New Steamer
A new steamer, the Ripple, for the coast trade of New Zealand, purchased by Captain J. B. Allsop for the Canterbury Steamship Company of Christchurch, left [?]dithburg on…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 13
Steamer Disabled
The German steamer Prinz Sigismund, which arrived at Sydney on Wednesday, fell in with a small steamer in a disabled condition in the Philippines. The distressed vessel was the…
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LONDON Saturday.—The British armoured cruiser Donegal, 9800 tons, is ashore at Torbank, in the Gulf or Suez…
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The Deputy Postmaster-General received the following telegram from Cook-town yesterday:—"A boche-de-mer fisherman reports that a large steamer is…
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Advices have been received of an accident to the steamer Wakanui now homewards-bound from New Zealand via Cape Horn…
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The Norwegian steamer Thordis, which left Newcastle on Saturday afternoon for Manila, via Port Stephens, went on the rocks at the entrance to the latter port…
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Whatever hope there might have been of salving the steamer Thordis, which went on the rocks, off Port Stephens, on Sunday morning, has now to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Thordis Wreck. Vessel Breaking Up. Nelson's Bay
The steamer Thordis now receiving the full force of the heavy sea running. Seas are breaking right over the vessel. The bridge is breaking up, and the…
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The American mall steamer Schema brings news to the effect that George Wallace, third officer of the United States transport Usade, a native of Sydney, lost his life in an outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Year's Wrecks
The Blue Book recently issued by the Board of Trade, furnishing abstracts of the shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from July 1,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Elingamite Wreck
Though the local attempts to secure the gold bullion from the wreak of the Elingamite have failed, after much expense, there's a yarn going the rounds that two…
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Captain Voes, of the German four-masted barque Thekia, which arrived from Taital during last week, reports having teen a four-masted ship ashore at King George's Island…
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The directors of the Howard Smith Company, Limited, have considered it advisable to replace the Gabo and Buninyong by larger and faster steamers, and during the last few…
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Messrs, Barclay, Curle, and Co., Limited, Whiteinch, have launched the steel screw steamer Chanda, built to Lloyd's highest class and Board of Trade requirements for the…
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Captain Herriman, of the American mail steamer Sonoma, reports that when twenty miles south-west of the Farallon Islands, he passed within 100 feet of a partly submerges…
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The light-keeper at Archer Point reported this morning that a large steamer was aground on D. Reef, about seven mils South-east of Cooktown. She was…
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The steamer Kassala, which arrived at Adelaide last Thursday from London, has had a protracted voyage, due in part to the main steam pipe working unsatisfactorily shortly…
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While at the Campbell Islands recently (says the Christchurch "Press"), the steamer Rimu rendered assistance to the schooner Jessie Niccol, which had anchored outside…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Ysab[?]. Cooktown, [?]uday
The steamer Ysabel got off the [?], and arrived in port on Saturday afternoon. She sustained no damage, except slight injury to a rolling chock, and the point…
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The Norwegian barque Alma was wrecked at Malden Island on February 1, She was abandoned, and sank six hours later. The captain and crew have arrived at Auckland in the…
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