Wreck of a Barque
The barque Centurion, of the White Star line, whilst being towed yesterday morning to Newcastle for a load of coal, got on the rocks near the North Head…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
30 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
Explosion on a Steamer
There has been an explosion on the steamer America, supposed to have been caused by an infernal machine placed on the wharf by the labourers on strike…
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SIGNALS of distress were observed on the night of the 9th inst., by the men at the Southport Lifeboat house, Lancashire, apparently…
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The steamer Kiama had one wheel completely shattered the skylight stove in and a cabin filled with three feet of water in crossing the Moruya bar yesterday…
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DETAILS have been received from New Orleans of a "disaster to the steamboat J. M. White, the largest and fastest boat on tire Mississippi River, which was burned to the water's edge on the…
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All the passengers by the steamer Preussen, except Mrs. Fritz and children, have been released from quarantine. They will be detained until all danger of…
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The steamer Waitaki was wrecked on a voyage from Napier to Wellington. No lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Scone at the Wreck of the Valparaiso
A CORRESPONDENT at VIGO, writing to the Pall M at.t. Gazette on the 1st March, gives the following particulars of the loss of the Pacific…
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The Californian mail steamer has arrived at Auckland, and is expected to reach Sydney next Wednesday…
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Private telegrams announce the wreck of the schooner Amoy, which left Sydney, last August, for Hew Pomerania. The vessel was wrecked at the Caroline…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Social Wreckage in Melbourne. Starvation, Nakedness, and Death
IT is an old saying that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, hut if the statement were analysed it would no doubt…
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After many hours of suspense and anxiety, the full magnitude of the disaster to the Channel steamer Victoria has at length been…
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The Suez mail steamer Carthage arrived at Albany, and her mails are expected to reach Sydney next Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand, Thursday, Hulk Ashore
During a severe gale, the freezing hulk in Wellington Harbour went ashore and a boat going to her assistance capsized, four of the occupants being drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intercolonial. Melbourne, Monday. Barque Ashore
THE Austrian barque Gange went ashore about midnight on Saturday, on the outer reef, off Point Lonsdale, in boisterous weather. The crew stood in great peril…
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The steamer Collector was driven over the Tweed Bar last night, and has not since been heard of…
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The steamer, City of Melbourne, which left, on Saturday, for Melbourne, passed Wilson's Promontory, to-day, disabled, the engines having broken down…
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Bishop, the chemist, who was shot on board the mail steamer as she was leaving San Franciseo, is dead…
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THE Pall Mall Gazette says:--Another "fastest steamer in the world " has been launched on the Clyde. The other day the Fairfield Company put into the water the Queen Victoria, which did 22¼…
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The mail steamer Ballarat arrived at Albany, this morning. Her Sydney mail is expected here next Saturday…
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