Wreck at Kiama
The ketch Ino went ashore when trying to enter at Kiama yesterday. She became a total wreck, about 200 yards to the southward of the entrance. The crew succeeded in reaching the shore, and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
The Wreck of the Garston. The Men Taken off Humphrey Island
THE news of the wreck of the Garston has created a considerable sensation, and the following account of the disaster given by the chief officer of the Garston, Mr. George…
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NEW YORK, Friday Evening.—Intelligence has been received that the British gunboat Lily, a screw vessel of 172 tone, commanded by Captain Russell, struck on the rooks off…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A fatal shipping disaster is reported from the Isle of Man. The steamer Florence, bound to Belfast, has been totally wrecked on the coast of the Isle of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Night. the Wreck of the Bannockburn
THE Marine Board has decided that the wreck of the schooner. Bannockburn, at Byron Bay on July 17, was caused by the severity of the weather, and that there was no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Garston. The Captain's Story. A Thrilling Experience
ONE of the most thrilling stories of an experience at sea in a small boat is that contained in the diary which was kept by Captain Pye, of the ship Garston. The…
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The French mail steamer Tanais arrived in Port Jackson on Tuesday from Noumea, and took up a temporary berth at the new P. and O. wharf, Port Macquarie. The Tanals had 160 passengers,…
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News was received this morning that the Union Company's collier steamer Koranui had foundered at French Pass, but luckily no fatalities occurred…
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steamer Koranui, of the Union Co.'s line, foundered in the French Pass, near Nelson (N.Z.), on Thursday night. All on board wore saved. The Pass is a narrow passage between D'Urvide…
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The Union Company's steamer Koranui, a small vessel of 488 tons gross register, Captain Hill, was wrecked an the French Pass on Friday. She left Nelson on the previous…
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From a list prepared by the Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association, Melbourne, of casualties occurring to foreign-going vessels leaving ports in New South Wales from September,…
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The small schooner Corn has been wrecked at Raratonga, Cook's Islands, while laden with island produce. The crew were saved. [The Corn is a wooden schooner of 46 tons,…
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SIR,—Referring to the wreck of the ship Garston on Starbuck Island, allow me to hand you, for the information of those whom it may concern, a few remarks on the winds…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the steamer Koranui in the French Pass on Thursday night last has been concluded. The Marine Board found that…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.—While a large steamer was proceeding down the Mississippi to New Orleans to-day the boilers exploded and forty of the passengers and crew were…
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LONDON, Friday.—A dispatch from America reports a serious shipping disaster in the Atlantic Ocean. The steamer Earnmoor, bound from Baltimore, United States, to Rio…
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By the steamer Hauroto, from New Zealand, further particulars have been received of the wreck of the U.S.S. Company's steamer Koranui. The vessel, it will be remembered, struck on the rocks…
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A MYSTERIOUS incident is reported by the barque Florence Treat, which arrived in Sydney on Sunday from Puget Sound. It appears that when passing Duke of York…
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ONCE again Barnum's circus has come to grief, the brain containing to greatest show upon earth having been wrecked on its way to Canada, and seventy of the unfortunate…
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In incident of the voyage of the barque Florence Treat from Puget Sound to Sydney was the sighting of Duke of York Island, is the South Pacific, and the firing of two rockets by the…
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