A Turbine Steamer
It is understend that Union Steamship Company proposes to build a vessel on the turbine principle for the Australian-New zealand trade. The vessel will probably come…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1903
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 11
The Edith Wreck
In the steamer Titus, from the Solomon Islands, Captain Oertel and seven of the crew of the wrecked German barque Edith, arrived at Sydney on Sunday. Captain Oertel…
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The Minnesota, which is the largest vessel over built in America, was recently launched at the Eastern Shipbuilding Company's yards. New London, Connecticut. Measured on her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oakland Wreck. Prospects of Salvage. Sydney
Captain Joseph Weston, who purchased the wreck of the steamer Oakland for £40, has returned to Sydney, having been a fortnight in the vicinity of the wreck…
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Particulars of the new pilot steamer for Fremantle are as follow:—Length 50ft, beam 13ft 6in, mean draught 8ft 7in. The machinery is of the compound surface, condensing…
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News has been received in Sydney by Lioyd's agents that the ship reported ashore at one of the Marshall Islands, which it was thought might be the French…
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On arrival of the steamer Louis Roth in Newcastle from Sydney yesterday morning it was learned that a serious mishap had taken place on board. It was seen…
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LONDON, Monday.—A large river steamer has been burned at Nijui-Novgoroil a large city of Russia, at the confluence of the rivers Oka and…
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The steamer Selsdon, with 5400 tons of argentine maize, arrived at Sydney yesterday, after in passage of 53 days. The steamer's trip from Rosario was not without event. When…
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The P. and O. Company's new steamer [?] was recently launched at Beli[?]. The new steamer in [?] long, 67th 3 in broad, and 3ft 9in deep. She has a group [?] of about 7000…
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The steel schooner Tasman, bound from Newfoundland to Portugal with a cargo of salt fish, was recently found abandoned some 250 miles of Corunna, to which port she was…
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Restores, cabin steamer, at present in Sydney, is the latest addition to the Eastern Extension Company 's fleet. She is 377 feet long (340 feet on the water-line), 44 feet breadth…
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A vessel is reported to have come ashore at Whakaki Bench, ten miles from Walrda, Hawkes' Bay (New Zealand). A message from Wellington states that the vessel is thought…
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LONDON, Saturday.—H.M.S. torpedo boat No. 112 ran ashore at Milford Haven. She has two holes in her bull. A gunboat which was handy…
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In shipping circles anxiety is fell as to the safety of the schooner Austral, which is now 41 days out from Sydney to Cooktown. She left Sydney with a cargo of rocksalt as…
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Albatress, a new schooner, was recently launched in Mosclic Bay, Noumen. The vessel, which is about 72ft long and 20ft beam, will carry 60 tons: She was built at the yard of…
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LONDON, Friday.—The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has contracted with Messrs. Denny and Company, of Dumbarton, to build…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carrier Dove Wrecked
The Chinese Company’s steamer Australian beings news of the loss of the American fourmasted schooner Carrier Dove, of 634 tons register, which left Vancouver for Pugez…
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Gwydir Castle, barque, from New York in Port Adelaide, has gone ashore at Troubridge Point, near Edithburg, Advices from Adelaide state that the vessel was bumping heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Schooner. Perth
The schooner Laughing Wave, 170 tons register, sank alongside the Bunbury jetty on Saturday morning during a gale. On Thursday the vessel was riding to her…
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