Steamship Wrecked
The steamer Virginia, which stranded in a fog on Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatterass, was on her way front Daiquidi, Cuba, to Baltimore. Six of the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900
191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 10
The Steamer Coraki
Coraki (North Coast S.N. Company's steamer), which was successfully floated after having been aground near the Manning River breakwater for several days, has been taken into Mort's Dock and…
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The officers of the burnt steamer Za[?]ate, of London, arrived at Plymouth from Gibraltar by the P. and O. teamer Maita. The Zarate, when three…
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Messrs Gibbs, Bright, and Co. have been advised that the new steamer Bes Dara has been taken up by the Angle-Australasian line on time charter, and is expected to leave London shortly for Adelaide,…
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The Brisbane Telegraph Department received the following wire from Inskip Point yesterday:—"The fore-and-aft schooner Confidence, which…
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A telegram from Queenscliff yesterday reported that the steamer Brisbane, whilst inward bound from Kaipara (N.Z.), went aground between Nos. 2 and 14 buoys in the West Channel. T evesel signalled…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The Oratava, with 1200 troops on board for South Africa, in a fog collided with and sank the German steamer Bremen off…
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The Right Hon. Lord Chelmsford, G.C.B., presided at the sixty-first annual meeting of this society, held at the Hotel Metropole, London, recently…
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One vessel which came to grief in the [?]ale was the well-known coasting schooner St[?]anley, engaged in the timber trade between Cape Hawke and Sydney. The…
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The Manchester and Salford S.S. Coy's steamer Palatinia arrived here yesterday from Beira via Batavia after an uneventful and fine weather passage of an days. The…
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To-day marks the anniversary of the wreck of the steamer Cawarra, which occurred on the dreaded Oyster Bank on Thursday, July 12th, 1866. At daylight on…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Viper, which was under the Turbine system, steams 43 miles an hour…
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Between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning a steamer inward bound grounded on the inside of the north breakwater while entering the port. The vessel remained fast…
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Mr. F. Hannell writes:—I noticed in last Thursday's paper it was the anniversary of the wreck of the Cawarra, which occurred on Thursday, 12th July, 1866. I wish…
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The first six-master and largest schooner in the world is being built at Camden, Me., for a Taunton, Mass, firm. The vessel is built of wood, and will be ready to be launched on the first day of August…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The steamer Anerley, which has arrived at Natal from Melbourne, lost 201 horses on the passage…
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At the Sydney Water P[?]ice Summon Court yesterday Inspector Newton, of the Department Navigation, applied to Mr. Isaacs, S.M., for an order directing the seizure and removal of the schooner…
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News was received last night from Port Stephens stating that the schooner Empress of India had gone ashore there, and that three of the crew had been drowned…
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Later particulars of the hurricane which swept over the south-western corner or West Australia on Sunday show that of the ships driven ashore in Hamelin…
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At the inquest held at Cape Hawke on the bodies of the men drowned when the schooner Empress of India went ashore, the jury expressed…
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