The Largest Steamer
A notable event in the annals of ship-building was the launch at Belfast on January 14th of the White Star liner Occanic. This leviathan steamer…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 14
The Orara Wreck
The Sydney Marine Board met yesterday afternoon and gave their decision in the matter of the wreck of the steamer Orara, which took place on February 16, at the…
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News has been received from Gladstone (Q.) that the well-known coasting schooner Moonta, 93 tons, was wrecked near Gatcombe Head early yesterday morning. The vessel…
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Another of the terrible hurricanes which periodically sweep over the northern coasts of Queensland has to be recorded, with its attendant loss of…
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A wire from the Bellinger River states that the schooner Violet, a new vessel, is ashore on the north spit at the entrance to the river but in no danger. THE FALCONHURST…
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LONDON, Monday.—The Allan line steamer Castilian, which was on her maiden trip, went badly ashore at Gannet Loch, in the Bay of Fundy,…
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The new steam collier Werfa owned by the Bellambi Coal Company, went ashore near Bellambi between South Bulli and Woonona jetties on Tuesday The steamer was only recently built for the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The new Milburn line steamer Kent, which is being built for the Australian trade, as successfully launched at…
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A sad story of the suicide of a lady passenger from the mailboat from Ostend to Dover was recently reported on the arrival of the Leopold II. at…
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At the Guildhall, Westminster, judgment was recently given in the Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances attending the total loss of the…
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The barquentine Cuthona, timber laden, bound for Sydney, went ashore on Kaipara bar on Wednesday owing of the wind dying away. The crew got a shore Safety. The Cuthona was a wooden barquentine of…
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Darius, s, from Sydney…
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Willyama, from Sydney. Federal, from Melbourne. Augusta, from Sydney. Macleay, from Sydney…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamer Gaspesia is reported to have been 52 days ice-bound in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She is drifting, and is short of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck—Trembling Above the Seething Abyss—Help Arrives at the Last Second—She Looks Back on Her Peril with Dread
It falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight of death in the…
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At the little social function held in the saloon of the steamer Mapourika after he successful launching at Greymouth, Mr. Mills, managing director of the Union Company, mentioned that he vessel had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shipping Dispute. the Steamer Boveric
A dispute as to who is entitled to the possession of the s.s. Boveric, and in connection with which a Supreme Court writ has been issued by the Steamship Boveric…
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LONDON, Saturday.—News has been received of a terrible disaster in the English Channel. The mail steamer Stella left Southampton on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. the Disaster at Sea. Scenes at the Wreck. Gallant Conduct
LONDON, Saturday.—When the wrecked steamer Stella left Southampton on Thursday, under command of Captain Reeks, the weather was calm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Regent Murray Wrecked Ashore on the Oyster Bank. a Total Wreck. the Vessel Breaking Up
Another vessel has to be added to the a[?]eady long list of casualties which have occurred at this port, and which unfortunately tend to destroy the reputation of…
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