Steamer Overdue
LONDON, Thursday.—The s.s. Erin is a fortnight overdue. She has aboard about 50 of a crew, but no passengers…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890
519 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 26
How Ships Get Ashore
ABOUT the s.s. Riverina, and many another good ship lost, there is much conjecture and doubt (says the Melbourne Argus), and many learned summings up to the effect of,…
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A meeting of underwriters concerned in the cargo of the barque Glenrosa, wrecked off Beachport, South Australia, was held at Brisbane on Friday. Brisbane advices to hand stated that some…
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Captain Page, of the s.s. Taramung, which reached Newcastle on Saturday from Melbourne, reports, when passing Ram Head at an early hour on Friday morning last, a heavy easterly sea was…
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SIR,—In reference to a paragraph (extract from Melbourne Argus), which appeared in your issue of this morning, kindly allow a seaman a few words in reply. The gallant…
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A TELEGRAM has been received this morning stating that the schooner Bonnie Dundee, dismasted, was in tow of the Burrumbeet, steamer, Captain George Tait, from Hobart…
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Captain Grant, of the three-masted American schooner John Worster, reports leaving Melbourne on the 15th of January; had easterly winds and thick weather, sometimes light east winds and…
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THE steamer Burrumbeet, with the schooner Hally Bayley in tow, arrived in port shortly after 5 o'clock this morning, and the latter vessel was brought to an anchorage below…
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The following particulars have been received from Captain Hall, the marine surveyor:—"Riverina total wreck. Coming to Sydney with crow, 1500 cases brandy, 11…
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The schooner Ebenezer arrived in port yesterday from Nelson. Captain Mine reports leaving Nelson on the 27th of January, and had fair winds to arrival in port. On reaching the harbour she was…
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THE steamer Aldinga, which was dispatched last Wednesday to the scene of the wreck of the steamer Riverina, at Ram Head, on the Victorian coast, with Captain Hall, marine…
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The ketch Evelyn, 61 tons, laden with explosives and cement, left Moreton Bay on 29th January for Maryborough, having on board Captain Anderson, the owner, his wife, and a crow of four. A heavy…
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On Wednesday night and yesterday morning, a large quantity of wreckage was washed ashore south of Clarence Heads. The wreckage consisted of bulwarks, hatches, decks, cabin fittings, and…
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The steamer Bellinger, which arrived at Sydney on Thursday evening from the Richmond River, passed close to a vessel's mast just north of Seal Rocks at daylight same day. The mast was…
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Mr. James Anderson, secretary of the Underwriters' Association, Sydney, received a telegram yesterday morning from Captain Hall, marine surveyor, at the wreck of the Riverina, stating that…
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The wreck of the Glenrosa was sold at Adelaide by auction on Saturday for £180, and the cargo, except the interest of the China Trades Insurance Company, for £220, the purchaser of both being…
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An American paper by the R.M.S., Alameda says:—"The American four-masted schooner Douglas Dearborn is drifting bottom up north of the Columbia River. She was built 1888 at Bath,…
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THE steamer Aldinga, after a stay of three days at the scene of the wreck of the ill-fated Riverina, arrived this morning, having in tow the lighter, Greyhound, loaded with…
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No news has yet been received here respecting the missing coasting schooners Kent and Sussex, and grave fears are entertained as to their safety. A telegram was received at Sydney from the…
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A shipwrecked crew have arrived at Honolulu under the following circumstances:—The whaling barque Jacob A. Howland, Captain M'Inness, which was out on a cruise, went ashore on…
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