Disastrous Wreck Near Port Phillip Heads. Loss of the Steamer Alert. Fourteen Lives Lost
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 25
The wreck of the steamer Alert on a voyage from Bairnsdale to Melbourne, which occurred on Thursday afternoon, 28th ult., off the Back Beach, at Sorrento, adds…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Wreck of the Alert. the Cook’s Narrative
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4
Robert Pointing improved so much in health on Friday night that he was able on Saturday morning to give a more coherent account of the [?] incidents connected with the catastrophe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Brigantine. Hardships of the Crew
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1894 · page 27
Queensland telegrams announce the total loss of the brigantine Borough Belle, 210 tons, Captain Williams master, on the Bellona Reef on January 30 last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Duck's Shipwreck. a Story for Children
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 2
Willie was very sober; he was thinking. It isn't a very easy matter to think when one is only five years old, and Willie found it such hard work that it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swallows Invade a Steamer
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 June 1894 · page 4
A rather curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French steamboat Abd-el-Kader during the passage from Marseilles to Algiers. Just as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Barque
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 June 1894 · page 29
The barque Alexander Newton, which left Port Stephens, New South Wales, on May 31 with a cargo of piles for Napier, has been totally wrecked on Bare Island, on the east…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Attack on a Schooner
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 28
Brief particulars have reached Sydney of an attack upon the schooner Senta, a labor vessel under the Garman [?] employed off the coast of New Ireland. While the Senta was lying…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Latest Telegrams. Anarchy in France. Plot to Wreck the Public Buildings at Paris. the Arsenal at Toulon. London
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Monday 16 July 1894 · page 1
The authorities at Scotland-yard have warned the French Government that an anarchist plot has been proposed to blow up by dynamite simultaneously the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Mission Shipwrecked
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 28
News reached Sydney on Friday from the Friendly Islands of the loss of the Beatrice, a vessel belonging to the Free Church of Tonga. The vessel was making her way from Haabal…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Wrecks
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 3
[?] There appear to be an average of about 600 [?] amongst British vessels every year. There [?] worse wrecks on land than on sea. [? who, without [?] or judgment,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Steamer Empress of China. London, August, 7
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 August 1894 · page 18
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer Empress of China, 3,003 tons, has gone aground on the bar at the mouth of the Yang-tse-Kiang, Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Serious Disaster in the Channel an Unknown Steamer Sunk.the Lismore Castle Greatly Damaged. London, August 7
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 August 1894 · page 18
A serious disaster has occurred in the English Channel, near the island of Ushant, off the north-west corner of France. The steamer Lismore Castle, 2606 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Literature. How It Feels to Be Shipwrecked
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 August 1894 · page 9
The squall that wrecked the C—began on a Friday—the 13th of the month The C—was a small steamship of 700 and odd tons, which had left Tunis on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Steamer Rodney Rubnt. Wiloannia
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 24
The steamer Rodney, conveying free laborers from Wentworth to Talarno, was boarded by disguised men on Saturday night near Pola station, 60 miles from here, and burnt One of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →General European Telegrams. a New P. AND O. Steamer. London, August 26
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 19
The P. and O. Company's new steamer Caledonia has made a successful trial trip, a speed of 19 knots an hour being attained. The Caledonia is a vessel of 7500 tons, was…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wreck of the Steamer Eddystone
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 29
A telegram from Perth, dated Monday, rana as follows :—"The steamer Eddystone, 1,313 tons, belonging to Messrs M'Illwraith, M'E[?]cfcarn, and Co., which left Freemantle…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Wreck of a Chinese Transport. London, September 10
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 27
A transport conveying Chinese troops to Cores has been wrecked. There were 1400 men on board, who narrowly escaped losing their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Dynamite Outrage at Turin. a Cafe Wrecked. London, September 7
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 27
A dynamite outrage was committed at Turin in Northern Italy to-day. A bomb was exploded in a cafe, completely wrecking the premises, but fortunately injuring nobody. The outrage is…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →New Steamer
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1894 · page 24
On the 29th August the new steamer “ Prinz Regent Ln[?]tpold,” of the Nordde[?]cher Lloyd, left Bremen for Australia on her maiden trip. The “Prinz Regent Luitpold” compl ted her…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Steamer Otarama. Collision in the Channel. London, October 1
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1894 · page 18
The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer 0.arama, which sailed from London a few days ago, returned to Gravesend yesterday considerably damaged, hating come into collision…
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