A New Steamer
LONDON, Thursday.—A new steamer for the New Zealand Shipping Company was successfully launched to-day. The new vessel was named the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
Smallpox on Board a Mail Steamer. Tardy Report by the Ship's Doctor. Albany
THE French mail steamer Australian arrived from Colombo this morning. After discharging cargo and landing passengers, the doctor reported a case of smallpox on board…
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Last week Mr. Faulkner, the local Government diver, descended to the wreck of the steamer Favourite, lying in about 17 fathoms of water on the North Spit of Clarence Heads, in close proximity to the…
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NEWS has been received at Adelaide from Cape Leeuwin (W.A.) that the wreck of a vessel washed ashore there on Friday. The vessel is supposed to be the barque Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destructive Fire at Coventry. Humber Cycle Works Wrecked
LONDON, Friday.—The works of the Humber Cycle Company at Coventry were destroyed, together with the machinery, by fire to-day…
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The E. and A. Co.'s steamer Guthrie arrived at Sydney yesterday from Foochow direct with a cargo of the new season's tea. Captain M'Arthur reports leaving Foochow at noon on 30th ultimo, called at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Cygnet Ashore
A strong southerly gale was blowing in Sydney yesterday which greatly impeded the movements of the shipping and during the heavy squalls the Manly Ferry steamer…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Four hundred and fifty tons of cargo has been landed from the steamer Woolloomooloo, which was beached in Cherbourg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tug Ashore
A wire from the Manning River yesterday states that the tug John Gollan went ashore on the north beach yesterday while towing in the schooner Louisa Lamont from Sydney. The schooner is now anchored…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Steamer for the P. and O. Company
On June 13 Messrs. Harland and Wolff launched from their yard the large steel screw steamer China for the P. and O. Company. She is 500ft in length, and 8550 tons gross. The China is intended for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Nornan
A telegram from Thursday Island yesterday stated that a search schooner had returned from Murray Island. They found the second mate and two of the crew of the wrecked barque Nornan there. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Barque Ashore
The barque Isle of Erin recently took the ground at the Thames (N Z.) while being towed from the Kopu to an anchorage near the entrance to the river. She was towed off after jettisoning her deckload of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Cattle Steamer
The steamer Urmston Grange, now completing her loading of frozen meat at Sydney, will take 16,000 careases of mutton from Sydney and go round the Horn to the River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage
During the voyage of the barque Ancyra from Newcastle to Valparaiso, part of a ship's boat painted drab colour was passed, and also a quantity of wreckage that looked like broken spars. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Aground
While proceeding to sea about 5.30 on Saturday morning the steamer Ouraka grounded on the lightship rocks and remained fast until 7.30 a.m., When she floated off and proceeded to sea. The Ouraka…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Dutch Steamer Captured. Conveying Rifles to the Abyssinians
LONDON, Monday.—Information has just been received that the Italian cruiser Etna has captured a Dutch steamer named the Daelwyk, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Novel Bull Fight. Women Fighters. a Scene of Riot and Wreckage
LONDON, Monday.—A serious riot occurred at a bull fight at Marseilles on Sunday. The spectators were incensed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Collision. Beaching of a French Steamer. Mishap to a British Ship
LONDON, Monday.—While the Cape York, a four-masted steel barque, of 3030 tons, bound from Antwerp to Port Pirie, South Australia, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckage Sighted
The steamer Helen Nicoll left Esperance on August 14, and on the passage to Adelaide Captain Steel reports that when 40 miles west of Neptune Islands he passed through a lot of wreckage, which looked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Ashore. Near Smoky Cape
THE following telegram was posted at the telegraph office yesterday:—Bellinger River, Monday, 9 a.m. The steamer Idea, from Port Macquarie. August 23, reports…
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