The Wreck at Cape Otway
SYDNEY, Monday.—The vessel that was wrecked on Saturday morning at the outer end of Cape Otway is the New York barque "Iric the Red," 1600 tons. Cargo…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1880
167 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 9
Special Steamer to Sydney
IN another column Mr. W. Howard Smith announces the despatch to-night of the Cheviot (s.) with freight and Passengers, at reduced rates to Sydney…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The Orient steamer Sorata, 4014 tons, went ashore a mile from Cape jervis Lighthouse, at half-past 8 o'clock last night. It was…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Victoria returned to the Heads, arriving at 2 o'clock, and got foul of No. 2 buoy in the west channel, the moorings of which got…
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A TELEGRAM from Cape Jervis, at 5 p.m., states that the diver, on examining the bottom of the port side, reported seeing one very small hole on the starboard side. They are…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.âThe barque Eric the Red, from New York, with exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition, was wrecked on the outer end of Cape Otway reef at half-past 1…
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THE steamship Newburn, which arrived at San Francisco on July 23 (says the Alta California) Brought up a portion of the shipwrecked crew of the ship Mathilde, Capt. R. H. Jones,…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A telegram received from Cape Jervis last evening states that the Mary Miller brought additional lumpers and engines and some hand…
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THE schooner Venturs, which arrived from the Solomon Group this morning, brings intelligence of the total wreck of the trading schooner Arial, and the death of two of her…
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MR. E. C. CRACKNELL has received the following telegram from Cape Jervis, dated Wednesday, 10 p.m.:— "There appears to have been some hitch in…
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THE steamer Wentworth, belonging to the A.S.N. Company, which arrived with a large number of passengers from Sydney yesterday morning grounded on the bank…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The latest from the wreck of the Sorata states that the pumps are working splendidly, and the water much, reduced. A driver is patching up…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A telegram was received from Cape Jervis, last evening, stating that five pumps are at work to-day on the Sorata. The water has decreased…
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IN consequence of very heavy sea prevailing along the coast, and general weather reports betokening severe weather, no steamers left Newcastle last…
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A PASSENGER, writing to a friend in Christchurch, New Zealand, gives the following account of the narrow escape of the ship Wiamete, off Cape Horn:…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.âGreat alarm, is being caused by the fact that the ketch Prima Donna, which sailed from Port Macdonnell to Port Adelaide three weeks…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A ship's deckhouse, painted red and white, covered with canvas and having sliding panels, has been found at the Troubridge Shoal. A…
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LONDON, September 22.—The ship Carnaqueen, from Antwerp to Sydney, foundered at sea, having sprung a leak. The crew were saved…
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FROM the third yearly report of the National Shipwreck Relief Society of Now South Wales, for the year ending 30th June, 1880, some interesting particulars…
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THOSE who were indulging in the fond anticipation that this coast would escape a recurrence of those tempestuous gales which too often produce…
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