Wreckage at the Islands
Captain Bowers, of Messrs. On Chong and Company's barque Loonugana, reports that when he was at Bataritari, on December 28, there was in port the American schooner Equator, the master of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 17
A New Steamer
The Union Company's new steamer Upolu, built by Fleming and Ferguson, of Paisley, for the Island trade, made her trial prior to the departure of the Cuzco's mails. She steamed at the…
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The steamer Konoowarrs, Captain Ellis, reports that when 35 mines S.E. of Chify Island he passed part of a vessel's deckhouse painted mast colour, Cliffy Island lies between Wilson's Promontory and…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The barque Ferndale, 1271 tons, Captain Blair, has been totally wrecked off Gray's Harbour, Washington, United States. Twenty of the crew were…
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LONDON, Monday.—The North German Lloyds' mail steamer Eider, bound from New York to Bremen, stranded at St. Catherine's Point, on the southernmost…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The southerly gale in the Channel is increasing in violence. The wrecked steamer Eider is being jammed on the rocks, and the seas are sweeping over the…
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An explosion, attended with appalling consequences, occurred at the scene of the wreck of the Carmarthenshire, near Cape Miwa, Japan. It appears that some dynamite which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tasmania. Hobart, Sunday. Ketch Stranded
The ketch Lotus, from northern ports, has been stranded at Macquarie Heads…
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Word has come to hand from the Cape of the loss of the ship Orchomene, a vessel well known at this port. It appears the ship arrived off Receiffe, after a passage of 72 days from Barry, when she…
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The steamer Endeavour, which arrived at Brunswick River on Sunday from Sydney, via Byron Bay, and drifted ashore on North Head, has become a total wreck, and is now breaking up. The cargo…
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On Saturday last there was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Mr. George Frost, of Kincumber, a fine coasting ketch. She was named the Kincumber. A large number of visitors were…
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The steamer Endeavour, which has become a total wreck at the Brunswick River, was formerly known as the Rose of Sharon. She was insured for £1000 in the Colonial Insurance Company…
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ERASMUS DARWIN, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed upon his seal the significant words, "Omnia ex conchis"—all things…
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The locally-owned schooner Zephyr returned to the harbour yesterday afternoon from Townsville to where she took a coal cargo. The passage has been a lengthy one, extending to 20 days. But,…
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A body was washed ashore on the ocean beach at Sorrento between the rocks at "London Bridge." It is that of a man about 30 years of ago, dressed in light…
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No hopes are entertained of floating the steamer Endeavour, which went on the rocks at Brunswick Heads on Sunday last. A wire from that locality received yesterday, stated that the vessel…
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THE Warrimoc, one of the new steamers, being built to the order of Huddart, Parker, and Co., for the Australian trade, is now nearly completed, and the vessel will…
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CAPTAIN ANDERSON, master of the steamer Cairnglen, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was prosecuted by the Board of Trade at the Newport, Mon.,…
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The Board of Trade inquiry which has been held at Sunderland into the cause of the stranding at Blyth of the large new four-masted sailing ship Dominion, on December 7, revealed a very singular…
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News from Tahiti by the steamer Richmond states that last month a small colonial French vessel, the schooner Irene, built at Papeete by Turner and Chapman for the Island trade,…
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