Latest Cables America and Spain. Manzanillo Attacked. America Victorious After Severe Fighting. Heavy Losses. Port Cabanas Bombarded. Two Batteries Wrecked. South Americans Helping Spain. Departure of the Flying Squadron. Relieved to Meet Spanish Fleet. British Seizure. Ten Tons of Cartridges for Cuba. Safe Arrival of Mail Steamer Paris. London
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 3 May 1898 · page 2
Cuban insurgents, acting in conjunction with American troops, have attacked Manzanillo. After severe fighting the insurgents were victorious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Safe Arrival of Mail Steamer
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 3
The American mail steamer, Paris, arrived safely at New York from Southampton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manilla Surrenders. Rioting at Madrid. Firing at a British Steamer. Sydney, Thursday afternoon
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 3
The surrender of Manilla is confirmed. The Americans and the insurgents are forming a provisional Government in the Phillipines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Batteries Wrecked
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 3
The American flag-ship, New York, bombarded Port Cubanas, near Havana, and wrecked two batteries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Steamer Maitland
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 2
The steamer Maitland has been wrecked off B[?]rranjoey, and it is feared all hands are lost. Other shipping disasters are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Well Known Steamer Wrecked. Only Three of the Crew Saved
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2
The old and well-known steamer Merksworth has been wrecked near Newcastle only three of the crew being saved. Nine of those lost died from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Shipping Disaster. Two Steamers Wrecked
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 2
On Saturday last information reached Sydney to the effect that the steamer Maitland had gone ashore on the rugged coast above Broken Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Shipwrecks. Heavy Loss of Life. Sydney
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 36
The steamer Maitland, from Sydney to Newcastle, is reported to be ashore near Barranjoey, with heavy seas breaking over her, and every prospect of a complete…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Latest Cables America and Spain. San Juan Bombarded. by the Americans Completely Wrecked. Surrender of the City. London
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 2
Captain Sampson's squadron has bombarded San Juan, and has completely wrecked the fort and destroyed two Spanish ships. The city…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Maitland
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 28
A writer in the Telegraph says:—The exhibition of distinguished gallantry is by no means so common that it should be passed over without recognition. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Collision at Sea. a British Steamer Sunk. London, May 30
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1898 · page 26
A disastrous collision has occurred off Fire Island, near New York, between the steamer Foscolia, 1536 tons, owned by Messrs. Watts, Watts, and Co., of London,…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A Steamer Sunk. Disaster in the Gulf of Bengal. London, May 27
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1898 · page 26
News has been received from Calcutta of a disastrous collision which has occurred in the Gulf of Bengal, between two steamers belonging to the British-India Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Wreck of the Fitzroy
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1898 · page 28
An action arising out of the wreck of the Fitzroy, which occurred on Stockton Beach, near Newcastle, on the morning of December 11 last year, was heard before…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Wreck of a Steamer. Hobart
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 2
The steamer Grafton was wrecked on Sunday night on the Macquarie bar. The passengers, crow, and mails were all saved, but the vessel had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Steamer Grafton. Queenstown
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 15
The steamer Grafton, of the Union Company's line, from Melbourne to Straban, was wrecked on the Macquarie bar at 10 o'clock last night. The passengers and crew and the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Belfast Riots. Shops Looted and Houses Wrecked. London, June 9
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 27
The riots at Belfast arising out of a collision between the Orangemen and the Nationalists, who were celebrating the centenary of the Irish rebellion of 1798,…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Latest Particulars. a Spanish Cruiser Run Ashore. London
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 2
The Spanish auxiliary cruiser Antonio Lopez was run ashore whilst being chased by American cruisers near San Juan. Two Spanish gunboats came to its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Lonely Mariner. Bound the World in a Ketch. London, June 29
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 18
Captain Slocum, in his ketch the Spray, has completed his voyage round the world, having arrived safely at Rhode Island, a short distance south of Boston. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A Spanish Cruiser Ashore. Santiago to be Captured Within Forty-Eight Hours. Admiral Camara's Squadron in the Suez Canal
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 2
The Spanish cruiser Antonio Lopez ran ashore whilst being chased by American cruisers, near San Juan. Two Spanish gunboats came to her assistance, and compelled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Shipwreck. Sydney
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 2
A telegram received by the Merchant's Exchange to-day states that the Galatea, 1694 tons, Captain Card, seven days out from Hamburg to Sydney, was stranded in the…
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