Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. the Wreck of the Cairndhu
THE Marine Board has given its decision in the schooner Cairndhu, wrecked on one of the New Hebrides Group. The Board found there was…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 6
The Steamer Maitland Delayed. The Machinery Breaks Down
MORE than usual excitement was caused in Newcastle yesterday morning upon receipt of a telegram from Sydney stating that the Hunter River Co.'s steamship Maitland,…
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THE Marine Board held to-day an inquiry into the circumstances attending the breakdown of the steamer Maitland. Captain Carter, master…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Breakdown of the Steamer Lady Bowen. SYDNEY
THE steamer Lady Bowen, inward from Newcastle, broke down at 8 this morning, 10 miles from South Head. The pilot steamer Captain Cook went…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Steamship Cheviot. Great Loss of Life. Forty Persons Believed to be Drowned. Heavy Weather
ABOUT 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning, great consternation was caused in Newcastle by the receipt of a brief telegram announcing that Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons…
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Intelligence has been received that the P. and O. Company's new steamship Britannia has gone ashore near the Nore, at the mouth of the Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. the Steamer Birksgate
THE steamer Birksgate, which left Port Phillip Heads shortly before the Cheviot, arrived safely to-day. SIR HENRY PARKES…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foundering of the Schooner Ada and Ethel. All Hands Saved
BY the steamer Kingsley, which arrived here yesterday afternoon from Port Stephens, there were passengers Captain Frederick Cooper and the crew (five in number) of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Cheviot. Captain Richardson Exonerated
THE Melbourne Steam Navigation Board's Inquiry into the circumstances connected with the wreck of the Cheviot was resumed on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Launch of a Peninsular and Oriental Steamer
The Oceana, the third of this year's magnificent additions to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's fleet, says the British Australasian, was launched from Messrs. Harland and Wolff's yard at Belfast…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—The Electric Telegraph Department have received the following wire:— "Barque Ehzabeth Mary, bonud from Townsville to New Zealand, was wrecked on Barrier Reef at 2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Supposed Shipwrecked Crew on the Crozets
H.M.S. Thalia has been ordered to search the Crozet Islands for the shipwrecked crew of a French vessel, who were believed to be on the island from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Oxford
Two of the crew of the ill-fated barque Oxford, which was totally wrecked in a typhoon on the coast of Manila in September last, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the steamer Sikh (says…
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The P. and O. steamer Britannia sailed from London to-day for the Australian colonies with 340 passengers in the first and second saloon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marine Board Inquiry. Foundering of the Schooner Ada and Ethel
THE usual weekly meeting of the members of the Marine Board was held on Monday afternoon, the president, Captain Hixson, R.N., in the…
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The ketch Joker, employed in the coasting trade, went ashore on the North Beach at Nelson's Bay during the heavy southerly gale on Saturday. She is reported to be in no immediate danger. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer of the Olden Time
THE most ancient steam-vessel in the Government service has just been condemned, and will probably—although her name does not figure in Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Manhegan
By the T.S.N. Company's steamer Flora, which anchored in Watson's Bay on Monday evening, there arrived from Hobart a portion of the crew of the barque Manhegan, a Sydney-owned vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Schooner Florida
Advices received in Sydney, yesterday, from Cossack (W.A.), give further particulars of the loss of the three-masted schooner Florida, belonging to Mr. John Williams. The vessel, it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Burnt—four Hundred Passengers Drowned
The British steamer Wah Young has been burnt at Canton, and 400 passengers are supposed to have been drowned…
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