Wreck of the Barque Asterope
The barque Asterope, 602 tons, from London bound to Lau[?]ceston, which went ashore on Friday last, on the [?] obe Reef, at the entrance to the Tamar River has been abandoned to…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1883
100 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
TELEGRAMS. Supposed Wreck
SYDNEY, Friday.—The brig Pellam, from Melbourne, reports sighting, off Mount Dromedary, a vessel of about, three or four hundred tons burden, bottom up. It is…
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Early on Sunday morning, the Lily, one of the ferry boats, plying between Lane Cove River and Darling Harbour. Sydney was discovered to be on fire. The Lily returned from…
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ON Thursday afternoon the trial trip of the new screw-steamer Sophy Ann, belonging to Messrs. William Jennings and Co., Sydney, took place between Newcastle and Hexham and back. By…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The wreck of the ship George Roper was sold by public auction to-day. The auction room was crowded. The bidding at first was brisk; it commence at…
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The schooner Helen Marquis, says the Hobart Mercury, sailed by Captain Whitton, with the owner, Mr. H. D. Marquis, on board, was wrecked on 7th inst., on the east side of the Don…
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A telegram from Melbourne to the Echo, dated Friday, says:—The ship George Roper still lies on the reef at the Heads. The weather was too rough to-day to approach her. The water has…
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[?]ON, July 15.—The French Government [?]as received official despatches from [?]scar, but no mention is made of the [?] insult to the captain and officers of…
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ABOUT five o'clock yesterday morning, an hour or so before daylight, two guns fired from the Signal Hill announced a vessel in danger, and instructed the lifeboat's crew to proceed out. With the greatest…
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The New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Loch Ken, from Auckland to London, has gone ashore in the Firth of Thames, at the entrance to Auckland. The weather at the time was thick,…
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BY the courtesy of Mr. Logan, Collector of Customs in thig city, we are favoured with the following telegram from the harbour authorities in Melbourne:—"Caution…
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AN action arising out of the theft of the screw steamer Ferret from the Highland Railway Company in 1880 was (says the London correspondent of the Argus) heard in London by Mr. Justice Stephen,…
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PORT SAID, July 24.—The Anglo-Indian, steamer, left here to-day, outwards…
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LONDON, August 2.—The Messageries Maritimes Peluse has been placed in quarantine at Marseilles, two of her passengers from Egypt having died on board from cholera…
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THE Williams River Steam Navigation Company, Limited, have had built to their order a smart-looking steamer, appropriately named the Williams, and intended…
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LONDON, August 6.—It is feared that the steamer Hankow, conveying 1500 Portuguese to Honolulu, has been wrecked, and all on board drowned…
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By advices received from Cooktown (says the E. News) it is feared that the Kale Kearney, brigantine, the property of Captain T. A. Lake, has been lost with all hands in a gale off the east coast…
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LONDON, August 15.—The steamer Ghazee, from London to Adelaide, came into collision with the steamer Welwyn off Cape St. Vincent. The latter sank, but…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Several vessels having reported passing through wreckage consisting of kerosene cases lately, it has now been ascertained that the. Norwegian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwreck and Loss of Life. Says George R. SIMMS, in the London Referee
"Are the regulations for the human traffic on ships mere idle forms of words or not? And if they are seriously intended, why are they outraged every day with impunity? The truth is that the making of…
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