Wreck of the Steamer New England
One of the most appalling disasters that has ever occurred in connection with the Clarence River trade took place on Wednesday evening. The steamer New England…
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13 stories in Murray's papers
The Wreck of the New England
The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the steamer New England was concluded before the Marine Board on Friday. The board were of opinion that…
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Grafton, Monday—The following statement of the pilot's crew re their conduct on the occasion of the wreck has been published by them, after hearing of the use that has…
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JANUARY, 13. 188[?]--Twenty-nine to-day, with two painful facts staring me blankly in the face. I am reduced almost literally to my last cent, and have no prospect of increasing this sum. For the…
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Shortly before noon on Saturday Captain James Rogers, of the sailing vessel Tuggerah, whilst on his way from Tarragul to Sydney, sighted a steamer about two miles north of…
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It was anticipated that the Austral would have been taken into the Filzroy dock at Biloela on Monday, but owing to the spring tide not being high enough, the work could…
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In the Orkney Sheriff's Court, five farmers living in the parish of Deerness were charged with stealing ship's material, wreck clothing &c., from the wrecked Norwegian schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Women of Mumlbes Head! a True Story of a Lifeboat. Poem for Recitation
BRING, novelists, your note-books! bring, dramatists, your pen! And I'll toll you a simple story of what women de for men. It's only a tale of a life-boat, of the dying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. Washed Ashore. Lines suggested by some foreign letters picked up on the cast coast of Scotland, after a storm
TO-NIGHT there is a storm at sea; I hear the breakers roar; There comes across the grassy lead The thunder of the shore,…
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A steamer running between Dublin and Holyhead capsized about midway between the English and Irish coasts. The whole crew and 60 passengers were drowned…
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The Age states :—Captain It. Lindsay, of the barque Ceres, of this port, and which was wrecked on the Bamptou Shoal off the Queensland coast, has written a letter to Mr. Service…
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A telegram was received from Hobart last Friday stating that the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company’s steamship Tasman had been wrecked off the south-eastern coast of…
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A Brisbane telegram says :—“Among the passenger by the Tannadice is Mr. R[?]illy, deputy commissioner for the Pacific, Mr. Romilly coules last from New G[?]nes, having…
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