Steamer Renamed
The French steamer La Perouse, which left Sydney in March last for Shanghai, has been renamed Culmore, and will now fly the British flag. She is a steel screw steamer, of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 13
Steamer Aground. Brisbane
A telegram has been received from Thursday Island, stating that the steamer Queen Alexandra, bound south, is reported to have touched a roof off that port this…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has purchased the steamer Holywood…
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LONDON, Friday.—The P. and O. steamer Iris, which put into Zante, Ionian Islands, leaking, has sailed for Port Said…
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LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Charterhouse, voyaging from Hoihow to Hongkong, foundered off Hainan Head…
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Mr. W. J. Lyne, junr. of Newcastle, has received a message from Captain Hughie Roberts, master of the barque Earl Dunraven, sitting that the vessel had gone ashore on…
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The United States army transport Sheridan, commanded by Captain Peabody, went ashore on the dangerous reef off Barker's Point, Honolulu, early last month. She want on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Ardova Damaged
The steamer Ardova, which recently entered the interstate trade, on October 4 discharged a coal cargo at Port Pirie, South Australia, from New South Wales. After the cargo…
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The steamer St. Bride, which arrived at Sydney three days ago from Manila, after a passage of 28 days, will have to undergo repairs. It appears that the vessel, during a…
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The steamer Victoria, Huddart, Parker, and Company, arrived from Sydney this morning, after the most trying passage the vessel yet experienced while crossing…
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Advices from Cartagena, Spain, state that divers have recovered the locked treasure box of the Italian steamers Sirio, which was wrecked…
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Further particulars have been received of the loss of the four-masted barque Nivelle. The vessel was bound from Newcastle to Antotagasta with 3900 tons of coal, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Piracy in the East. German Steamer Robbed. London
Ten Chunchuses, who were passengers aboard the German steamer Anna, from Vladivostock to Chefoo, attacked and bound the captain and…
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The steamer Australian arrived yesterday from Hongkong. The doctors here report that there is one case of smallpox on board. The vessel has proceeded to…
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Messrs, Huddart, Parker and Company's steamer Courier has just undergone an extensive overhaul at Melbourne, every part of the ship having been thoroughly Inspected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on a Steamer. Incendiarism Suspected. Many Lives Lost. London
The steamer Hankow took fire at the wharf at Hongkong, and was burnt before daybreak. There were 2000 Chinese and seven…
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The Octopus, one of two steam dredges purchased by the Geelong (Victoria) Harbour Trust Commissioners from the Government of…
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On September 6 the large twin-screw passenger steamer Rohilla was launched at Belfaat. This steamer, which has been built to the order of the British-India Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Octopus Wreck. Details of the Disaster. London
It appears that the wreck of the Octopus, off the Tugela River, was due to the dredger springing a leak, the strongholds becoming flooded…
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Mr. W. T. Appleton, of Huddart, Parker, and Company, Limited, who is now in London, has just ordered a handsome twin-screw passenger and cargo steamer from Messrs…
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