A Lifeboat Service
For some time there has been an effort to establish a lifeboat services in Wellington. On New Year's Day three lives were lost from all overturned yacht at the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 15
Fire on a Steamer
Shortly after 7 o'clock on Sunday morning Messrs. Fenwick's passenger, river steamer, Sarah Hixon, which was moored alongside the public wharf, which runs between Lismore…
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The trial trip of the turbine steamer Victorian— the first of the type for the Atlantic trade—took place last month, and proved a great success. The Victorian was built by…
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The E. and A. Company's steamer Australian arrived at Sydney on Sunday from Japan with news of the loss of the British steamer Mars. The vessel went ashore at Atolya, off…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—During torpedo manoeuvres at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork, the torpedo-boat destroyer Syren, of 365 tons…
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The Adelaide S.S. Company's steamer Grantala, which arrived from the eastern States this morning, had a startling experience during the trip from Albany to…
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The five-masted steel schooner Kineo, 1867 tons net register, Captain Patten, has left Newport News, with about 3000 tons of coal for Manila. She is the first vessel of that type…
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News has been received from Nounea that the Norwegian ship Almedia, in ballast from Melbourne to Nehoue, to load a cargo of chrome ore for Europe, went ashore on the…
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A disastrous explosion occurred on board the Bucknall line steamer Matin on the passage to Capetown. The captain of the vessel reported on arrival that he left London on March…
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The Japanese Government has bought from the Neptune Salvage Company, of Stockholm, the salvage steamer Herakles, for use in raising the sunken Russian warships in the…
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After a passage of 49 days, the steamer African Monarch arrived at Fremantle front New York on the 3rd instant. She discharged the West Australian portion of her cargo and then…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Squall
A new steamer, the Squall, for Messrs. Stuart Bros., of Kaipara, New Zealand, arrived at Port Adelaide on Sunday afternoon. Built in Holland last year, she was purchased by Pile…
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Further particulars have been received concerning the wreck of the steamer Ashmount on the South African coast in April last, while bound from Adelaide to Liverpool with a cargo…
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The barquentine Neptune, well known in the New Zealand and Australian trade, has been totally wrecked on the North Spit at Kaipara. The vessel arrived in New…
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The New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday from the southern islands reports having on Sunday, the 7th instant picked up at…
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Captain Le Tollee, master of the wrecked French barque Anion, says that after the vessel had reached New Zealand waters, she encountered thick, rainy weather. Before they…
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Further particulars received respecting the wreck of the steamship Ashmount on the South African coast while on a voyage from Adelaide to Liverpool show that the vessel is…
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A collision took place just outside the entrance to Sydney Harbour at an early hour yesterday morning, between the ketch Jessie, inward bound from Jervis…
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Particulars have been received concerning the French steamer Pacifique, which arrived as Noumea after a protracted voyage from a cruise in the New Hebrides. It appears that…
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Several members of the crew of the Norwegian barque Almedia, which was wrecked on the Main Reef, New Caledonia, early this month was bound from Melbourne to New…
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