Queensland. Cooktown, Tuesday. Loss of the Steamer Oder. Many Lives Lost
The captain of the R.M.S. Roma reports the founding of the German-China Lloyd's steamer Oder in the Red Sea, many lives being lost…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 6
Wreck of the Barque Glaslyn
AMONG the passengers by the steamer Port Victor, from Singapore on Tuesday, were six of the crew of the barque Glaslyn, of Melbourne, which was wrecked in the China Sea…
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The Government have now under consideration the offer made by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to establish three steamer services,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of the Schooner Ann and Mary. Captain Campbell and One of the Crew Drowned
GREAT excitement was caused in shipping circles here yesterday afternoon, when it became known that Mr. Robert Muirhead's fine little schooner Ann mid Mary had been…
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The official inquiry by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the R.M.S. Tasmania off Corsica has commenced. The evidence revealed the fact that…
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The Melbourne correspondent of the S.M. Herald wires as follows:—A telegram from Bruthen states that the schooner Ann and Mary, bound from the Mersey River, Tasmania, to Queensland, foundered…
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FULL particulars are to hand about the wreck of the Ann and Mary, at Ninety-Mile Beach. The vessel left the Mersey, Tasmania, on June 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Esperanza. a Tale of the Three Colonies. Chppter Iii. the Wreck of the Waratah
Seventy-six days out from London, the White Star liner Waratah was slowly sailing on her voyage to Sydney. It was a fair moonlight…
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TO-DAY brings recollections of one, of the most terrible and lamentable maritime disasters that has ever taken place in these colonies, and the event will over remain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Cawarra. to the Editor
SIR,—In your account of the wreck of the Cawarra in to-day's issue, you mention that "Mr. Jesse Hannell (who, by the way, is at present in…
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The inquiry into the loss of the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania, wrecked some time ago off the coast of Corsica, has collapsed, owing to the…
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SIR,—In yesterday's Evening Call I observed a number of verses in praise Captain Chatfield, in connection with the wreck of the Helen Lancaster…
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An unfortunate disaster occurred near the public wharf at Irvington on Saturday last (says the Richmond River Express). The C. and R.R.S.N. Company's river steamer Irvington had just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Gallant Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew
The Austrian ship Gange is a total wreck on Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip. The crew of 19, with the captain and his wife, were rescued by…
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SHORTLY before midnight on Saturday the Austrian barque Gangs, 1071 tons, bound from London to Melbourne with a cargo of railway iron, cement, and sulphur, was (says…
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THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution has recently published its annual report, from which we learn that the important work of the society was…
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The steamship Ben Ledi went ashore on Boat Rocks on the 18th June. The crew and passengers were saved, but the vessel became a total wreck, and was plundered by Chinese fishermen. Boat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Burning of an American River Steamer. Terrible Scenes
THE particulars which have come to hand of the total destruction of the river steamer Champlain at the mouth of the Great Traverse Bay, show that…
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Seven thousand five hundred bales of wool have been salvaged from the ship Darling Downs, which sank at the mouth of the Thames after having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Austrian Barque Ljubirod
Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. have been advised by their Thursday Island office that the Austrian barque Ljubirod has gone ashore on Bet Island Reef, 40 miles from Thurs day Island, and lies in a…
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