The Accident to the Steamer Cheviot. Melbourne
THE steamer Cheviot, which Adelaids, shaft while on her voyage to [?]rday was towed into the bay yes[?] morning. The accident, w[?]…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
Total Wreck of the Centurion. All Hands Saved
GREAT excitement was caused in Newcastle yesterday morning when Messrs. J. and A. Brown received a telegram from Sydney stating that the barque Centurion, whilst…
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ONE of the most extraordinary accidents to shipping that has been recorded for a long time past happened early yesterday morning, when the well known barque…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Earlscourt
THE violent gales which have been experienced all round the British and Irish coasts have resulted in the destruction of much shipping and…
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An explosion has occurred on board a steamer in America, supposed to have been caused by an infernal machine placed on the vessel by wharf labour…
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Theo New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Aorangi, from Wellington 13th January, arrived to-day. Her cargo of 15,000 carcases is in good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Schooner Camille. Excitement at Nobbys
THE schooner Camille, Captain Helgeson, arrived in harbour about 7.30 o'clock last night from Kaipara (N.Z.) and came to an anchorage in the north harbour. The…
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THE following telegram was posted up at the local telegraph office yesterday:—Arakoon; Feb. 15—Tug Ranger total wreck about four miles north of the S.W. rocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Select Poetry. The Warriors of the Sea. A Lifeboat Story
Up goes the Lytham signal ? St. Anne's has summoned hands ! Knee-deep in surf the Lifeboat's launched abreast of Southport sands !…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Lifeboat. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—At about 1 p.m. to-day the entrance to our harbour was very nearly blocked by innumerable small craft, some at anchor waiting an opportunity to come in, and…
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NEWS has been received at Adelaide of the wreck of the steamer Palmerston on the Secret Rock, about 20 miles north-east of Port Lincoln. The Palm[?]rston belonged to…
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THE Bishop William Taylor's Missionary Society of New York has just contracted with Mr. Richard Smith, shipbuilder, Preston and Lytham, for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Ship Ashore
The well-known clipper ship Westland (of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion line), from Port Chalmers (N.Z.) for London, went ashore in the English…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southport Lifeboat Disasters
At the Royal Hotel, Southport, on the 25th January, the German Consul, Mr. R. L. F. Cahr, distributed in certain sums the amount of £80 14s…
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Captain J. G. Knight, of the schooner Airlie, which arrived here yesterday from Hongkong, reports having seen two vessels ashore on the N. W. reef, the entrance to the west channel, Torres…
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A select committee has been appointed by the House of Commons to report on the lifeboat service and life-saving apparatus on the British coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Looting of a French Steamer in the Red Sea
A PASSENGER writes from the steamer City of Bombay, off Aden, January 20:—"As the City Line steamship City of Bombay, Captain Anderson,…
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ABOUT 9.30 last night, as the steamer Beeswing, Captain M'Intyre, belonging to the Melbourne Coal Company, was leaving the port of Newcastle, and when abreast of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Energy
THE captain and crew (nine all told) of the schooner Energy, a New Zealand owned vessel, which was wrecked in the vicinity of the Clarence River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Minnie
WRITING of the wreck of the brigantine Minnie, the Cooktown Courier of April 2 says:—"This vessel was built at Prince Edward's Island in 1873,…
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