Another Wool Steamer
The P. and O. Company have been advised that the steamer Candia, 6100 tons register, will come to Sydney from Hongkong to load wool for the London January sales…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 18
Wreck of the Sultan of Bombay. Valuable Aid by the Valetta. Ninety Persons Saved. Adelaide
CAPTAIN LADO, of the Valetta, reports saving 90 persons from the wreck of the steamer Sultan of Bombay, which he met foundering on June 10. Thirty-five persons were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Aden. Boats Swept Away. Passing Vessels Vainly Signalled. Terrible Hardships
LONDON, Thursday.—After the steamer Aden struck the monsoon grew worse. Both the lifeboat and gig were driven away immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Steamer for the North Coast Company
The new paddle steamer Euroka, built by Messrs. Foster and Minty, of Balmain, for the North Coast Company, made a successful trial trip in Sydney on Tuesday. The vessel was built to supply a want in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked Steamer Dove
Latest particulars of the wreck of the steamer Dove, which was previously reported, show that the steamer was bound from Cairns to Cooktown, and was wrecked last Thursday morning in Arnaze Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer for the Intercolonial S.s. Company
Captain Jorgenses, who achieved a reputation with the Storm King, left Melbourne by the Oruba on Saturday to bring out the Melbourne Shipping Company's new vessel, the steamer Perth, which, as her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of a Mission Vessel. Wreck of the Meda
NEWS has been received in Sydney that the Wesleyan Mission schooner Meda had, struck on the East Cape, on the New Guinea coast, and had become a total wreck. The Meda…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Sunken Steamer
The "Courier de Saigon" notes the starting of operations for saving the steamer Canton, belonging to the Compagnie Nationale, which stranded in Tourane bay last January. All efforts to float the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wainui Ashore
The Union Company's steamer Wainui struck the rocks near the French Pass (N Z ) on Monday night during a fog. In trying to beach her, she struck a reef, and now lies in a favourable position. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A French Steamer Overdue
The Messageries Maritimes steamship Tanais, which was due at Sydney on Tuesday, or at latest early on Wednesday, from Noumea with passengers and mails for the company's steamship Australian,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Leaking
Early on Friday morning the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Croydon returned to Fremantle in a critical condition. When the vessel left the jetty the sea was running high, and when 40 miles out the chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Schooner
There was launched on Saturday from Mr. David Blake's shipbuilding yard at Balmain a new schooner built to the order of Messrs. John Hibbert and Sons, of Port Macquarie. The schooner was named the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of a Steamer
The steamer Whampoa brings news from China of the loss of the Norwegian steamer Sultan on one of the Miaotao Islands on the afternoon of June 3. There was a dense fog at the time, encountered soon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tea Steamer
The steamer Alfredi, 2354 tong, Captain Golding, of the Mogul Co., sailed from Foochow on Wednesday for Sydney and Melbourne, via Queensland ports, with a cargo of the new season's teas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Grounding of the Steamer Age
The Melbourne Court of Marine Inquiry on Tuesday investigated a charge of misconduct against James Redford master of the steamer Age, in connection with the grounding of that vessel in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fiji Schooner Ashore
The 54-ton schooner Fleetwing, owned by the natives of Nina Tabutabu, anchored off Waitabu, Island of Lakeba, Lau, on the 17th ultimo, with 49 Tongons on board. The party comprised six chiefs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foundering of a Schooner. Townsville
CAPTAIN TAYLOR, of the schooner Marshall S., has arrived here, and reports the loss of the schooner on July 22. The vessel left Maryborough on July 14, with a cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Steamer Capsized
News has reached Sydney of a Shipwreck by which upwards of 100 persons—Europeans, Malays, and Chinese—their lives. A steamer named the Sri Hong Ann five weeks ago left Singapore for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage
Captain Mentz, of the N.G.L.S. Weimar, from Bremen, reports that daring the passage, on July 9, in latitude 16 16 south, longitude 97.23 east, he passed a quantity of floating wreckage, amongst it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Ketch Aground
The ketch Alfred Fenning went aground on the Manning River bar on Saturday afternoon. There was a heavy sea running at the time…
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