A Steamer Founders
LONDON, Saturday.—During a gale on Lake Erie yesterday, an American steamer foundered, the crew, numbering fifteen, being drowned…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1902
181 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 10
Attempted Safe Robbery. Station Premises Wrecked
Early on Sunday morning an attempt was made to blow open and rob the safe at the Cardiff railway station. It appears that some of the residents about half a…
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The Altona, a steel cargo steamer, built by the Flensburg Shipbuilding Company for the German-Australian S.S. Company, Hamburg, left the Flensburg Fiord on October 14 last…
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LONDON, Thursday.—That Spanish steamer Neptune has foundered in a gale the Bay of Biscay. Of the passengers and crew 28 were drowned…
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It is reported that the Austrian steamer Zvir, a vessel of 3355 tons, bound from Java to Adelaide and Melbourne with a cargo of about 5000 tons of sugar, has…
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LONDON, Friday.—An explosion occurred yesterday at San Francisco on the American oil-tank steamer Progreso, eleven persons being killed…
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The inquiry was continued to-day, when William Vine, the chief steward, deposed that when the vessel struck the ports were all closed by the stewards at his…
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Captain Randich and crew (numbering 20). of the Austrian steamer Zvir, which on the 27th ult. was totally wrecked at Point Cloates, on the West Australian coast, have arrived at…
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After weary days of waiting tidings have at last been received of the missing boat from the wrecked steamer Elingamite, but beyond identifying the craft her…
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The Norwegian Life-Saving Society has been conducting a series of experiments with Captain Doenvig's now lifeboat, known as the "life-saving globe." It…
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The master of the schooner Eclipse, Captain Wheaton, has reported to the harbour master at Port Adelaide that on Sunday, when 12 miles south-south-east of Granite Island, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, December 6. the Elingamite Wreck
The inquiry into the loss of the steamer Elingamite at the Three Kings is proceeding, and will not be concluded for some days. There appears to be a conflict of…
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An interesting event took place at Messrs. Herbert and Rinker's boat sheds yesterday morning, when the hull of a fine looking cruising steamer was launched. As…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The German battleship Wittelsbach, of 12,000 tons, has gone ashore near Korsocr, Denmark, during a fog…
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This lifeboat is said to be the oldest lifeboat in England, having been built just one hundred years ago, viz., in 1802. It is now enjoying its well-earned rest in a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Early Newcastle. the Zone Disaster. Capsize of the Lifeboat. a Night of Terror
Maritime casualties have ever been a feature in the records of Newcastle. From the earliest days of the settlement, until the present time the history of the port is…
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The new steel barque Inverlochy, a hundred days out from Liverpool, bound here with a large general cargo, was wrecked last night on the Hereford Reef, 20 miles…
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The inquiry into the Elingamite wreck was continued to-day, when Henry Weatherill, a machinery inspector, deposed that the engines stopped within six seconds,…
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Captain Randich gives the following particulars in connection with the wreck recently of the steamer Zvir off the West Australian coast:—The Zvir left Java on November 22,…
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The Norwegian inventor of the new spherical life-saving boat Captain Doonvig, has given a demonstration of his globe's capabilities off Dover Harbour before the British…
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