New Austrian Steamer
A finely-modelled triple-screw steamer, named Baren Gautsch, was launched at Dundee very recently for the Austrian-Lloyd, Trieste. The vessel had been specially…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 14
Fire on a Steamer
A telegram has been received from Bunbury (W.A.), stating that a fire broke out in the bunkers of the steamer Clan Ronald on Wednesday night. The vessel was…
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The German-Australian liner Lacisz, of 5167 tons, foundered while on the Voyage from Sydney to Hamburg. She struck a rock in the Red Sea,…
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The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Mareeba mot the full force of the recent gale on the Queensland coast, and during the storm she had a trying time of it. Captain Marchie…
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A telegram has been received from Yorktown, York Peninsular, stating that the ketch Sir William Lawson stranded at Port Mooroowie on Friday night when making in…
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During a severe hurricane at Suva on Monday the British-India steamer Sangola, which was at anchor near the coolie station, was driven ashore. The Sangola arrived at Suva…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamer Tintenbar, built for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, has been launched at Ardrossan, Scotland, and…
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The Rebecca a well-known Sydney ketch, has been wrecked at the Bismarck Archipelago. The Rebecca had been purchased by a syndicate at the islands, and re-named the…
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The Koromike, a new vessel of the turret type, built to the order of the Union Company by Messrs. W. Doxford and Sons, Sunderland, has arrived at Wellington. The…
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The steamer Drumgeith, which arrived at Semaphore from Sydney on Friday afternoon, met with a serious accident to her propeller during the passage from Melbourne,…
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A telegram was received from Cooktown to-day stating that the Government steamer Melbidir arrived last night from the north. The superintendent of Pipon…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The P. and O. Company's steamer Salsette was launched at Greenock to-day…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The barque St. Mary's Bay, which left Newcastle, N.S.W. on February 11, for Taltal, Chill, has been totally lost off Taltal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Naval Disaster. Wreck of the Tiger. London
Details of the disaster which occurred on Thursday during the manoeuvres of the Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Attacked. Two Passengers Killed. London
Insurgent Arabs on the banks of the Tigris subjected the British steamer Blosselynch to heavy rifle fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Bega. Women's Heroic Behaviour. Sydney
Intelligence was received to-day that the steamer Peterborough had left Bermagul at noon to-day, with a portion of the passengers and the crew of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pen-notes and Pencillings Wanted, an Up-to-date Lifeboat
The want exists both on shore and sea—on the beach from which the lifeboat, that goes out is operated, and on the ship's deck where that boat to escape by…
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Captain Neale, of the Melbourne Company's steamer Perth, which arrived at Sydney to-day via Tasmanian ports, reported that after leaving Devonport for…
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News has been received from Noumea that the captain and crow of 17 of the Dutch ship Emanuel (late Hugo Mole[?]nar), arrived there on Friday night by automobile from…
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News has been received of the week of the steamer Newark Castle of the coast of Zululand. It is said that the vessel struck an uncharted rock at half-past six one…
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