A Steamer Seized by Pirates. Terrible Slaughter
NEWS has been received that the Duglas company's coasting steamer Hamoi was seized by pirates on the 5th December, 35 miles from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891
9 stories in New England's papers
A Mysterious Wreck
The wreck of a large vessel has just been discovered off Selsea Hill on the Soasex coast a locality crowded with dangerous reefs and shoals. Nothing has been…
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MR. and Mrs. W. James, who are making a pleasure tour in the West Indies on board their yacht the Lancashire Witch, rescued six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discovery of an Ancient Wreck
THE Torres Strait Pilot of March "7th. contains the following interesting account concerning the discovery of an ancient Spanish wreck on the Barrier reef. Captain Sam Roe, who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Shipwreck. Sydney
THE barque, Ellen, bound from Newcastle to Noumea foundered at sea on the 12th inst., only one of the crew escaping. It appears that during a terrific gale the…
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A VERY interesting circumstance in connection with the loss of the barque Ellen has just come to light, in the information that one of the crew, whom, up to the present, it had been thought was…
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PROBABLY the most remarkable vessel that has ever crossed the Atlantic has just arrived in the Waterloo Dock, Liverpool. This is the screw steamer, Charles W. Wetmore. She is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Gambier. Painful case of Mistaken Identity Adelaide
A Strange case of mistaken identity has occurred in connection with one of the victims of the Gambier disaster. The supposed body of Mrs. Trewenack was met on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Fiji
THE following is an exact list of the men drowned through the Fiji wreck:--Bridgman, first mate; Laidman, third mate; Petersen, Sanderberg, Sattean, Fredericksen, and Carkland,…
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