An Unknown Wreck. Fremantle
Intelligence has been received from the North-west that Captain Halbard, master of the Dutch schooner Concorda, reports signs of a vessel having beep…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14
Last Night Ashore
The vicinity of the United States wharf at Miller's Point presented a busy scene to-night from about 11 o'clock until an early hour this morning, when the last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. Steamer Suva and Tug Hero. Sydney
A collision occurred at sea curly this morning between the passenger steamer Suva, of the A.U.S.N. line, and Messrs. J. Fenwick and Coy.'s tug Hero. As a…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The steamer Dunearn, while bound from Karatsu to Singapore, capsized in a typhoon off the Coto Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mareeba Wreck
At their auction rooms, Watt-street, on Saturday, Messrs. Lang. Wood, and Co. submitted to auction the wreck of the steamer Mareeba as the lies on the Stockton beach…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Ketch. Cooktown
Captain Kunsen and the crew of the ketch Jecra arrived by the s.s. Moresby last night. Captain Kunsen reports the Jeera went down off Orokola, during a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of a Steamer. London
According to Rio de Janeiro newspapers. the British steamer Spartan Prince. bound from New York to Liverpool, was sunk in collision with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Oldest Steamer
At the result of a controversy in London as to which is the oldest steamer after; it is stated that "the honour belongs to the wooden paddle steamer Kangaroo, built on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →July Wrecks
The number of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Hoard of Trade during the month of July, 1908, ad the number of lives lost, are as follow:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable Ship Ashore
The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's cable ship Patrol, according to news by the Eastern mall, has gone ashore near the Straits of Pulau Laut. No details are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barque and Steamer Collide
Further particulars have come to hand respecting, the collision between the fourmasted barque Tasmania, from Hamburg with a cargo of coke bound to Wallaroo,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Ketch. Adelaide
On Wednesday afternoon a small dingey with a man and youth on board made its appearance at The Grange. The couple were making for the shore. They had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss by the Bega Wreck. Sydney
In the District Court to-day, Judge Rogers summed up in the case of Braitling v. the Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Company, in which £400 was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Interstate Steamer
By the R.M.S. Orontes, from London, Mr. D. B. Fullarton, M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. Propty, Limited, returned to Melbourne. Mr. Fullarton went to England to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Aeon Wrecked. on Christmas Island. All Hands Saved
During Saturday forenoon the Newcastle office of the Howard Smith Company, agents for the Australian mail line, was advised that the steamer Aeon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Ashore. Melbourne
The steamer Warrentina, a small vessel engaged in trade between Melbourne one Tasmanian ports, is reported to have gone ashore at Whals Head on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Whangape Adrift. Sydney
Information was received in Sydney thin morning that the Union Company's steamer Whangape bad broken her tail shaft near Kadavu, and was adrift…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Oil Steamer
A large petroleum steamer, named Hyrcanta was recently launched on the Tyne. She has been built to the order of Mr. A. O. Goukas[?] and is capable of carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Disabled Steamer
There is a good deal of speculation as regards the apparently disabled steamer which the steamer Chatham saw on Thursday night of last week, as reported in this column on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck Off Alaska. Great Loss of Life. London
The barque Star of Bengal has been wrecked off the coast of Alaska. Nine whites and 101 Chinese and Japanese were drowned…
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