Collision and Wreck. Exciting Scene at Sydney Heads
A collision occurred between Sydney Heads in the noonday sunlight on Saturday, the colliding boats being two well-known tug…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
38 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
Fire on a Steamer
The steamship Cintra, from Brisbane, via Ports, to Western Australia, put into Portland on fire, which was subdued after considerable damage was done. 560 passengers were on…
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The steamer Ealing has been lost off the coast of Nova Scotia. The crew drifted about for fourteen days in the boats, and fifteen died of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Ashore. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
THE steamer Glanworth, bound from Rockhampton to Gladstone, went ashore near the latter place at midnight on Saturday. The disaster happened in fine weather…
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The steamer Glanworth, bound from Rockhampton to Gladstone, went ashore near the latter place at midnight on Saturday. The disaster happened in fine weather with a…
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The steamer Glanworth that went ashore on the Queensland coast is reported to be breaking up. The steamer Aldinga which went ashore near…
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The Clarence River steamer Wollumbin, went ashore at Norah Head, near Newcastle, this morning. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hurr[?]ane at Tonga. Two Hundred Houses Blown Down. Three Vessels Wrecked. Auckland
News from Tonga states that a severe hurricane visited Hapai Group on 3rd January. In Lifuka and the neighbourhood 200 houses were blown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. 9.35 a.m. The Queensland Floods. Terrible Disaster. Thirty Lives Lost Through Wreck
The ferry steamer Pearl has been sank at Brisbane. Eighty persons were on board, and about half were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of a Wreck: [By Telegraph.] Brisbane, Monday Night
THE wreck of the steamer Glenworth has been sold for £75…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glanworth Wreck
The wreck of the steamer Glanworth has been sold for £75…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Traffic from W. Australia
The Buninyong, one of the steamers of Messrs Howard Smith's line, came into port (says the "Sydney M. Herald ") with a number of passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Science. the Coming Life-boat
An aluminium life-boat, built in Baltimore for Arctic exploration, mot every test for stability to which it was subjected last week with such remarkable success that the…
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The steamer Burrumbeet, sailing from Sydney to Melbourne, when entering Port Phillip ran down and sunk the yacht Caolque, three lives…
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FULL particulars have just been received at Liverpool of the loss of the London steamer Ealing on the Canadian Coast. A Canso (Canadian) correspondent reports the landing at that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vessels Wrecked
A southerly gale raised a tremendous sea at Newcastle yesterday, and the steamer Byron foundered near there, the heavy seas having found their way on board and extinguished the fires…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Night's Cables. [Through Our Special Agents.] the Wreck of the Drummond Castle. [By Cable.] London
THE only passenger saved from the wreck of the Drummond Castle was Marquardt, violinist, who recently visited Sydney. He, with three others, secured a rail, sitting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Brammond Castle. LONDON, June 18
FURTHER particulars of the loss of the D[?]mmond Castle Show that the disaster was not the result of a collision, as first stated, but the steamer struck on a rock off the Island of Molone (one of a gronp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Drummon D. Castle Wreck
The only passenger saved from the wreck, of the Drummond Castle, was M. Marquardr[?] the violinist, who recently visited Sydney. He, with three others, secured a rail, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck Located
The wreck of the steamer Drummond Castle, which sank off the French coast after striking a sunken reef, has been discovered…
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