Loss of a Steamer
LONDON, Tuesday.—A despatch to hand reports the wreck of the Norwegian steamer Normand among the Pescadores Islands in the China Sea, the scene of the recent loss of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 17
The Wrecked Drumblair
The steam tug Albatross, which returned to Melbourne from Waratah Bay on Monday, brought the latest news of the stranded ship Drumblair. Captain M'Meikan reports that he reached the ship at 8 a.m…
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We hear much (says Engineering) of the finely modelled ships that are built from time to time, but little of the many vessels that are lost. Occasionally public interest is excited by heroism displayed in…
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The little harbour steamer Iona, one of the dyke ferry boats, has just completed her usual half-yearly overhaul, and has again taken up the running. Whilst being laid up the Iona received a new…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Intelligence has been received that the Anchor liner Roumania, bound from Liverpool to Bombay, with a large complement of…
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LONDON, Monday.—Further particulars have been received concerning the loss. of the Anchor liner Roumania, which was totally wrecked off the…
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The Ariel has completed a labour cruise, the first she has made since the new regulation came into force in Queensland permitting vessels to engaged in the Polynesian labour trellis. She returned with 62 boys…
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A curious piece of new is reported in the shipping sales, namely, that the German schooner Venus, which stranded at Grangemouth, has been sold for the sum of one penny—the purchaser, however, being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Smokeless Steamer
A smokeless steamer has been tried in Berlin. The fuel used is a kind of cake or briquettes. When the steamer left the landing the furnace was first fired with pit coal, when quantities of smoke were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Roumania. Alleged Neglect of the Officers. Two of the Survivors Naked on a Desolate Shore. Denial of the Charges
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Lisbon correspondent of the Times has interviewed Captain Hamilton and Lieutenant Rooke, two of the survivors of…
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On Sept. 24 the new steamer Darius was launched at Pallion by Messrs, William Doxford and Sons, Limited, for Messrs. Archibald Currie and Co., of Melbourne, Victoria…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The British ironclad Howe has gone ashore on a reef at the entrance to Farrol, a seaport in Spain. The vessel is in a bad…
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THE Messageries Maritimes steamer Armand Behic arrived to-day. Her Melbourne passengers landed were placed in quarantine and the vessel proceeded to Sydney. It appears…
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Information has been received of the wreck of a Portuguese launch, the Flor de Cubeha, which left Beira early in July late to convey an party up the coast for purposes of exploration and sport. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CABLEGRAMS. The Ironclad Howe. a Wreck Feared
LONDON, Friday.—The report of the successful floating of the ironclad Howe was premature, It transpires that all attempts to float her have…
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The schooner Christine, from Long Island to the Bluff, with guano, has put into Auckland leaking. She sprang a leak during a heavy gale on October 19. Oil bags, were used, but the ship was strained greatly…
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A telegram from Auckland, dated November 1, says:—"The Poherua, which arrived at Fiji on October 27 from Newcastle, reports sighting a wreck at Middleton's Reef, 350 miles off the Queensland coast…
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On September 21 the schooner Ruby returned to Santo Barbara from the wreck of the British ship Goldeahern on Santo Rosa Island, and reported that the vessel has broken in two between the fore and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Steamer Ashore
A TELEGRAM was received by the Marine Board this afternoon to the effect that the steamer Wellington, when attempting to cross out from the Nambucca River for Sydney,…
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A vessel, ketch-rigged, was launched on Thursday from Mr. Thomas Davis' shipbuilding yard, Terrigal. She is 100ft in length overall. The new vessel is fitted with a steam winch, and fore and aft cabins with…
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