Shipwrecked on a Cannibal Island
A cake of soap is said to have saved tho lives of five men and n boy off the coast of New Guinea. The story, as told in the smoking-room…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907
222 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 12
The Berlin Wreck. Terrible Story of Appalling Disaster Only Is Saved Out of 148. Thrilling Rescue Scnes Dutch Captain’s Dauntless Heroism
Among the many shipping disasters of recent limes the wreck of the Great' Eastern Railway Company’s steamer Berlin bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of a Yacht Herr Tietyen's "Hamburg." London
Herr Tietyen's schooner "Hamburg." 331 tons (formerly the English yacht "Rainbow") has been totally wrecked while racing between Heligoland and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Bicycle Saves a Shipwrecked Crew
That a bicycle should be of any use to the crew of a drifting and dismasted vessel might seem improbable enough. yet it was to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Position of the Steamer Nithsdale
Little hope is entertained of saving the steamer Nithdale, which went ashore at the mouth of the River Indus, while on a voyage from Bunbury, Western Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Black Sea Pirates. a Steamer Looted. Thieves Get Away with 50,000 Roubles. London
A sensational capture and robbery of a steamer has taken place in the Black Sea. Eighteen armed robbers succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Tragic Death of a Diver Diving Gear Entangled in Wreckage. a Terrible Experience. London
The death of a Government diver named Walter Trapnell, under tragic circumstances is reported from Torquay, in the south-west of England. Trapnell had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Sunk by Ice
While crossing the Neva late recently, the Archangelsk, an old river steamer, collided with some floating ice, turned over, and quickly sank. There were nearly 100…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →A Steamer Stranded
News was received to-day that the steamer Fido, 1443 tons, commanded by Captain Larson, was stranded last night on a reef outside Cook Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Woolahra Finding of the Marine Court. Wellington
The wreck of the barque Woolabra, on the New Zealand coast, while bound from Wellington to Newcastle, has been enquired into by the Marine Court. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Scow Wrecked
The slow "Surprise" has became a total wreck at Ohau, near Auckland. The captain, the mate, and two members of the crew are believed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mails in the Fido Wreck
The mails which went down in the wreck of the steamer Fide have been recovered, and have been sent on to Sydney via Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Toll of the Sea. Terrible Wrecks From Which Few Were Saved
Byron rightly says that “Man’s dominion stops at tho shore,” for, despite tho inventions and improvements of a hundred years, the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jack Ashore
Sailors ashore are reputed, the world over, to have the knack of getting themselves into all the mischief going. Two youthful sailormen, named Slamer and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mail Steamer on Fire. the Damage Small
By the fire on the Ville de La Ci[?]tat, belonging to the Messageries Maritimes, which has just arrived from Noumea, but little damage has been done. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Weather in the West Cyclones and Hurricanes Coming "Orizaba" Wreck Disappears P. and O. Steamer in Peril. Perth
Tremendous weather prevailing here and in the Indian Ocean Cyclonic storms are raging all along the coast and in the Bight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. South Afbica. the Conquering Chows. Wreck the Quarters of Their Police London
The Transvaal Legislative Assembly has read a second time a bill for providing for the completion of all the Chinese contracts Four hundred discontented Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipwreck on the Tasmanian Coast. the "Kawatiri" a Total Wreck. Six Lives Lost. Sydney
The Union Steamship Company's steamer Kawatiri, a well-known Melbourne trader, running to- Strahan, Zeehan, Regatta. Queenstown, etc;, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipping Disaster. Steamer Kawatiri Wrecked
The Union Steamship Company's steamer-Kawntiri, from Hobart, was totally wrecked at Macquarie Heads on Tuesday night, with the loss of six lives…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Steamer Arawatta. Anxiety for Her Safety
Some anxiety was to-day experienced in Sydney concerning the non-arrival at Brisbane of the A.U.S.N. Co's steamer Arawatta, which left Sydney…
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