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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
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Widespread damage has been done in Switzerland by exceptionally severe storms. The overflowing of the River Senne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cable steamer Telconia rammed the. P. & O Co's steamer Nile, outward bound for Calcutta, while anchored during a fog off the Nore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Waikare, with 150 excursionists to the West Coast Sounds of New Zealand, struck a rock on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Heron, of the steamer Hawk, representing the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company visited Gloucester, and spent two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The steamer Loodiana, which left Mauritius for Colombo on January 10th with 80 passengers aboard, is reported missing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Brisbane telegram states that the steamer John Douglas reached Cooktown last night. She picked up the missing lifeboat from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WHILST the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Rocklilly was loading steel rails for the N.C. Railway, at Darling Harbour last week, a rail slipped from the slings and shot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A wire was received in town yesterday announcing that the dredge Ulysaes and punt had gone ashore at Evans' Head, point between the Clarence and Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the south-east gale which has been raging off the North Coast, the Government dredge Ulysses broke adrift from the tug Rhea and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The steamer Manapouri and the tug Gratitude came into collision off Terrigal on the New South Wales coast. The stern of the tug was cut…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The steamer Pericles, one of the largest vessels of the Aberdeen line, which left Sydney on March 18 for London, via ports, with over 300 passengers, struck a rock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JUST after going to press last week we received a telegraphic message that the s.s. Pericles, one of the largest vessels of the Aberdeen line,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. W. E. Raymond, officer-in-charge of the Sydney Observatory, was interviewed regarding a suggestion that the uncharted rock the Pericles struck may have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE North Coast Co.'s new steamer Minimbah, whilst entering the Manning River this morning struck the breakwater wall very heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE British-India steamer Satara, 5200 tons, bound from Sydney to Queensland, struck a reef north of Seal Rocks and went down bow first. The North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The West Australian Government steamer Penguin leaves Fremantle to-day to locate the uncharted rock on which the steamer Pericles is said…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Captain Barclay, master of the auxiliary three masted schooner Countess of Ranfurly, who was lost on March 31 off the coast of New Caledonia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following quickly on the loss of the Abendeen liner Pericles, off the West Australian coast, comes the news of another disaster of similar character…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Captain Hacking, the Acting-Super-intendent of Navigation, on Friday opened the inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Satara, which struck on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Macphail, the mate (Mr. Dobson), and the engineer (Mr. Shapland, of the wrecked schooner Malekula, arrived at Townsville on…
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