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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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887
109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 6
The Loss of the British Steamer Wah Yeung
THE Wah Yeung, in which 400 passengers have perished by fire and drowning, was a wooden vessel, built at Hongkong in 1884. She was of 313 tons net register and 525 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Sunday. Loss of a Steamer in the English Channel
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY LIVES LOST. A collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday evening in the English Channel, between the…
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IN Reuter's telegrams will be observed the tidings of a terrible collision between steamers, in the English Channel, on Saturday night. The Rotterdam steamer Schotten…
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News has reached Sydney from Noumea by the steamer Dupleix of the stranding of the French missionary schooner Guillaume Dourre. The vessel went ashore on the east coast of New…
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NEWS was received in Launceston on Monday night that the steamer Flinders had put back to Georgetown with her cargo on fire. Just as she was…
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By the E. and A. Company's steamer Tannadice there arrived at Sydney from Hongkong two shipwreeked seamen of the British ship Monarch. The men tell a strange tale. Their ship, a vessel of…
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The following telegram has been received by the Superintendent of Telegraphs for West Australia: —"The schooner Janet, from Colombo, has been totally wrecked on Transit Reef, near Rottnest…
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Advices received in Sydney by Mr. John Williams report the loss of the American three-masted schooner Two Boys in the vicinity of the Caroline Islands. The vessel, it appears, arrived off Ponape,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer for the Intercolonial Trade
Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons, through their London agents, have secured a magnificent now steamer for the intercolonial trade (says yesterday's Sydney Daily Telegraph). The new…
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