New Steamer for the Union Company
THE new Union Company's steamer Moana, which is to replace the Monowai in the Sydney and San Francisco trade, will be a vessel of 4500 tons…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
Wreck of the Gainsborough
A CABLE has been received by the underwriters reporting the loss of the ship Gainsborough, well known hero. The vessel went ashore at Honolulu, and so far as is known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ketch Spray
News of the ketch Spray. Captain Slocum, from Boston, on a voyage round the world, was received yesterday afternoon by the Taiyuan. The Spray, whose only occupant is her adventurous commander,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The South Australian Lifeboat
The new steam lifeboat recently presented to the south Australian Government for work on the south-east coast is now in Port Adelaide undergoing an overhaul, and will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer for the Coast Trade
The Melbourne shipping Company is adding another steamer to their present ships for the coastal service. The company has the Melbourne and the Beeswing doing good work in the cargo trade. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer in Australian Waters
The first steamer that ever came to the colonies was a vessel known as the Sophia Jane, Captain Biddulph, which arrived at Sydney in 1828, and was engaged in the northern coast trade. The second…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Huddart, Parker, and Company's new steamer Westralia, which has been built for the Australian intercolonial trade, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Steamer Tutenakai
The new steel twin-screw steamer Tutenakai, which Captain Fairchild went home from New Zealand to bring out, arrived at Hobart from Glasgow. The vessel has been specially designed and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of a Coasting Steamer
News has been received in Melbourne to the effect that coasting steamer Bogong had sprung a leak about a mile and a half from the Snowy River entrance, and had sunk. The captain and two men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Swift
The preliminary inquiry into the wreck of the Swift at Twilight Cove on August 31, was commenced at Esperance on Wednesday. The evidence of the master, Captain Cockcroft, showed that the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ship Patrician. Particulars of the Wreck. Sydney
BY the steamship Wakatipu, which arrived to-day, there came as passengers Captain Sterling and the officers and crew of the ship Patrician, which foundered during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Bogong
Late advices from the scene of the wreck state that the Bogong went to pieces within 20 minutes of going ashore. The bodies of the missing men have not yet been recovered their names are:âCharles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Chindera. Marine Board Inquiry. Sydney
THIS afternoon the Marine Board held an inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Chindera on September 9 at the Tweed River. Captain John Pearson, master of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Schooner Stranded
A telegram from Thursday Island states that the barquentine Daysoring belonging to the West Australian Pearlshelling Company, went aground on North-west reef, Torres Straits, on Wednesday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage Sighted
Captain Goodman, of the Robert Lewers, which [?]as arrived at Sydney from 'Frisco, reports that on [?]i September 12 passed within two miles of Vstoa or [?]urtle Islands, and observed what appeared to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Terrible Hurricane. Twenty Towns Wrecked. Loss of Forty Lives
LONDON, Thursday.—The latest intelligence to hand regarding the hurricane which swept over the Atlantic States yesterday states that it caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Port Melbourne. Mishap to the Machinery
LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Port Melbourne, of the Anglo-Australasian line, which left London for Sydney on September 24, has put into Lisbon to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Gainsborough
Later particulars to hand concerning the loss of the barque Gainsborough show that the vessel left Westport on June 22, and on approaching the Hawaiian Islands the captain decided to put into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marine Board Inquiry. The Wreck of the Chindera
THE adjourned inquiry concerning the wreck of the steamer Chindera at the Tweed River was continued before the Sydney Marine Board yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Novel Steamer
Recently there was launched in Paris a vessel named the Batean Rouleur, which, if the expectations of the designer are realised, will form a new departure in naval…
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