A New Steamer
Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s new steamer Burrumbeet arrived at Melbourne yesterday…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1885
232 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 12
The Steamer Sydney. ADEN
The Messageries' steamer Sydney, from Marseilles 1st instant, passed here to-day en route for Australian ports…
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The steamer Hunter, while on her passage from Ulladulla, broke her main shaft, and was towed to Sydney by the steamer Kameruka…
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The ketch Activity was sunk alongside of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's wharf at Townsvile last evening. She was lying at the wharf loaded for…
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Captain Emerson has been appointed commander of Huddart and Parkers a new steamer Burrumbeet…
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Some unusual excitement was caused in shipping circles yesterday morning, on account of the ferry steamer Iona coming to grief whilst on a trip to the dyke. It appears that the vessel left the…
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The Marine Board investigation into the wreck of the Cahors was resumed to-day, when Captain Bault, of the s.s. Rodondo, was examined on behalf of…
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The American ship John Dacosta, from Melbourne to Calcutta with a general cargo and 140 horses, is ashore at North Torres Straits. There is no hope of…
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Captain Alby, of the steamer Coome rang, expects to recover 200 tons more dry cargo from the steamer Cahors. He landed 100 tons yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. The Wreck of the Cahors
The Marine Board to-day suspended the certificate of Captain Walker for six months, and of the first mate for three months…
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At the Marine Board to-day, at the enquiry into the wreck of the s.s. Cahors, Mr. Rogers wished to cross-examine Captain Walker on behalf of the company,…
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A lifeboat at Caistor, on the Lincolnshire coast, has been wrecked, and eight of her occupants drowned…
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A VERY powerful war steamer has just been completed on the Tyne (says an English paper) for the Italian Government. It is to be hoped we may…
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The Gunga has arrived from Thursday Island. She reports the sale of the wreck of the Juan de Costa to a Thursday Island syndicate. Five members of…
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A wharf labourer had his skull fractured through an ingot of tin falling upon him whilst working on board the steamship Corinna…
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THE steamer Victoria returned on Thursday (says the Brisbane Courier) from her trip to New Guinea to land the islanders whom the late Royal Commission had decided were…
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About 1 o'clock yesterday morning a gun was fired from the Fortification Hill, denoting that a vessel was in distress, and immediately after was followed by another shot booming forth. A vessel…
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Information was received in town yesterday morning of the total loss of the schooner Kreimhilda whilst on her voyage from this port to Whangaroa (says the, Auckland Herald" of the 21st…
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The steamer Melbourne, which was built for the Melbourne Harbour Trust, met with an accident while on the way to Australia, having broken her propellor…
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The steamer Alexandria arrived at Cooktown from Normanton yesterday morning, having been aground for 30 hours on a sand spit about 80 miles north…
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