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New England · Shipwrecks & the sea
18 stories in New England's papers
BEFORE there were any steamships I was a sailor on board the Dryad. She had been to China and thereabout, and we were bringing home a cargo of tea and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE disaster occurred off the coast of Massachusetts on the 18th January, involving the loss of a fine steamer and the lives of more than 100 of the persons who formed her crew and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON the afternoon of December 16 the Spanish mail steamer San Augustin, Captain Juan, from Manilla for Liverpool, with a cargo of sugar and tobacco, was burned in the Bay of Biscay. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Judge,' said a jolly grey-haired man, dressed in a modest uniform, in the Tombs Police Court lately. 'I'll be durned but this time I'm brought up vid all standin'.'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on board the passenger steamship Aberdeen outward bound for Sydney and Melbourne on March 1 opposite Gravesend. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday Night.—The s.s India, from Newcastle to Port Lyttelton, coal laden, foundered, during aheavy gale, 65 miles East of the Seal Rocks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The steamer Orient has arrived at Adelaide five days In advance of contract time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOBART, Monday.—Tho steamer Boric arrived on Saturday, from Plymouth. One man died, during the passage, from small-pox. No other fatal cases are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wreck of the Susan Gilmore was sold at Newcastle for £370, Mr. Hyde purchaser…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good progress has been made with the stranded steamer Collaroy. It is expected that she will be afloat in about a month…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Orient steamer Cuzco has arrived at Adelaide. The Sydney portion of her mails will possibly be delivered on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is 27 years ago to-day since the Dunbar was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French troop-ship Abeyron while on her voyage to the East with reinforcements for the French forces in Tonquin, was wrecked off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE three missing men who volunteered to seek assistance for their comrades, who were saved from the wreck of the ship Lashingham, have been found. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The yacht Mignonette, belonging to Mr. J. H. Want, was swamped by a heavy sea while on the voyage to Sydney. The crew, consisting of three men and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A COLLISION occurred in the harbour early this morning between the H. R. N. S. N. Co.s steamer Namoi and the steamer Agenoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE ship George Gordon, from Newcastle to Java, was wrecked on the Casternfield reef. The crew took to the boats. One boat was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTAIN Dudley, the person who stands charged with the murder of the boy Parker, has arrived in London, where he was met by his…
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