Steamer Burrawong Ashore. Taree
The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Burrawong, when crossing in at the Manning River entrance yesterday afternoon, struck the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909
282 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 15
Schooner Ashore. Adelaide
A telegram received to-night from Port Victoria states that the schooner Monard drifted ashore at 12 a.m., and was lying broadside on to the sea. The vessel is…
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The hearing was commenced to-day, before Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury, of an action in which Patrick Murray sought to recover £1000 from the…
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A somewhat uncommon type of steamer was launched on February 22nd from the Neptune Works of Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson (Limited) Newcastle-on-Tyne…
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The steamer Grace Darling owned by Messrs. J. Darling and Son. narrowly escaped sinking in the Port Adelaide river this morning…
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Colonel Burns (Burns, Philp, and Co.) is a passenger to Sydney by the R.M.S. Marmora. When colonel Burns left England one steamer of 4500 tons, for the Java and…
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The Union Company's steamer Maori had an unusually tough trip from Wellington to Auckland last week, and arrived three hours late. A terrific sea struck…
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Some wreckage has been picked up on Putty Beach, which spot is on the northern side of the entrance to Broken Bay, and not far distant from the scene of the…
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A collision occurred in the Channel on Friday between the R.M.S. Ortona and a small steamer, the Tryst, resulting in the latter vessel being…
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"I never made such a trip. It rained a deluge on and for three weeks, with thick weather," says Captain Weatherill, the commander of Burns, Philp, and Co.'s steamer…
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The new schooner Moewe, built to the order of Consul Rudolph Wahlen, of Bismarck Archipelago, and intended for the copra trade of the islands, was launched at Sydney on…
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The three-masted auxiliary scow Zingara, which left Auckland on February 21 for Christmas Island, via Niue, to attempt the salvage of the wrecked steamer Aeon, arrived…
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The decision in an action brought in Glasgow Sheriff Court by Messrs. Mechan and Sons, Whiteinch, against the North-eastern Railway Company for £61 10s, being the price…
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The loss is reported of the old sailing ship Auckland, which for several years was a favourite passenger clipper on the New Zealand run…
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The Court of Appeal at Wellington heard recently the case of the Union Steamship Company v. Wickes, Limited, a question of law arising out of an action removed by the…
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The Maoriland Steamship Company's steamer. Lauderdale, which was being towed out of the Auckland Dock recently by the Auckland Harbour Board's new tugboat. Te…
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The body of a man dressed in a Woman's ball costume, and manacled, has been washed ashore at Penzance, Cornwall…
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Owing to a dense fog which enveloped the waters of Lake Macquarie yesterday morning, the passenger steamer Phoenix, in the, command of Captain Campbell, and…
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The Melbourne S.S. Company's steamer Perth broken down shortly after leaving Sydney for Newcastle on Saturday. The vessel cleared the Heads at 12.40 p.m., and an hour…
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LONDON, Monday.—The steamer shores sank oft Whitefish Point, Lake Superior. Twenty-one of the passengers and crew were drowned…
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