A Lifeboat Capsizes
LONDON, Thursday.—During a gale off Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday, the lifeboat capsized, and two of the crew were drowned…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907
265 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14
Wreck of the Elverland. Off the Three Kings. Auckland
The barquentine Elverland, 361 tons. Captain Savary, bound from the Thames to Sydney, foundered on Saturday last off the Three Kings Islands. All of the crew…
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The Pacific Mail Company's steamer City of Panama, of 1400 tons, has been wrecked near Pescadore, California…
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The barque Eden Holme, which left Hobart for Launceston on Friday last, to discharge part of her cargo from London, was wrecked on the Bell Rock, Hebe Reef, about…
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News has been received from the scene of the wreck of the Eden Holme, at Tamar Heads, that salvage operations commenced this morning. The vessel lies on a…
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The Three Kings—those little rock islands to the north of the slender tapering cape that ends New Zealand have been the scene of more than one shipping…
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The British ship Pengwern has been wrecked in the North Sea. Her crew, consisting of 24 men, were drowned…
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LONDON, Tuesday.— Bulgarian steamer, after having landed arms, supposed for the Macedonians, was wrecked near Sulina, on the Danube,…
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Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Coy.'s steamer Airlie, which left Bulimba wharf at half-past 10 o'clock to-night for Sydney, struck the rocks near Toomoul wharf as…
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Last week I told you how the Elverland foundered off the Three Kings, and how six of the crew were left on one of those desolate islets. The auxiliary schooner,…
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The new steamer Invertay (Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn and Co.), which is to leave New York this month with a cargo of general merchandise for…
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The coasting schooner Alma Doepel met with a mishap at the Bellinger River on Monday, and as a result had to be beached. The vessel, which was bound from…
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The South Australian Government has communicated with the P. and O. and the Orient Companies to the effect that work at the Outer Harbour (Adelaide) will be…
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The schooner Stanley, which left Sydney on December 23 for Noumea, met with very heavy weather during the passage, On December 29, when in lat. 29.30 S., and…
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Details have been received concerning the wreck of the German barque Nordwind at the Island of Skerries, while on a voyage from Gothenburg to Melbourne…
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The British cruiser Diadem, Captain H. W. Savory, rescued 104 passengers and the mails from the North German Lloyd steamer Seydlitz,…
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The steamer Seymour has just returned from the search for boats that have been missing since the recent hurricane. She brought in a quantity of wreckage,…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The British stea[?]er Clavering, bound from Middlesborough to Japan, has been wrecked at the mouth of the River…
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The steamer South Australian, which arrived at Sydney from Levuka on Saturday, experienced rough weather on the voyage. On the morning of January 24…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Sydney Letter. Rich Men's Leavings.—the Craze for Wreck Held Gold.—a Little Item on "Love."—the Amateur Gardener in Tears.—our Neighbour's Paper Is of the Things Which Are His.—the Plague and One of the Encouragements Given Rats. Sydney
So, according to the cabled information, Mr. Whiteley, the original universal provider, died worth £1,500,000. Only £1,500,000! Of course, to some people a…
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