The Steamer Agapanthus
The steamer Agapanthus reached Melbourne on Saturday from Java via Albany and Adelaide. She arrived at Adelaide on Tuesday and was ordered on to Melbourne by telegram. During the voyage a…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 16
Sale of the Wrecked Glanworth
The wreck of the steamer Glanworth as she lies off Gladstone was sold by auction yesterday, and was bought by Mr. R. M. Hyne, of Maryborough, for £75. The cargo was not sold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Wollumbin. The Mate's Certificate Suspended. Sydney
THE Marine Board met to-day to deal with the certificate of Mr. William May, mate of the steamer Wollumbia. Captain Colvin said that the compasses…
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The steamer Ocean Queen has arrived at Noumea, and the captain reports that when in the New Hebrides he learned that on the 28th ultimo the three-masted schooner Sydney Belle had gone on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer Ordered. for the West Australian Trade
LONDON, Monday.—Mr. W. T. Appleton, one of the directors of Huddart, Parker, and Company, has ordered a steamer to be constructed at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Collision in the Harbour. a Steamer Capsizes a Boat
INSPECTOR LYNCH has boon informed by Senior-constable H. Monday, of the water police, of a fatality in the harbour late on Monday night. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queensland Wrecks
A report received from Townsville says:—The steamer Ad Dent is now in dock being done up. The Ellen was patched, and launched on Saturday after the rocks were blasted away. The Alexandra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. the Wreck of the Glanworth
The Marine Board inquiry in the wreck of the Glanworth was resumed to-day. Captain R. S. Taylor, Lloyd's Surveyor, was examined at considerable length as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Bowra. Action in the Full Court. Sydney
IN the Full Court to-day, the case of Reynolds and others v. the North Queensland Insurance Company was continued. This was a motion by the defendants for a new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Victoria
Captain C. Saunders reports that the steamer Victoria left Sydney at 11 p.m. on January 29. arrived at Newcastle at 7 a.m. 30th; left Newcastle same day at 4.30 p.m.; arrived at Noumen February…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Aground in Suez Canal. Stoppage of Traffic
LONDON, Friday.—A steamer has gone aground in the Suez Canal, causing a complete stoppage of outward and homeward bound mail…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Catterthun Wreck.—proposed Salvage Work
A Sydney exchange has the following:—"At the time of the wreek of the steamer Catterthun on Seal Rocks there was much conjecture as to whether divers would be able to reach her to secure the 10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage Sighted
A letter has been received from the Harbour-master of Mackay, stating that the steamer Arawatta reported having passed a lower topmast, with boom attached, evidently belonging to a vessel about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Tarawera
The Union Company's steamship Tarawera, from New Zealand, left Auckland at 10 p.m. on Monday last, rounded the North Cape at 1 a.m. on Tuesday, sighted Port Jackson Heads at 10 30 p.m. on Friday…
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Captain T. Winslade report that the s.s. Age left Geelong at noon on the 20th instant, cleared port Philip Heads at 4 p.m. Rounded Wilson's Promontory at 2.18 a.m. 21st, Gabe Island 10.30 p.m. same…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Argonaut.—a Shipwrecked Crew
The ship Argonaut during the voyage from Sydney to London picked up the crew of the Italian barque Ida, which had been lost off the coast of Brazil. The shipwrecked people were landed in London. The Ida…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Missionary Steamer
The London Missionary Society steamer, John Williams returned to Sydney on Monday night. Captain Hore has called at 10 ports, and has been able to complete his round according to the dates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rakaia Ashore
The R.M.S. Aorangi has news from the Cape of the stranding of the steamer Rakaia, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's line, outward, bound from London to New Zealand. The vessel left London on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Cloncurry
Captain Hector M'Donald, of the steamer Cloncurry, reports having left Melbourne at 4.5 p.m. 22nd and adjusted compasses in Hobson,'s Bay 6.40 p.m., cleared Gellibrand Lightship, Port Phillip Heads at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Steamer
THE steamer Chilka, of the British India Steam Navigation Company's fleet, which reached the harbour on Friday from Sydney, narrowly escaped sinking on Saturday…
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