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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890

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novelist. [?] The Secret Chamber; Or, the Gipsy's Vengeance. Chapter Xxiil. the Shipwreck

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 1

We must now go back to the time of Vernor's [?]mbarkation on the Sally Ann, After the first fury of his…

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Novelist. The Secret Chamber; Or, the Gipsy's Vengeance. Chapter Xxiii. the Shipwreck

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 3

We must now go back to the time of Vernor's embarkation on the Sully Ann. After the first fury of his…

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A Shipwrecked Crew Among the Islands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 25

It was on a rest named the Susanna Coral Reef it appears, that the barque Tewkesbury L. first struck and went to pieces while on her voyage from Newcastle, N.S.W., to…

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Wreck of the Loch Moidart. Twenty-seven of the Crew Lost London, January 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 18

The Loch Moidart, bound from Iquique, a Peruvian port, to Hamburg, has been completely wrecked at Caland[?]oog, on the northern coast of Holland, and 27 of her crew are…

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Supposed Wreck of an Atlantic Steamer. London, January 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 18

Some wreckage of an iron steamer has been found, which leads to the belief that the vessel was lost during the recent severe gales in the Atlantic. It is feared that 70 lives have been…

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Disastrous Ship Wreck. Terrible Loss of Life

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 March 1890 · page 2

One of the most awfully sudden and calamitous shipwrecks ever occurring in these waters is reported from Northern Queensland. The British Indian Company's steamer Quetta…

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A Voyage in a Life-boat. London, March 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 March 1890 · page 18

The patent life-boat named The Storm King, in which Captain Jorgensen undertook a voyage from London to Australia, has accomplished part of her perilous trip, having…

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Appalling Disaster at Sea. the Steamer Quetta Lost in Torres Straits.the Vessel Sinks Within Three Minutes. One Hundred and Twenty-three Persons Drowned. Brisbane, Saturday Evening

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 March 1890 · page 26

News has just been received from Cooktown of a most appalling disaster that baa occurred to the R.M.S. Q [?]etta, one of the line of the British India Steam Navigation…

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By Elect Rio Telegraph. Wreck of a Steamer. Sydney. Monday, March 3

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 2

By the loss of the steamer Quetts, Which struck on a rook near Thursday Island, and sank in three minuter, 166 of the passengers and crew were drowned and only 116 saved…

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Murders on Board a Labor Schooner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 27

The labor schooner Hector returned to Brisbane on Monday after five months’ recruiting cruise in the islands. During the cruise, on the morning of Christmas Day, a return…

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The Wreck of the Quetta

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 26

A sea captain, who has had considerable experience in navigation on the Queensland costs, states that in 1877 the steamer Thales, with Chinamen on board from Hong Kong to…

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Wreck of a Steamer London, March 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 18

Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the s.s. Virent near Ferrol (?), and the loss of 15 of her hands…

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The Rescue Steamer Trugannini

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 25

Messrs. Burns, Philip, and Co. are in receipt of the following account of the rescue of the crew by their inter-island steamer Trugannini. On arrival at Mallicolo we were…

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Hurricanes and Wrecks. March Storms in the New Hebrides and Other Groups. Great Loss of Life by Bowning and by Savagery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 25

March weather in the Sooth Pacific hurricane region is to be dreaded. It is bat twelve months ago that the startling news was received of the hurricane at Samoa in the…

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Wreck of the C. Walker

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 25

By the Birk[?]gate, news is also to hand of the wreck of the schooner C. Walker, which was purchased recently from Mr. R. H. F.Kemp, a Sydney owner, by Mr. J. F. Lamont, of…

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Wreck of an Australian Bound Ship

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 25

The barque E[?]elie, 728 tons register, Captain Small, from the Bluff bound for Port Pirie, under charter, has been wrecked. She struck a squall in Foveaux Straits, was thrown…

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Swallows Invade a Steamer

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 2

A rather curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French steambeat Ahd-el-K[?]er during the passage from Marseilles to Algiers. Just as…

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Swallows Invade a Steamer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 May 1890 · page 2

A rather curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French stearnboat Abd-el-Kader during the passage from Marseilles to Algiers. Just as…

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Sa[?]ows Inrade a Steamer

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 May 1890 · page 2

A [?] curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French [?]mboat Abdel Kader during the passed from Marseilles to Algiers, Just is…

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A New Zealand Steamer. London, May 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1890 · page 19

The Taviuni, a steamer built for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, was launched yesterday…

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