Explosion on a Steamer. Sydney
The steamer Coolgardie, which left Sydney this afternoon, for Melbourne, at 5 o'clock, returned to port about 11 o'clock to-night…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
369 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 19
Steamer Illaroo
The Wallarah Coal Company's steamer Illaroo has been chartered to run two voyages to Fiji. She left on Wednesday night for Levuka, with a general cargo, and on…
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News has been received from Victoria, B.C., stating that the four-masted schooner Kailau has been found bottom up off Kyuquot, 140 miles north-west of Cape Flattery. There…
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Captain Little, of the new steamer Bombala, which arrived here late on Thursday night, reports having made a splendid run from Townsville to Brisbane. The Bombala left…
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Apparently the twelfth of the month is an unlucky day for the Aramac, as about that time in March she was almost wrecked on the Breaksea Spit when rounding…
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The steamer Workfield, a vessel of 4252 tons, which came to Sydney from Ocean Island, via Newcastle, with a cargo of phosphates, and took in an original cargo…
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The new steamer Geelong left London on the 27th instant on her maiden voyage to Australia The Geelong is a twin-screw steamer, and was recently built by Messrs. William…
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On Sunday the steamer Coolgardie went aground in the South Channel at Hobson's Bay. The vessel arrived from Sydney on Saturday morning and was continuing her trip to…
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Mr. Peter Callen, of Stockton, has just completed building a little craft named the Rambler for Captain Noste and Mr. J. Lewis (late mate) of the s.s. Fearless. They are going…
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The ketch Ripple, which has been searching along the Queensland coast for traces of a party of three young men who were supposed to have been lost in the cutter Eagle last…
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The scow Norah and the schooner Clio were in collision off Whangarel Heads recently, the schooner receiving the damage. The Clio commanded by Captain Nelson, was travelling…
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Fifty men of the crew of the wrecked Pacific mail steamer Colon, which struck on Reme[?]los Reef, off the Salvaderan coast, on the morning of April 12th, and was beached at Acajutla…
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The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross, which arrived at Norfolk Island on Monday, reported that the steamer Ysabel, of the Burns, Philp line, had been towed into the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The steamer Navau, built for the Union Steamship Company, was launched at Glasgow yesterday…
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Considerable surprise was expressed in shipping circles at the announcement in yesterday's issue that the pilot steamer Ajax was to relieve the Captain Cook at Sydney while the latter…
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With reference to the proposed purchase, by a Sydney firm, of the steamer Elamang, now at Brisbane, it is intended to send, the vessel to Shanghai, where she will be either broken…
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By the French mail from New Caledonia an account been received of the wreck an French ship Ville de Saint Nazaire. It appears that the vessel left Canals. New…
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The new steamer Awaroa, build for the Northern Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand, was launched yesterday from the yard of Messrs. Morrison and Sinclair, Balmain. The new…
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Captain J. Rattey, of the Howard Smith steamer Chillagoe, which arrived here from Melbourne yesterday afternoon, reports that he left Melbourne at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, and…
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AUCKLAND, Saturday.—The steamer Tavinui reports that the steamer Uplou is overdue at Flint Island. The Uplou had a breakdown of her…
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