The Duke of Westminster a Total Wreck
LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Duke of Westminster, which stranded on the Isle of Wight, has been abandoned as a total wreck…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884
151 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 8
A New Steamer for the Hunter Trade
Not the least interesting item in the news received by cable during the post day or two (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph") is the information that a new steamer, completed to the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The steamer Wendourse, 1200 tons, laden with coal, from Newcastle, when entering the channel in Corio Bay early on Friday morning, got…
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WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday.—The barque Fusilier, bound from Wellington to Adelaide to ashore on the New Zealand coast. The crew are safe…
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A telegram was posted yesterday afternoon a the Telegraph Office, received from Ballina at 4.20 p.m. that Mr. B. B. Nicolls regular trading steamer Lismore was wrecked to the north of the…
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The following are more detailed particulars of the grounding of the s.s. Lismore:—At 11 a.m. on Friday the steamer Lismore, whilst attempting to cross the bar—there being at the time a heavy…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Admiral, when approaching the jetty at Circular Quay, met with an accident through her reversing gear refusing to act. She crushed…
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PORT MACQUARIE, Tuesday.—The steamer Richmond, belonging to Messrs. Nipper and See, grounded yesterday whilst crossing the bar. After touching the ground she became…
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CASING, Tuesday.—The deck of the Lismore (s.) has started and the little mast has sprung; otherwise the vessel appears uninjured. At high water the sea breaks aboard…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The new steamer Adelaide, from Adelaide, broke the occentie rot of her engine when coming up Port Phillip Bay…
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The captain of the stramship Kent, which reached Port Adelaide (S.A.) an Saturday, reports that an alarming and very serious fire occurred on board that vessel shortly after…
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CASINO, Wednesday.—The steamer Richmond, it is expected, will shortly be floated…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The schooner Pride of Logan is a total wreck on Point Hood, North Queensland. All hands have been saved…
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The steam tug Comet went out on Wednesday, and again successfully fired a line from the Government motar across the stranded steamer Lismore. This done, she got two anchors laid,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The ketch Wanga Wanga, timber laden, which left Nambucca for Sydney on the 16th inst., has not since been heard of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Orient R.M.S. Garonne, with the English mails to December 21, has arrived at Adelaide. The mails per Garonne are expected to…
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LONDON, Monday.—The missing ship Simla has evidently gone to pieces. Some wreckage supposed to be hers has been washed ashore on the Sussex coast…
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The late boisterous and severe weather on the Queensland coast has unfortunately been attended with disaster to shipping. Telegrams were received by us yesterday mornin…
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Captain Anderson, late of the Kembla, proceeds to Scotland by the Orient to bring out the large, first paddle steamer, recently ordered for the Newcastle Steamship Company by the…
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The schooner Advance went ashore on Monday morning at Henry Head, near La Perouse, and has become a total wreck. The crew were all saved. There is a strong southerly wind…
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