The Foreland Wrecked
The Foreland, s, with rice, from Rangoon to Bombay, has been lost on Table Island by striking a sunken rook. The vessel left Rangoon on the 5th ult, for Bombay, strack on an uncharted rook on…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901
264 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14
A Fearful Disaster. Burs[?]ing of a Dam. Several Towns Wrecked. 500 Persons Drowned
LONDON, Monday.—A vast dam burst at Pochahanks, Virginia (U.S.), in the middle of the night devastating everything in its track for twenty-five…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Oriertt Steam Navigation Co.'s liner Lisuanim, running" between Liverpool and Montreal, is ashore at Cape Ballard. Her…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The steamers Luistania, which went ashore at Caps Ballard, Newfoundland, is a hopeless wreck. Among the rougher element…
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On Papeele Reef, on May 24, the barque John Gamples, which with a cargo of 1600 tons of raw sugar, was bound from Peru to Auckland, was wrecked. Her water supply becoming short owing…
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LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Mohawk, with 900 American excursionists, struck Glen Island and sank in 20 minutes. There was a terrible…
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Information was also, gleaned yesterday of the wreek of the tug Alexander Berry, at Longpoint, which is situated about two miles from Shell Harbour, on the South…
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News was received in Sydney yesterday of the wreck at Richmond River of the tug Protector, and the loss of six lives. The vessel carried a crew of five hands and a…
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Walter Pierce, who is believed to be the sole survivor of a crew of five of the steam drogher Alexander Berry, which was wrecked at Long Point, near Shell Harbour,…
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The following telegram was received from Wollongong yesterday:—"The body discovered beach near Stanwell Park on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as that of Captain Marshall, of…
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The lighthouse-keeper at Tweed River Heads reported to Captain Edle yesterday that more small pieces of wreckage had been picked up at Fingal, where the…
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Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute Indigestion. I was…
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At the adjourned inquest held at Wollongong into the circumstances attending the death of John Pratt, who was drowned in the wreck of the drogher Alexander Berry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Steamer Waipori
The Waipori, the Union S.S. Co's new steamer, is now on her way to Newcastle. She will go from Newcastle to New Zealand, and Port Chambers will probably to her first port of call. She has on…
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The handwriting on the piece of board found on the ninety Mile Beach by Mr. Barton has been identified by Mrs. Ada Henderson, of Lygon-street, Carlton (Vic.), as that of her late husband,…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimate his been chartered to convey remounts to South Africa…
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At the fortnightly meeting of the Newcastle Borough Council last night the Mayor (Alderman W. J. Ellis) presided, and there were also present: Aldermen…
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Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute Indigestion. I was…
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Captain Henry, of the steamer Archer, upon arrival of that vessel in Sydney this morning, reported that while cruising among the Marshall Islands, the Archer…
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LONDON, Monday.—The Anchor Lane steamer Nutuidia is ashore on Brothers Island, in the Red Sea…
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