30-Knot Turbine Steamer
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Atlantic Shipping Company proposes to build turbine steamers with a speed of 30 knots, and which will do the journey…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901
264 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
New Inter-state Steamer
It is reported that the Melbourne Steamship Company has contracted with the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Dundee, for the construction of a high-class passenger steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Barque Wrecked. the Lizzie Bell Ashore. Eleven Lives Lost. Auckland
A disastrous wreck, attended by great loss of life, has occurred on the New Zealand coast to a vessel that was bound to Newcastle to load a coal…
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LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Schenfelse, from Calcutta, has been quarantined at New York, as a stoker was found suffering from plague…
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News of the wreck of the New Zealand barque Alexa has reached Noumea. The vessel went ashore at Surprise Island, one of the Chesterfiled Group. The passengers and crew, nine in all, were saved,…
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On Saturday, at Wellington, during his evidence at the inquest the master of the wrecked barque Lizzie Bed stated that he was keeping a strick watch for Cape Farewell light, when the ship…
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The cargo steamer Dunbar is ablaze at Port Elizabeth, and news to hand shows that the fire is a serious one. The Dunbar cleared from Melbourne on April 12 with a part cargo of wheat, flour, and…
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A very disastrous wreck, attended by much loss of life, has taken place off the South Taranaki Bight. The Lizzie Bell was a barque, that had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Falkland
The four-masted barque Falkland, which leaded here last year for San Francisco, has been totally wrecked at Scilly, on June 22, while homeward bound from Tacoma. The St. Agnes, lifeboat:…
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The Mararoa, Union S S. Co.'s s, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday from New Zealand ports, brought information to the effect that, in connection with the wreck of the Lizzie Bell at Oeo River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of the Viper. Struck and Foundered. All Saved
LONDON, Monday.—The destroyer Viper, the most powerful and swift of her class, while manoeuvring at a speed of 20 knots, entered a fog and…
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While crossing the Manning River bar at 4.20 yesterday afternoon the steamer Electra went aground. This is another addition to the long list of proofs of the treacherous nature of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lizzie Bell Wreck. Master's Certificate Suspended
Further particulars to hand regarding the wreck of the barque Lizzie Bell on the New Zealand coast show that the wreck was attended by sensational features. At the…
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In a leaky condition the-schooner Australia put into Nelson's Bay on Wednesday. The Australia went aground on the North Spit, Camden Haven, on Saturday,…
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Captain Rees, the master of the barque Lizzie Bell, bound from Wellington to Newcastle, wrecked near New Plymouth, gave his evidence on…
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News has reached Noumea that the French bq Nosre Dame de la Garce, bound from Havre to Tehlo, in ballast, to load nickel ore, is stranded on the main reef, that the crew have been saved, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Navigable Balloon. Wrecked by a Wind Gust
LONDON, Thursday.—While sailing from St. Cloud, a suburb of Paris, to the Eiffel Tower, Paris, a gust of wind struck M. Santos Dumont's…
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From Cooktown has been received the news that the London Missionary Society's schooner Olive Branch missed stays when leaving Kwato Island (on the extreme coast of New Guinea), the…
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The remains of a vessel bearing the name Lady Lina, apparently of 400 or 500 tons, have been discovered near the Tamboon River, in the vicinity of Cape Everard, by…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The Ivanti (?), bound for Adelaide from a Baltic port with a cargo of timber, is aground at Drogden. She is full of water…
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