New Coastal Steamer
The new steamer Narrooma was taken for her official trip down Sydney Harbour on Saturday afternoon, and gave satisfactory results. The Narrooma is called after the town of that…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
369 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 19
New Steamer Navua
Mr. James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, referring to the new steamer Navua, writes as follows:—"The vessel will have twin-screws. Special…
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Particulars have been received of a new twin-screw passenger and cargo steamer just ordered to be built at the Stettin Vulcan yard for the Hamburg-American line. She is to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How the Tulip Wrecked Holland
In these sober days, when the tulip, the queen of spring flowers, is to be bought and sold as cheaply as 3s per 100, it may seem hard to realise the time was when a…
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The Norwegian steamer Torgauten, which went ashore outside Hokitika (N.Z.) about three weeks ago, owing to a hawser getting foul of her propeller, has been successfully…
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LONDON, Monday.—A Russian squadron, on the 16th instant overhauled the British steamer Allanton, laden with coal, and bound south…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Wrecked. the R.M.S. Australia. Runs on Nepean Reef. Passengers and Crew Saved. Melbourne
Great consternation and alarm were created in Melbourne at an early hour this morning, when it became known that the popular and speedy P. and O. liner, the…
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There is a difference in the account given by the superintendent of the lifeboat crew of the rescue from the R.M.S. Australia from that furnished by the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—It is considered at Lloyd's that the losses of the Australia and the Petriana suggest that local aids to navigation are imperfect…
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The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's fine passenger steamer Newcastle has resumed her running in the service, after being docked for overhaul, and will arrive here this…
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The Marino Board mat to-day to consider the question of the wreck of the Australia. Reports from Captain Cole, Pilot Dennis, and Shipping-inspector…
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The Howard Smith new liner Bombala, 3530 tons, returned to Newcastle yesterday morning after a fast trip to Fremantle and back via Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Leaving…
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The steamer Moresby, of the Burns Philp line of Island mail steamers, met with a mishap when entering Newcastle Harbour yesterday, at about a quarter to…
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Recent operations in connection with the raising of a British submarine boat sunk by collision off Portsmouth have awakened public interest in this class of…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Prize Court wt Vladivostock has confiscated the British steamer Allanton, of 4250 tons, which was captured by the…
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The Marine-Court sat to-day to inquire into the circumstances in the wreck of the P. and O. steamer Australia at the Heads. Mr. J. A. Panton, P.M., presided, and had…
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The Island mail steamer Moresby, which went aground near Nobbys on Tuesday, was decked at Sydney on Wednesday for examination. A thorough survey of the vessel was…
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The steamer Waipara, built by Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne, has recently been out for her trail run, when satisfactory results were obtained…
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The inquiry into the wreck of the R.M.S. Australia, off Point Lonsdale, was resumed to-day by the Marine Court, consisting of Mr. J. A. Panton, S.M., and…
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The schooner Relic, a new vessel, which has just entered Upon her career in the inter-State trade, was driven ashore during a storm at Adventure Bay (Tas.) on Wednesday night…
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