Schooner Elsinora Ashore
A Cape Otway wire received yesterday stated that the fore-and-aft schooner Elsinora, trading between Melbourne and Apollo Bay, went ashore at Apollo Bay that morning. No lives were lost…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 17
The Schooner Waitemata
Yesterday afternoon the schooner Waitemata reached the harbour from Dunedin, in ballast, after a passage of 14 days She is in command of Captain Camphill, and comes to the consignment…
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THE three-masted schooner Edith May, a regular Sydney trader, and owned by Mr. Taylor, timber merchant, of this city, was wrecked on Saturday about three miles to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Ashore in Apollo Bay
A telegram has been received by the Electric Telegraph Department from Cape Otway to the effect that the fore and aft schooner Elsinore, trading between…
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In splendid order, and after a tiptop passage of 18 days against head winds and heavy seas the greater part of the voyage, the E. and A. Company's Menmuir, in command of Captain Hugh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Total Wreck
According to the latest files to hand from China the China Merchant Company's steamer Hainsbeng is ashore near Chefoo, and is expected to become a total wreck. No…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Norwegian Steamer at Chicago
A report dated Chicago the 17th ultimo says:—"Much interest has been excited here by the arrival of the Norwegian steamer Wergeland, 400 tons burthen, which accomplished the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Supposed Attempt to Wreck
THIS morning the tramway officials discovered what appears to have been an attempt to wreck a tram on the Balmain line, several heavy boulders of stone having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranded Schooner Enterprise
The schooner Enterprise, of Melbourne, laden with 60 tons of bonedust for River Forth, went ashore at the Forth Heads (Tasmania) recently. When attempting to enter the river she got behind…
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The Marine Board inquiry at Auckland into the loss of the Sydney-owned barquentine Edith May, wrecked near Wanganui, resulted in the master, Captain Joss, being adjudged guilty of neglect in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Africa. The Brave Rescuers Entertained
THE ladies of this city, who are always to the front to assist in any noble cause, last night gave proof of their desire to mark their appreciation of the noble, self-sacrificing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ketch Strathmore Leaking
The ketch Strathmore left Strahan at 6 a.m. on the 4th inst, with a cargo of 131 tons of silver lead ore for Maryborough (Q). On arriving at the Macquarie Heads, which were reached at noon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. the Sunken Steamer Gambier
Efforts were made this afternoon to blow up the wreck of the Gambier by nitroglycerine. The charges placed around the hull amounted nearly to one and a quarter…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A pleasure steamer sunk in a collision off Helsingfors, in the Gulf of Finland, and 45 persons were drowned…
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The fore-and-at schooner Sovereign, half-yacht, half-trader, of Auckland build, paid a visit to Sydney yesterday morning after an absence of several years, the vessel being still under the…
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News by the mail states that the British steamer Dacia struck near Point Sagres in a dense fog, and foundered in half an hour. The German-Australian line steamship Chemnitz, from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Peter Stuart
In connection with the loss of the barque Peter Stuart, a report from Yarmouth dated July 4, says:—"Peter Stuart, from St. John for Liverpool (deals), ashore at Chebogue Point; vessel and…
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LONDON, Friday.—The are [?] of the lifeboat which recently rendered assistance in rescuing persons from the wreck of the Benkenne entered an action against the owners of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Zephyr
The locally—owned schooner Zephyr returned to the harbour yesterday from Rockhampton. Captain Wood is still in command. On this occasion the Zephyr has had a splendid run down of seven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ketch Strathmore
The ketch strathmore has met with another mishap. A report from Launceston says:—"The Hobart ketch strathmore arrived off Low Head on Wednesday disabled. She was on her way from…
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