Wreck of the Orchomene
An iron sailing ship, the Orchomene, well known hero, with a cargo of coal, struck on the Roman Rock at the entrance to Algoa Bay on Saturday night, 16th January, and has since…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 17
Wrecked on the Goodwins
ERASMUS DARWIN, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed upon his seal the significant words, " Omnia ex conchis"—all things…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Circe Ashore
The brigantine Circe, from Greymouth, went ashore on Macqurie Harbour bar on Sunday. The crew, numbering seven, got the boat launched, but it capsized. They were rescued alter clinging to…
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A report received from Harwood Island yesterday, stated that the steamer Kallatina's machinery broke down on Wednesday, and that it was being repaired there. She was expected to leave again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cruise of the Schooner Beagle. "Bloom" and "Douglas" have a Gay Time
CAPTAIN GILL, late of the Beagle, interviewed by an Argus reporter, recently related the following strange eventful history of his trip with two…
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MR. EDISON has been turning his ingenious attention to the production of an easily-worked electric lifeboat. He is stated to have designed one…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Five-masted Schooner Louis
The American five-masted fore-and-aft schooner Louis again renewed her acquaintance with thin port, when she arrived yesterday from Melbourne. Captain Hatch is still in command. The Louis is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Cattle Steamer
The Darwin, the first of the Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co.'s subsidiced steamer for the cattle trade between the Northern Territory and the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Ketch
On Saturday last there was launched from the yard of Mr. Rock Davis, Blackwall, a fine ketch to the order of Messrs. Hibbard, Booth, and Captain Goreeks, late of the schooner Victoria who will…
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A wire was received yesterday from the Jervis Bay lighthouse-keeper, to the effect that a large steamer, making plenty of smoke, signalled that her machinery was disabled, and could only use…
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The Sydney Marine Board gave its decision yesterday in the matter of the wreck of the steamer Endeavour at the Brunswick River when crossing the bar, as follows:—"The Board finds that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →River Nith Ashore
The British ship River Nith, Captain Jones from Portland (Oregon), for Sligo, went ashore at Broadhaven, on the west coast of Ireland, on February 3. The ship was reported to be leaking so…
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The steamer which was reported disabled off Jervis Bay on Monday, turned out to be the Flora, from Hobart, and not the Taiera. The accident however, to her machinery was not of such a…
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The stranded steamer Macleay, which went ashore at the Richmond River, is still hard and fast. Captain John Hall, of the Sydney Underwriters' Association, was a passenger by the steamer…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The North German Lloyd's steamer Eider, which went ashore on the Isle of Wight during a dense fog in January last, and was thought likely to…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The British steamer Mossina has foundered in the Gulf of Gascony, France. Twenty-five lives were lost…
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A court of inquiry into the loss of the brigantine Cierce at Macquarie Harbour was held at Hobart on Saturday last. The master of the vessel, Captain George Henry Jane, stated that he held a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seamen's Wages in Case of Wreck
If a vessel is lost at sea and her crew is saved, when does the seamen's wages terminate? Or, in other words, does the engagement between owner and seamen end with the wreck, or is it incumbent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Elginshire
The steamer Elginshire, which went on the rocks near Timaru, has been abandoned to the underwriters. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD…
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The schooner Prosperity had a very narrow escape of going ashore on North Head, Sydney, on Tuesday night when going out. She was picked up by the steamer Tamar, which was also…
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