Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Another Steamer From China Quarantined
THE Steamer Tartar, from Hongkong, has been quarantined. There are 163 passengers and crew. LARGE SALE OF PROPERTY…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1888
128 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 7
[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Monday. Awful Hurricane at Madagascar.—eleven Vessels Wrecked.—much Loss of Life
A terrific hurricane has occurred in Madagascar. The town of Tamatave was laid in ruins. Eleven vessels were wrecked, and many lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Friday. Disastrous Wreck
The barque Lanoma, from Launceston, has gone ashore at Portland. The captain and eleven of the crew have been lost. There will be very…
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A Launceston correspondent gives the following particulars of the barque Lanoma, which was wrecked in the English Channel on March 8:—The iron clipper barque Lanoma, 665 tons, belonged to…
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The ship Plione, from London to Wellington, is a total wreck at Foxton, on the New Zealand coast. All hands are saved…
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LONDON, Thursday night.—The ship Loch Garry, 1493 tons, belonging to the Glasgow shipping Company, which left; Melbourne on December 21 for London, has gone ashore at the mouth of the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The schooner Isabella, from Wilson's Promontory, with stones for the defence works, foundered off Port Arlington yesterday through springing a leak. The vessel was…
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The strained relations between France and Italy have been intensified by the report that a French squadron fired two she's at the Italian steamer…
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The Oceana left Colombo for Australia on Monday morning…
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It has transpired that the Colonial Union Company's s.s. Selembria, from New Zealand en route to London with a freight of frozen meat, put into…
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INTELLIGENCE has reached Queenstown of the loss of the British steamship Corinthian and seven of her crew, whale on a voyage from Vera Cruz to…
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THE details of one of the most terrible tragedies that have ever occurred on the high seas have just been received in Liverpool. It appears that on the…
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ON Saturday morning the barque Speedwell, Captain Sampson, from Melbourne, in ballast, reached this port about 5 o'clock, and stood off for short time waiting for orders from…
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Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons' now steamship Age, intended for the coal trade between Newcastle and Melbourne, arrived here yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and berthed at the Stockton shoot, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Total Wreck
THE schooner Ensign is a total wreck on the Surprise Reef, Cairns. RETIRED FROM THE SERVICE. The schooner Harrier, late engaged…
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THE barque Lanoma, from Tasmania for London, laden with wool, went ashore on the night of March 8, about 300 yards south-east of Fleet Flangstaff. Of the crow, eighteen in…
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There was launched, on March 15, from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. James and Thomson, Clyde Bank, near Glasgow, amidst a blinding snow-storm, the City of New York, the first of two…
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ABOUT half-past 2 o'clock on the afternoon of March 9th, the coastguard at Atherfield, on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, observed a full-rigged ship coming up the…
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A telegram from Queensland reports the loss of the barque Ensign, of Melbourne. The vessel came to grief on the Surprise Reef, situated outside the Great Barrier Reef, abreast of Cairns. All hands…
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As was anticipated (says yesterday's S. D. Telegraph), the recent heavy weather has seriously effected the position of the steamer Tweed at the Tweed River, and she is now reported to be a total…
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