A Royal Jack Ketch
TIMES have sadly changed since King George of Tonga was quoted as a brilliant example of missionary conversion. Once his name was in the mouths of all travellers as a notable…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1888
128 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 7
A Royal Jack Ketch
TIMES have sadly changed since King George of Tonga was quoted as a brilliant example of missionary conversion. Once his name was in the mouths of all travellers as a notable…
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TIMES have sadly changed since King George of Tonga was quoted as a brilliant example of missionary conversion. Once his name was in the months of all travellers as a notable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Foundering of a Steamer
The Confederation, sailing from New York to Australia with 58 persons on board, has foundered in the Pacific. After 40 days had been…
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A steamer, to be named the Peninsular, intended as an addition to the fleet of the P. and O. Company, has been launched at Greenock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ketch Envy Ashore
The ketch Envy, a well-known coaster, whilst being towed into the Bellinger River on Thursday by the tug Harrington, got ashore and now lies in a dangerous position…
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The following message was yesterday received from the stationmaster at Fernmount:â"The Rev. Mr. Harrison, who came from Corinda Station yesterday, reports,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Wreck of a Ketch
WRECKAGE of the ketch Eliza, 57 tons, trading on the coast, and belonging to J. Wetherton, of Sydney, has been washed ashore at Corinda Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Henry James
The British Minister at Washington has informed Denis Donahue, consul at San Francisco, that the British Government would present Captain H. M. Hayward, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Eliza
No news having come to hand of the whereabouts of the crew of the ill-fated ketch Eliza, the wreck of which was found last week on the coast between the Bellinger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranding of a P. and O. Steamer
THE steamer Nepaul, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, went aground shortly after midnight on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wreck of a Schooner
News was received in Melbourne on Friday last by cable from San Francisco that the American schooner Makah, 690 tons, with a cargo of timber from Puget Sound to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Borealis
In connection with the loss of the brigantine Borealis off the Queensland coast, the Townsville Marine Board, after having heard the evidence of the captain, mate, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage at the Fiji Group
When the s.s. Pukaki was at Fiji intelligence was received from Loma Loma that a lot of wreckage, evidently belonging to a large vessel, had been washed ashore at…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—The small steamer Iris, bound form Cooktown to Bundaberg, in ballast, sprang a leak yesterday off Bowen, and sank in 16 fathoms of water…
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A barque, name unknown, struck on the Good , win Sands, and was drawn in by suction, and at once disappeared with all hands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Dreadnought
Some thirty years ago the name of the clipper ship Dreadnought was a household word in Liverpool oh account of the fame the vessel obtained through her remarkably…
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A new steamer has been launched for the P. and O. Co.'s Australian service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Schooner Forest King
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Captain Burkett, of the steamer Jumna, which has arrived here, brings additional particulars of the privations endured by the crew of the schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Alameda
AT a meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union, a deputation, representing the Maritime Council, waited upon the meeting in regard to the arrival of…
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