Wreck of a Steamer. Only One Life Saved. Melbourne
THE steamer Alert, trading between the Gippsland Lakes and Melbourne, foundered off Jubilee Point, near Sorrento, during a heavy gale last night. All hands and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1894
62 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 4
Fire on a Steamer
A fire took place on board the steamer Nairnshire yesterday morning. The ship was uninjured, but about 200 carcases of frozen mutton were destroyed. The remain…
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Large quantities of wreckage have been washed ashore at Margate, Kent, supposed to have come from vessels wrecked in the British Chennel where extensive fogs prevailed…
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The ship Loch Shiel, bound from Glasgow to Adelaide, has been wrecked off the coast of Pembroke, South Wales. The crew were rescued…
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A TELEGEAM from Norman ton to-night states that Arthur Rodgers, who was sent out four days ago with a black-tracker to search for the survivors of the Kanahooka,…
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The barque Gazelle has been totally wrecked on the New Zealand coast. Nine lives were lost and only one of the crew was saved. The vessel was loaded with guano…
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AN incident of a most sensational nature occurred on the voyage of the Lund Blue Anchor steamship Yarrawonga, which is due in…
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THE lugger Marie, in charge of William Dammkohler, returned to Thursday Island on Thursday morning from Batavia River after a most perilous trip, the vessel most…
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The mail steamer Massilia arrived at Albany yesterday. One of her crew, is suffering from small-pox. She sailed again for Adelaide with the small-pox patient…
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FURTHER details of the wreck of the schooner Borough Bells show that she was bound from Noumea to the Solomon Islands, in ballast,…
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It is feared the schooner Grecian Bend, from Newcastle, founded with all hands during Sunday's storm at Napier…
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CONSIDERABLE excitement was occasioned in Sydney on Monday by the receipt of news that a collision had occurred off the coast between Messrs. W. Howard Smith…
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WHEN the steamer Aldinga went from Sydney to Solomon Islands, the other day, she stopped off a wreck lying on the Bellona shoal…
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A telegram received here to-day announces the wreck of the London missionary schooner Mary, near New Guinea. All hands were saved…
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A RATHER curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French steamboat Abd[?]el-Kader during the passage from Marseilles to…
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The ship Titania, which recently came into collision with the steamer Koonoowara, was sold to-day for £580…
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A REPORT from New York, May 29th says:"When the steamer New York was cutting her away through a thick bank of fog on Friday night, a few miles off Sandy…
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News has been received in Sydney that the four masted schooner Lady Bowen has become a total wreck on the Harrier reefs, being on a voyage from Dungeness, North…
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Another outrage is reported from the Wentworth River. The steamer Rodney was proceeding to Tolarno on Saturday night, having on board a number of free laborers,…
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The ateamer Islam, which was seized at Glasgow on August 20 by order of the Foreign Office, has teen released. The seizure was made on account of…
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