Mail Steamer Alameda. Aground at San Francisco. London
The mail steamer Alameda went ashore when leaving San Francisco for Honolulu. The passengers were taken off the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 15
Wreck of the Chatham. Suez Canal Still Blocked
LONDON, Sunday.-Lloyd's agent telegraphs that it will be necessary to re-explode the stern of the steamer Cliatham…
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Advices from New Zealand state that the coastal steamer Rose Casey has been wrecked on the Riverton bar. The rose Casey was an old steamer built by Messrs. Fraser…
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The Union Company's steamer Mararoa was severely handled by the elements during the passage from Sydney to Wellington. The vessel sailed from Sydney at 6 p.m. on…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The steamer Cantabria, plying among the Philippines, foundered during the recent typhoon, 97 of the officers and crew…
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Mesrs Huddart, Parker and Co. Ltd have been advised that the new steamer Rivernia specially designed and built for the interstate passenger and cargo trade…
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As the steamer Louis Roth was preparing to leave Port Adelaide for South Africa on Wednesday, she was placed under arrest by sheriff, Mr. O. H. Schomburg. The action…
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On August 21, Messrs. David J. Dunlop and Co. launched at Port Glasgow a steel twinscrew steamer for the Northern Steamship Company, Limited, of Auckland, New…
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The new twin-screw salvage steamer Wrecker, belonging to the East Coast Salvage Company (Limited), of Leith, ran her trial trip in the Forth, recently. On getting…
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The Union Company advises that owing to the delay in the building of the new island steamer Atua, it is not anticipated that she will be ready to leave England for New…
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The Wellington Marine Department has been advised that about August 20 a piece of teak timber, bearing the name Imperator Alexander II., was washed ashore at Okawa…
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The three-masted schooner Ururoa arrived at Wanganu from Newcastle recently, and had a trying experience. The vessel was off the Wanganui bar a week, but owing to the…
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"What is considered a remarkably quirk voyage from New York to Hongkong, and probably a record passage for a cargo steamer between the two ports, was finished on…
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News has been received of the loss of the Sydney-built schooner Manantha, Captain Strassburg. The vessel, which was owned by Mr. C. Mouton, of Herbertshohe, New…
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LONDON, Monday.—The barque Alliance, which sailed from Newcastle, New South Wales, on the 27th August, with 1500 tons of coal, has gone…
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On September 14, the Oberhausen was launched by San, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Limited from their Neptuen Shipyard, Newcastle-on-Tyne. This vessel is…
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Advices received by the last English mail state that on September 14 there was launched at Belfast by Messrs. Workman, Clark, and Co., Limited, a handsomely…
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The directors of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co., have decided to have a new twin-screw steamer constructed for their Newcastle-Sydney service…
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An inquiry into the wreck of the County of Ayr was hold at Dunedin on Wednesday by a magistrate and two assessors. Their judgment was that the ship was lost through…
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The new Sydney ferry steamer, Binagarra, ran her trial speed on Thursday, and averaged upwards of fourteen knots. The vessel is constructed of steel, and is of the…
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