The Stranded Steamer Eurimbla
BRISBANE, Sunday.—The steamer Traganisi, despatched to assist the stranded steamer Eurimbla, has returned to port, the sea outside Morton Bay being too rough for…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1888
128 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 7
Foundering of a Steamer.—eleven Persons Drowned
A large steamer belonging to Workington has foundered in the Solway Firth. Eleven of the crew were drowned…
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News is published of a terrible disaster in America. A river steamer at Memphis caught fire, having over 200 passengers on board at the time…
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A SHOCKING accident, resulting in the loss of four men, happened to the Gorleston lifeboat Refuge on Saturday evening, November 10. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Burning of a Mississippi Steamer
Further particulars of the catastrophe to a steamer on the Mississippi state that the boat took fire at Louisiana, and that the loss of life was…
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A terrible disaster is reported during a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay. The steamer Storm Queen, bound from Sebastopol to Holland, experienced…
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By the foundering of the steamer Storm Queen, the captain and five of the crew were drowned. The vessel had a register of 1375 tons, and was…
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THE awful fire on board a Mississippl steamer was caused by a lighted cigarette being dropped among some cotton in the cargo. The pilot ran…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Era
Messrs W. H. Smith and Sons' recently-constructed steamer Era, intended for the intercolonial trade, arrived here on Saturday from Sydney, for the purpose of loading coal…
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