Wreck of a Steamer. Suspicious Cargo
LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Afghanistan has gone ashore on the coast of Sicily. She purported to be laden with coal for Jiboutil, the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901
264 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14
Wrecks in the Bay of Fundy
The Dominion Government has appointed a Marise Commission to investigate the loss of the passenger steamer City of Monticello, which foundered in the Bay of Fundy with a loss of 86 lives…
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Advices from Panama state that another insurrection has taken place in the Colombian Republic during which the Government seized the British steamer Tabogo, and after placing 100 soldiers on…
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News was received yesterday that the American barque Snow and Burgess met with an accident at Delagoa Bay. While negotiating the harbour in charge of a pilot the vessel grounded on one of the…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The French mail steamer Russia, trading between Oran (Algeria) and Marseilles, is a total wreck on the Faraman Rocks,…
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The new pilot steamer Victoria made a trial trip in Hobson's Bay on Saturday afternoon, doing a satisfactory measured mile in the teeth of a south-west gale and rough seas. The steamer, which was…
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The great English firm of Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. has built upon Lake Bolkal, according to a writer in "Scribner's Magazine," one of the most remarkable…
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LONDON, Friday.—The warship Sybille went ashore at Saldanha Bay, Cape Colony. The crew were saved…
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LONDON, Friday.—Further details of the disaster to H.M.S. Sybille at Saldanha Bay, 70 miles north-west of Capetown, state that the cruiser was…
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The ship Bothwell, bound from Newcastle (N.S.W.) for Callao, coal-laden, has gone ashore 96 miles south of Callao. Part of the crew has landed at Cerro Azul. The Bothwell is a fine steel ship of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Rhodesia Labour Trouble. Fight on a Steamer. Beira, January 4
The Hertzog this arrived with 136 Abyssinians and Somalis for the miners of Rhodesia. The boys allege that the firemen of the ship told them they…
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News has been received of the total loss of the ship Glen Park, the crew of which, 26 in number arrived at Port Victoria on Friday night, having been picked up by barque Elda, and put ashore…
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The Tokyo Marine Court has given a decision in the case of Captain Thom, of the N.Y. steamer Australian liner Futami Maru, which became a total wreck on Mindoro Island, near Manila, on…
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The coasting schooner May Byrnes, which left her on Friday night for Sydney was totally wrecked on Saturday night, being blown ashore at Middle Head. Three of the…
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Additional particulars concerning the wreck of the schooner May Byrnes show that when nearing Sydney Heads on Saturday night the wind shifted to the southward, and when the light at South…
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News was received last night from Adelaide stating that the second officer and part of the crew of the barque Wynford, 1807 tons arrived at Port German on Saturday evening, and reported that the vessel…
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Later particulars to hand regarding the wreck of the Glen Park in Speucer's Gulf on Friday morning show that all went well until Friday morning. The captain took bookings about 8 o'clock that…
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News was received by cable yesterday that the German steamer Sommerfeld had gone ashore at Cuxhaven, which is about 70 miles from Hamburg, on the Elbe. The Sommerfeld is a German steamer…
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The crew of the wrecked barque Glen Park have arrived at Adelaide. The men state that the ship struck on what appeared to be a ledge of rock, and immediately [?] led over, rendering it necessary…
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Before Mr. J. E. Ellis, M.P., and a bench of magistrates at Scarborough (Eng.), Captain William Mosey, Lloyd's Scarborough agent, and his clerk, Harry Goodricke,…
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