakened by the alarm,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sinking in Mid-ocean. Thrilling Rescue of Liverpool Sailors From a Wreck
A thrilling account of the rescue of seven seamen from the shipwrecked schooner Kipling reaches us from New York, where it was conveyed by…
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The steamer Pakanoa returned after a fruitless search for the abandoned steamer Port Stephens…
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The steamer Ellerslie, just built to the order of Meers. Allen Taylor and Co., Limited, was taken for her official trials on Friday, last week, with very satisfactory results. On the ran dawn she covered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wreck of the Sirio. Treasure Box Robbed
The story of the wreck of the Italian emigrant steamer Sirio, with the loss of 400 lives, on August 6 last, on the Hormigas Shoal, 18 miles from…
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Details were received at Brisbane, ON Friday, by mail, of the burning of the steamer Hankow at Hongkong on October 14th, when considerably over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Harbour Sensation. Narrow Escape of the Schooner Paris
AN exciting incident occurred in Sydney Harbour on Tuesday night, last week, when the well-known schooner Paris, of 77 tons, narrowly escaped being cut in halves by the big interstate passenger liner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Adventures OF Captain Doyle. (Copyright.) PART 5. the Desperate Venture of the Schooner Mary Lane
"We pay your passage over to New York by the Majestic's next sailing," said the affable gentleman behind the counter, "and that is all we can say…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Smallpox at Newcastle. Case on the Steamer Pathan
The steamer Pathan, from Japan, arrived off Nobbys Newcastle at noon on Sunday flying the yellow flag. Dr. Russell, the medical officer at the port,…
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