The Wreck[?]
Some interring [?] bane Courier) [?] salvage operation at [?] The operations are no…
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41 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 3
A New Steamer for the Frozenmeat Trade. London, February 12
The New Zealand Shipping Company is having a steamer built at Dumbarton that will-carry 70,000 carcases…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A British Steamer Fired Upon. a British Steamer Fired Upon. London, March 2
The Chilian insurgents, who are in arms against President. Balmaceda and have established a blockade of most of the coastal ports, are reported to have fired upon a British…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Collision Off the Scilly Islands. the Steamer Roxburgh Castle Sunk. Twenty-two Lives Lost
A terrible disaster has occurred off the Scilly Islands. The steamer Roxburg Castle, 1844 tons, belonging to Messrs. Stephens and Mawson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, came into…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wreck of an American Corvette. London, March 16
Intelligence has been received to-day that the United States corvette Galena, 1900 tons, has been wrecked off the coast of Hampshire in the English Channel, where violent gales…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →More Wrecks and Loss of Life. London, March 14
Fresh disasters in the English Channel caused by the violence of the gales, are reported. Four vessels have been wrecked off Start Point, 53 persons being drowned, in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wrecks Off the Coast. a Ship and a Barque Lost. London, March 13
The weather in the British Channel has been extremely boisterous, and yesterday two serious disasters were reported. The iron barque Dryad, 169 tons, belonging…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →News of the World by Cable. Collision Near Gibraltar. the Steamer Utopia Sunk in Ten Minutes. a British Launch Destroyed. Several Seamen Drowned. London, March 18
Further particulars have been received respecting the terrible collision off Gibraltar, by which the steamer Utopia, 1754 tons, of the Anchor line, bound for New York with…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An Ocean Vulture. A Creature More Terrible Than The Famous Sea-Serpent. The Captain of a Steamer Relates an Experience That Rivals the Fancies of Fiction—A Boy's Narrow Escape From a Winged Monster
A strange story told by Captain Putt, of the British steamer Talisman, which came around Cape Horn from Liverpool, makes it appear possible that the stories of the sailors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck at the Caroline Islands. London, April 18
The R M S. Monowai, which left Auckland on March 28, has arrived at San Francisco. She reports that the Saint Catherine has been wrecked at the Caroline Islands, 90 lives being…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An Ocean Vulture. A Creature More Terrible Than The Famous Sea-Serpent. The Captain of a Steamer Relates an Experience That Rivals the Fancies of Fiction -- A Boy's Narrow Escape From a Winged Monster
A strange story fold by Captain Putt, of the British steamer Talisman, which came around Cape Horn from Liverpool, makes it appear possible that the stories of the sailors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of the Craigburn
The four masted barque Craigburn, which slipped her hawser while being towed out through the Heads on Friday last, went ashore late on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecks on the Victorian Coast
Great consternation was caused on Friday morning by the receipt of the news of a shipwreck near Geelong, and the imminent peril of a second vestal near the back…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foundering of a Steamer. London, May 12
Advices have been received that the steamer Lucky Lowe has foundered at Vancouver, Fifty-five persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Explosion at Newport. a Steamer Containing Petroleum Blown Up. London, May 11
A tremendous explosion occurred to-day on board the steamer Fancarville, at Newport, Wales. The steamer had on board a quantity of petroleum, which in some way or other was set…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Civil War in Chili. the Seizure of an Insurgent Steamer. Escape of the Vessel. London, May 8
The steamer Etata, belonging to the Obilian in[?]rgents, which was seized by the United States authorities for loading arms at the port of San Diego, in Southern California, succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wreck of the Craigburn. Melbourne
The ship Craigbrun went ashore at 11.30 on Friday night. Fourteen of the crew left the ship about 8 p.m. and stood out to sea, and later 15 more of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Capture of the Steamer Itata. London, June 4
The steamer Itata, belonging to the Chilian insurgents, which escaped from San Diego alter seizure by a United States official, and has since been hotly punned by American…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wrecks on the Victorian Coast. Gales and Floors Inland. Melbourne
Another wreck is reported from Sorrento, with loss of life. The schooner Nowra, Captain Lancaster, left Penguin on the 2nd inst. for Melbourne, with a cargo of potatoes. She…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Great Floods and Shipwrecks. the District Round Albury Flooded-miles of Country Under Water.the Railway Washed Away.out Off From Sydney for Two Days. Bridges Carried Away. Narrow Escape From Drowning
During the week one of the biggest floods ever seen in Riverina by white men has taken place, and immense damage to property has resulted, while frequently men have…
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