Wreck of the Thomas Russell
Says the "Auckland Herald" of 16th inst.:—In our yesterday's issue we announced the loss of the s.s. Thomas Russell on Orets Point. We now learn that she went on the point named at 4 a.m…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1885
232 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12
Invention for Prevention of Collision and Shipwreck
Science has been invoked in in a very remarkable manner by an American inventor for the purpose of preserving ships from the fearful fatalities that are specially due to fogs. Mr. F. D…
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A telegram announcing the total wreck on the Burlings, off Lisbon, of the British India steamship El Dorado, which recently left the Royal Albert Dock with 600 tons of Government stores…
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Captain Stanford, of the steamer Buninyong which arrived here yesterday morning, reports that when leaving Sydney on Tuesday night his vessel ran into the ketch Vision, which was lying…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Thetis has returned from Norfolk Island. She reports that the wreck seen by H.M.S. Miranda on the Elizabeth…
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A valuable acquisition to the fleet of Government steamers has been launched from the ship-building yard of Mort's Dock and Engineering Company, Balmain (says the Sydney "Daily…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The missing Queensland Government steamer Lucinda arrived at M'Carvid, Batavia, on April 2nd…
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Says the Auckland "Herald" of the 28th ult.: From our Kaipara correspondent we have word of the wreck of another vessel at the Kaipara Heads. This time it is the barque Mathieu,…
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SYDNEY, Monday—The schooner Fanny went ashore at North Beach, Port Stephens. The crew were saved…
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A telegram was received by the Telegraphic Department from Sydney yesterday morning to the following effect:—"The steamer Glendower, bound from Newcastle for Calcutta, struck D reef…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—The steamer Glendower ashore at D. Reef, is reported all right so far, being sheltered from the sea. Her cargo is being jettisoned…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The barque Pladen, owned by a Hamburg firm bound from Levuka to Falmouth, is a total wreck at Wangaroa Island, one of the Chatham…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Triumph, wrecked at Auckland in 1883, has arrived in the harbour in ballast…
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From the "Suva Times" of the 11th instant the following particulars of the loss of the British barque Lorenzo are obtained:—"The second detachment of shipwrecked mariners from the Phœnix…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The steamer Goolwa, which was stranded in the Murray about a month ago, was raised on Saturday. The upper part of the deck…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—There is no foundation for the report that H.M.S. Undine has been wrecked, with the loss of all hands…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The steamer canton, which arrived at Cooktown, from Hongkong, on the 28th; brings the following news:—The French corvette D'Estaing…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The schooner Flirt has become a total wreck at the Navigator Islands. The crew was saved…
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By the steamer Rockton, which arrived on Saturday from Fiji and Noumea, news has come to hand of the loss of the schooner Flirt, a well known trader between this port and the Islands. The…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.— A collision took place near Auckland between the steamers Wellington and Macgregor. The latter sank, but the crew and…
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