A New Steamer
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, launched from their yard on January 23 a steel screw steamer of about 5000 tons for the Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen. As the vessel…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 16
Wreck: 70 Lives Lost
LONDON, Sunday.—A heavy storm has occurred on the coast of England. The Grimsby fishing fleet was almost destroyed, and 70 lives were lost…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Messrs. Money Wigram's new steamer Suffolk, which has been launched at Leith, will trade to Australia…
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The schooner Marion, from Cooktown to Sudest, is a total wreck in Lark Passage, 20 miles from Cooktown. It is believed that no lives have been lost…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Huddart Parker, and Co.'s new steamer Wastwater has been launched at Hartlepool…
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The steamer Scout, a regular trader between Brisbane and the northern rivers, is reported by telegram to have gone ashore at Brunswick River. It seems that while crossing the bar on Sunday at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian News. New South Wales. Missionary Schooner
THE London Missionary Society's schooner Harrier, after a long absence at New Guinea, returned to Port Jackson on Tuesday night, bringing some teachers and children from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday Night. Wreck of a Schooner
News was received from Rockhampton yesterday that the Crinoline, schooner, was wrecked on a sandbank some miles from Port Bowen during the heavy gale on Monday…
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In connection with the wreck of the above vessel the following communication has been received from Boulogne, dated January 31:—" We have got our stevedores to work, and they got a good…
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The Collector of Customs at Brisbane has received a telegram from the sub collector at Rock-hampton intimating that the Crinoline, a schoener of 63 tons register, was wrecked at Port Bowen…
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SYDNEY, Monday Night.—The schooner Northern Belle has been wrecked off the Mutlab Banks Group. Four white men and sixteen Kanakas were drowned…
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The brig Para arrived at Brisbane from the South Seas on Monday bringing the survivors from the schooner Northern Belle, which founded on the 28th February, off Motlab…
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The China Navigation Company's steamer Tayuan, which arrived here yesterday from Hongkong, had a narrow escape from being totally wrecked on her last trip up to China from New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Northern Belle. A Terrific Hurricane. 19 Lives Lost. BRISBANE, Tuesday Night
THE brig Para, which arrived here from the. South Sea Islands yesterday, brought news of a dreadful hurricane, and bringing the survivors from the schooner Northern Belle,…
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The German barque F. H. Drews, 624 tons register, en route from Vancouver to Shanghai, encountered a typhoon on December 15 when about 800 miles off the Marianas group, and sank two days…
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The Hongkong files to hand by the E. and A. Company's s.s. Airlie give particulars of the wreck of the steamer Remus, whilst taking reliefs of Spanish soldiers to their various stations in the…
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A fire broke out on board the Ben line steamer Benlawers at Hongkong, just before the s.s. Tannadice started for Australia. Detachments of men with pumps were immediately sent on board, but…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—By the foundering of an excursion steamer on Lake Chapala, Mexico, thirty persons were drowned…
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The Minister for Works, in response to a request from Mr. P. Hogan, M.L.A., has promised to send appliances to blow up a wreck on the Macleay…
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ACKLAND, Saturday.—A hurricane of unexanmpled severity occurred on the Samoan coast on the evening of the 16th instant. Every vessel in the harbour of Apia was driven ashore except H.M.S…
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