General Cables. London, Sunday. Chinese Pirates Attack a British Steamer
The British Consul at Canton has demanded from the Viceroy of the Province compensation for an attack on a British steamer by Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
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Wreck of the Speke. Cowes
The ship Speke, which was wrecked yesterday afternoon, went ashore on the reel on the east side of Miller's Bay, four miles from the Nobbys, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Pirates. Attack on British Steamer. London, February 23
An attack has been made by Chinese Pirates upon a British steamer on a voyage between Samshui, near Canton, and Ching Yuen. The pirates boarded the vessel and…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Elingamite Wreck. Search tor the Gold. The Diver Tells His Story
Full details of the last search for the Elingamite treasure came to hand last week, from New Zealand, by the Union Company's steamer Manuka…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robbery on a Steamer
A mysterious robbery is reported to have occurred on board the steamer Induna, which has been trading in the Islands. The amount missing is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cruiser Ashore
The British first-class cruiser Donegal, 14 guns, 9800 tons, 23 knots, has gone ashore near Suez, and tugs owned by the canal company are assisting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident to a Steamer. a Cylinder Destroyed
The New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Wakanui, which is on her voyage to London, has met with an accident causing the destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of a Steamer
It is feared that the steamer Thortis, which has gone on the rocks at Port Stephens, must become a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nothing but a Wreck. a Prompt Salvage. The Case of Mrs. E. COLE
A narrative well worth reading is one which was told by Mrs. Elizabeth Colo, of No. 78 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill in the company of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fortune From a Wreck
It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Alkman, M. L. C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Derelict Steamer. to Be Blown Up. London, April 6
The steamer Dunmore, 3653 tons, belonging to Macbeth and Co. Ltd, Cardiff, which two months ago was abandoned in the Atlantic, is a source of danger to…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Drowned in a Gave. Wreck of the Valencia. Women and Children
According to the London "Daily Mail" of 26th January, a raft with, nineteen sailors from the wreck of the steamer Valencia on the coast near Cape Beale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Whole District Wrecked
The whole of the business district between Market and Howard-streets, and from the Bay of San Francisco as far west as the City Hall, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Foundered Training-ship
Details of the disaster which happed to the Belgian mercantile trainingship "Comte Desmet de Nacyer" arc. beginning to come to hand despite the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Express Wrecked
The express from Paris to London was wrecked very soon after leaving the former city to-day. The driver and guard were killed and several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fifty Years Under the Sea. Souvenir of the Sirius. First Atlantic Steamer
The king has been graciously pleased to accept a souvenir of the s.s. Sirius, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. The souvenir is a circle of metal about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Theatre Wrecked. Hypnotic Failure. Bolts As Weapons
Ahrensmeyer, the "cowboy hypnotist," met with an audience that he was unable to hypnotise in Be[?]ant on Friday night, 2nd February, and a riot took…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Steamer's Fate. Crew Frozen to Death. London. May 7
A gruesome discovery has been made concerning the fate of a German steamer, the Soerabaja, of 2,441 tons, owned in Hamburg, which was engaged during the Russo-Japanese war in the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →New Steamer's Fate
A disastrous shipwreck is reported from Cape Colony. The steel screw steamer Oakburn, 3865 tons, owned by the "Burn" Line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fortune From a Wreck
It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of…
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