Yvonne: a Steamer Romance
IT is Sunday--and the steamer is out on the open sea. A long, dark, handsome steamer it is and it oats a white path for itself through the sapphire waters, and leaves a…
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Yvonne: a Steamer Romance. Iii
A STORM on the open sea, and the steamer is out in it. The great waves are flying from side to side, roaring, seething, running, rushing…
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The Musgrave s.s., 163 tons, on her outward voyage from Liverpool to Brisbane, has been totally wrecked at Negombo, a port on the west coast of Ceylon, a Jew miles north of…
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A long, low, red-brick manor-house; a sweeping, undulating park before it ; a forest of rustling pine-trees stretching away out behind it; and a strong hot summer's sun,…
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A STORM on the open sea, and the steamer is out in it. The great waves are flying from side to side, roaring, seething, running, rushing;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Loss of a Steamer and All Hands
A Daily News telegram from Plymouth, on 7th December, states:—Information has been received from Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall, of the loss of a large steamship with…
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A painful tale of shipwreck is reported, according to the New York Tribune, in connection with the loss of the brig A.S.H., off Sable Island. The vessel loft Miquelon…
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News has been received here by the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company’s R.M.S. Surat, trading between India and China, that she was stopped and searched at sea by a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wreck of the Bothwell Castle. Hong Kong, March 16
The Bothwell Castle, bq., 592 tons, of Newcastle, which left that port for Petropaulovski on November 17, ran on a reef at Ngarik Islands and became a total wreck. The captain…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Troubles of a South Sea Schooner
The other morning a strange occurrence took place on board the Agnes Edgell, a German trading schooner, which was being moored out into the stream preparatory to leaving Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Wreck of the Bittern. Adventures of the Crew
The A.S.N. Co.’s steamship Victoria, which arrived at Sydney on the night of Thursday, 14th inst,, brought the captain and crew of the three-masted schooner Bittern, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wreck of the A.s.n. Co.’s Steamer Cahors. the Passengers All Saved
The A.S.N. Co.’s fine new steamship Cahors, which left Sydney on Tuesday evening, 9th inst., for Brisbane, with a full list of passengers and a general cargo, under the command of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Total Wreck of a Barque. Four Lives Lost. Adelaide
On the 16th inst the barque Mars, from Melbourne to Port Gerinein, where she was to load wheat for the Cape, &c., went ashore in West Bay, on the western coast of Kangaroo…
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Father particulars (says the Adelaide correspondent of the "Evening News") have retched hers of the wreck of the barque Mars, near West Bay, on the western coast of Kangaroo Island. It appears that the vessel, which belongs to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Cahors.’ [By Electric Telegraph.] Brisbane
A meeting of the Cahors passengers was held yesterday morning. Mr. Perkins addressed the meeting, and expressed his astonishment the evidence given by Captain Walker…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Foundering of a Steamer—only One Survivor
A thrilling narrative of the foundering of the steamer Spoke Hall, is given in a Ceylon paper by the sole survivor, Mr Henry Koyzer, the second mate of the vessel. The Spoke Hall foundered in the same gale in which the Orient steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Cahors. the Captain and the Mate Held Culpable
The Marine Board at Sydney gave its decision on Monday respecting the wreck of the A.S.N. Company’s s.s. Cahors, which took place on the 10th June last. The board…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A Ship Ashore in Torres Straits. [By Electric Telegraph.] Thursday Island
The American ship John Dacosta, bound from Melbourne to Calcutta with 150 horses, got ashore on the North Torres Reef at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of the 13th inst. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wreck of a Lifeboat. London, July 22
A sad fatality has occurred at Caistor, near Yarmouth, on the east coast of England. The lifeboat belonging to the town was wrecked, and eight lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Supposed Wreck of a German Gunboat. Loss of 300 Lives
Groat anxiety exists among the German residents in these colonies respecting the fate of the Gorman gunboat Augusta, which left the port of Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, in the beginning of…
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