Wreck of the County of Antrim Marine Board Inquiry
A MARNIE BOARD inquiry was commenced at Melbourne on Thursday into the stranding of the iron barque County of Antrim, on the Ninety Mile Beach, nor the Gippsland…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 18
A Schooner Stranded
The schooner Beatrice 99 tons, owned by Messrs. E. Triscker and W. Kerrison, of Port Adelaide, stranded late on Thursday night, near Port Lincoln, and is now full of water. The crew reached the…
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The steamer Duke of Buckingham returned to London Docks on the 4th inst. for repairs, having been in collision with a steamer, name unknown, at Holehaven, on the Thames. The Duke of…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The steamer City of Agra, owned by Messrs. D. Smith and Sons, has been lost off the Spanish port of Corcubion, near Cape…
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Some short time ago the harbour master at Mackay advised the Brisbane Marine Board authorities that a quantity of wreckage had been washed ashore some distance south of Redcliffe Island. Since then the…
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AT the Marine Board yesterday the harbour-master's monthly report was received, in which Captain Newton suggests that the wreck of the Colonist should be removed at…
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The South Australian Government steamer Governor Musgrave, which left the Semaphore on Monday evening, should have reached Cape Borda early on Tuesday morning, but up to the present has not…
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The U.S.S. Company's steamer Pukaki was towed into Wellington recently in a disabled condition. The vessel was on her way from Auckland to Wellington, and during a heavy gale the rudder had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. the Steamer Nineveh
THE steamer Nineveh is expected here to-morrow, and the passengers will be transferred to the quarantine station. Those who have been successfully vaccinated will be…
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The Victorian Marine Court concluded the inquiry on Wednesday into the stranding of the barque County Antrim on Ninety-mile Beach, on the 12th January, while bound from Maryport to Brisbane…
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During the passage of the barque Charles B. Kenny, from San Francisco, on January 2, in lat. 21deg 40min south, long, 162deg 58min west the vessel fell in with a two-masted schooner, which,…
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At Sydney on Thursday the steamers City of Melbourne and Mangana were submitted to auction. The former was knocked down at £410 to Mr. D. Sheehy, and the latter passed in, the reserve price not…
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The recommendation of the harbour-master to the local Marine Board to the effect that the wreckage of the steamer Colonist, which has now settled down on the…
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The small steamer Neptune, trading from Wellington to Blenheim, was wrecked when crossing the bar at the latter place on Sunday. All on board were saved…
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Sir,—In your issue of February 13th, I notice that the harbourmaster has recommended that the above wreckage should be removed. This…
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The schooner Orphenus, which has been trading for some time past on the West Australian coast has been wrecked at Abrolhes. She struck on a reef near Woody Island. No lives were lost…
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The Court of Marine Inquiry sat at Melbourne on Wednesday to investigate a charge of misconduct preferred against John Hyland, master of the barque County Autrim, in connection with the beaching of…
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The island steamer Kahu, recently arrived at Lyttelton from the Chatham Islands with a report that a lifebuoy had been picked up at the Chathams, marked "Evelyn, Liverpool." The buoy is supposed…
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Another wreck involving the loss of four lives has taken place on the rocks near Ushant, not far from where the Drummond Castle was lost. The ill-fated vessel was the steamer Belgique, bound from Bayonne…
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The three-masted schooner May a vessel of 237 tons register, has been sold, through Mr. John Williams, to Mr. Moses David, of Sydney, and will be employed in the intercolonial trade. She was built…
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