A Steamer Cut in Two
LONDON, Friday.—The French ironclad Hoche came into collision with the steamer Canrobert at Marseilles. The Canrobert was out in halves, and lank almost…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 17
Appalling Steamer Accident on Lake Geneva. Explosion of a Boiler. Twenty Four Persons Killed and Many Injured
LONDON, Sunday.—A terrible accident occurred on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. A boiler exploded on board a steamer, and 24 passengers were killed, whereof three were…
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The Kaikoura has arrived at Hobart. bringing with her at the passengers of the steamer Port Douglas, which was wrecked off St. Vincent on May 24. The exact position of the wreck was off…
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The ketch Mystery, bound from Sydney to Camden Haven with a cargo of machinery sprang a leak on Thursday night, and the vessel foundered when to the forward of Bird Island. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Weathersfield
Efforts are still being made do get the barque Weathersfield of the Otaki beach. Wellington, where she ran ashoro over two genre ago. A few weeks ago she was removed about two feet, and the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—News has just been received that the ironclad Almirante Brown, belonging to the Argentine Republic, has foundered off the coast of Uruguay during a…
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The Rimac is the name of a new steel four-masted schooner, square rigged forward. She has just been built by John Reid and Co., on the Clyde, for Nicholson and M'Gill, Liverpool, and is…
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The barquentine Grecian Bend still remains ashore at Woolgoolga. A telegram received in Sydney states that an attempt was made to float the vessel on Wednesday, but proved unsuccessful…
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A TELEGRAM from Marseilles to the Soleil states that a swarm of locusts invaded the principal quarters of Algiers. The mail steamer Marechal…
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The tender of a syndicate of Port Chalmers shipwrights has been accepted for floting and placing in the Lyttelton graving dock the steamer Elginshire, stranded off Timaru, and we sincerely…
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LAST evening, about 7 o'clock, the little steamer Nellie was sunk in the harbour opposite the Market wharf, by being struck by a lighter she had in tow. It appears that…
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Regarding the wrecked steamer Port Douglas an English exchange to hand under date, June 10, says:—"The owners have received the following telegram through the Grand Canary Coaling…
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Messrs. Callen Brothers' little steamer Nellie, which was sunk in the harbour on Monday evening by a lighter she had in tow, was still under water yesterday. Two lighters were placed over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the Murrum-bidgee. Encountering Wreckage. Probable Loss of a Big Vessel. MELBOURNE
THE murrumbidgee arrived in the bay this morning, and with her comes news of what in all probability has been a disaster at sea. The steamer had rough weather after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Thursday. the Ketch Nellie May
The ketch Nellie May was driven in the late gale on the rocks of Rapid Bay, but the men on board escaped by springing on the reef…
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There was launched by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, at Belfast, another addition to the well-known fleet of the White Star Line in the large cargo steamer Naronic, specially designed for the…
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The Premier has cabled to London to ask if the steamer Arawa will call at Amsterdam Island and conduct a search for any persons who might have landed from the wreckage…
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Captain and Mrs. Beveridge, the officers and crew all speak in the highest terms of praise of the humane action of Captain Anderson and the bravo fellows who risked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmania. Launceston, Friday. a Fatal Wreck
The ketch Enterprise, which went ashore at Forth Head yesterday, is now broken up, and is a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Sunday. Shipwrecked Crew
The shipwrecked crew of the Speculant left for Sydney yesterday. CHINESE SAILORS. Eight of the Chinese crew of the Loire…
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