Wreck of the Result
An inquiry was commenced by the Sydney Marine Board yesterday concerning the wreck of the schooner Result, which was lost on September 30 at Abraham's Bosom. Captain Graham stated that at the time of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1893
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 17
Wreck of the Woonona. At the Fitzroy River. Sydney
THE steamer Woonona went ashore in the Fitzroy River yesterday, and a telegram was received in Sydney to-day stating that she was a total wreck. The Woonona was an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Schooner Aground
The Telegraph Department has received a memo, from Mackay, intimating that the schooner Philip Palfrey grounded on the flats in the river. The bottom apparently bulged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Heavy Gale at Nelson's Bay. Ketch Bound To Win Capsized. Loss of Three Lives. Nelson's Bay
THE ketch Bound to Win on attempting to enter the Leads this evening capsized. There was a strong westerly gale blowing at the time, and the Bound to Win was in light…
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The Marine Board, Rockhampton, gave their decision regarding the loss of the Woonona an Thursday. The board decided to fine the captain £10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Kirklock, From Mauritius. a Quantity of Wreckage Passed
EARLY on Saturday the barque Kirklock made her appearance in the harbour from Mauritius, after a passage of 50 days. The vessel is in command of Captain Casson, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Hazel Branch
The steamer Hazel Branch, on board which an explosion took place while on the voyage from Port Adelaide to Melbourne on the 7th September, left Adelaide for Sydney on Saturday afternoon, after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Welcome
Yesterday morning the schooner Welcome arrived at Sydney from Kaipara, timber laden. A start was made from Kaipara on the 14th instant, with light airs, which, with calms, were carried for the first…
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The steamer Hazel Branch, on board which an explosion took place while on the voyage from Port Adelaide to Melbourne on September 7, left Adelaide for Sydney on Saturday afternoon, after having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Otarama
Messrs. C. F. Stokes and Co. were advised last evening that the steamship Otarama had left Sydney for this port, and was expected to arrive sere this morning. She comes to load frozen meat for London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French Cable Steamer. Description of the Vessel. Laying of Submarine Cable
THE French cable steamer Francois Arago, which arrived in port on Wednesday, having laid the New Caledonia cable, completed taking in a supply of coal yesterday, and was…
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A wire from Auckland says that it has been ascertained from the natives that some months ago a large quantity of wreckage marked "Gowanburn" was washed ashore at Kawhia Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ketch Frolic.—mainmast Lost
On Saturday morning the little ketch Frolic, inward bound from Lake Macquarie with timber, lost her mainmast off Big Ben rock. The Frolic had a fair but strong wind from the Lake, and made a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Result. Sydney
THE Marine Board this afternoon resumed its adjourned inquiry into the loss of the schooner Result, which went ashore and was wrecked off the southern coast on October 3…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Ketch Totally Wrecked at Port Chalmers
Word is to hand from New Zealand that the ketch Alice Jane, from Lyttelton with timber, was totally wrecked when entering Port Chalmers on Sunday. The crew were saved. The Alice Jane was a wooden…
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The steamship Otarama took her departure yesterday for London, via Brisbane and Rockhampton, with 13,982 careases of mutton, 3307 haunches of mutton, 18 quarters beef, and 88 boxes of kidneys, also 650…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Gowanburn
Captain Johnson, of the steamer Eanieri, reported at Wellington last week that while in Kawhia Bay, for shelter, on Sunday week, he learned from the natives that a large quantity of wreckage marked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Suez Canal. Blocked by a Burning Steamer
LONDON, Friday.—The passage through the Suez Canal is blocked by a burning steamer, which could not be got through the canal before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Largest Cargo Steamer Afloat
The tendency to build larger vessels is exemplified by the launch of the Cevio recently from the yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast. The Cevio in the largest cargo steamer in the world. She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Alice Jane
Regarding the wreck of the ketch Alice Jane while sailing into the Heads, a report from Port Chalmers says she took the ground on the sandspit, having evidently missed the lights. She speedily became…
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