Appearance of the Wreck
The scene along the beach yesterday afternoon was unique. For over a mile the beach in the vicinity of the wreck was strewn with wreckage. The first to come floating ashore…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 18
A Steamer Sunk in the Atlantic. Narrow Escape of a Crew
LONDON, Sunday.—The Cunard liner Etruria has rescued 23 members of the crew of the steamer Millfield as that vessel was on the point of sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fitzroy Wreck. Arrival of Passengers. Further Details. the Vessel to Be Sold
LATEST reports from the scene of the wrecked steamer Fitzroy show that the vessel is Bottling in the sand. The meats, funnel, and bridge are still intact, but a very small…
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LATEST particulars from the scene of the wreck show that the Fitzroy has not shifted her position, and still remains almost submerged. Captain Hunt,, of the steamer…
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Particulars are to hand of the 20,000 tons steamer recently launched by Messrs. Harland and Wolf. This vessel, whose gross tonnage is 12,300 tons, and displacement 23,000, is the thirty-sixth vessel…
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LATEST advices from the wreak show that the position of the Fitzroy remains unaltered. Mr. Fergus Hannell, of the Customs Department, who returned from the wreck yester…
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Brisbane advices state that the brig Pars, well known in connection with the South Sea Island labour traffic, had foundered in the river. The para is a wooden vessel of 252 tons, and was built at…
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A MESSAGE from Moruya yesterday [?]ated that the steamer Koonya, bound from Sydney to Moruya, grounded on the crossing at the entrance to the river, and re[?]fest. The…
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AMONG the friends of Mr. Sutherland, the young Newcastle (Eng ) gentleman who is on the Tyne trader, the Norwegian steamer Nordeap, which sailed from shields via Leith…
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On the 3rd ultimo Messrs. Russell and Co. had satisfactory steam trials with the steel screw steamer Parco of 2670 tons. The owners are the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Calamity at Sea the Cleveland Wrecked. Twenty-two Persons Drowned
LONDON, Thursday.—The American steamer Cleveland has been wrecked in Barclay Sound. Twenty-two of those on board were drowned. The…
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CAPTAIN BUTCHER, of the steamer Cintro, in an interview with a press representative at Cairns (Q), stated that he was anxious to make known that on the passage up, between…
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Advices by the English mail notify that on the 3rd November Messrs. Russell and Co. Port Glasgow, had satisfactory steam trials with the steel steamer Par[?]. 2670 tons gross. The owners are the…
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LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Prince Albert de Belgique came into collision yesterday with the steamer Larnaca, at Antwerp…
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NEWS has just been received from Southport that a small fishing steamer named the Mystery capsized on the bar about 11.30 this morning, while returning from a fishing…
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THE Sydney Marine Board hold a preliminary inquiry yesterday afternoon into the cause of the wre[?]k of the A U S.N. Company's steamer Fitzroy, which went ashore near…
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WELLINGTON, Monday.—The Upolu arrived to-day, bringing news which reached Papeete, Tahiti, on the (5th instant, of the wreck of the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kameruka Wreck.—liability for Cargo
A meeting of shippers by the ill-fated Kameruka Was held in the Lyceum Hall, Bege, on Monday afternoon, including representatives from the various district co-operative companies. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Disabled. the Allinga in Trouble
A WIRE received from Tasking Point last night stated that the Adelaide S. S. Company's steamer was returning to Sydney, having broken one propellor shaft. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The John M'leod Wrecked
The Nova Scotiau ship John M'Leod, Captain Stuart, from Ilo Ilo, via Delaware Breakwater, for Halifax (N.S.) with a cargo of sugar, struck on Black Rock, one of the Sister Shoals, near Sambro,…
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