A New Coasting Steamer
CAPTAIN CREER, of the Clarence, Richmond, and Macleay Rivers Steam Navigation Company, who was sent home a few months ago to secure a new steamer for the northern…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890
43 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3
New Coasting Steamer
CAPTAIN CRENER, of the C. R. amd M. R. S. N. Company, who was sent home a few months ago to secure a new steamer for the northern coastal service, has written to the directors to…
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THE steamer Riverina, a vessel of 2081 tons, strack on the Ram Head during Sunday night, January 26, and became .a total wreak. All. hands were saved,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supposed Wreck of the Schooner Summer Rose, with all Hands
IT is feared that a more disastrous result than the loss of marine property has taken place in connection with the late bad weather along this coast. Our correspondent's messages point to…
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It ia feared that a more disastrous result than the toss of marina property has taken place in connection with the late bad weather along this coast. Our correspondent's message points to tho loss of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAPHIC. Wreck of a Queensland Mail Steamer. 166 Lives Lost. Sydney
The mail steamer Quetta, from Brisbane to London, struck a rock off Cooktown on Saturday morning, and sank within three minutes. 166 lives were lost…
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THE British-India mail steamer Quetta from Brisbane for London on 18th February struck on a rock near Mount Adolphus (which is not on the chart) last Friday night, 22 miles off Thursday Island. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Quetta. More Particulars. the Captain's Statement
CAPTAIN SANDERS states that he was on the bridge with the pilot when the vessel struck at 9 o'clock. He rushed to the end of the saloon-deck and told the chief officer to get…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Quetta. the Pilot's Statement
ABOUT 9.15 on Friday evening the Quetta was going at the ordinary speed a course round Albany Pass, the landmarks being on to the Pass. Midway between Midrock and Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAPHIC. Wreck at the Brunswick. All Hands Lost
A telegram from Ballina to the scationmaster here, to-day (Wednesday) slates,â "A horseman from the Brunswick, who arrived to-day, reports the schooner Agnes wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Quetta. the Miraculous Escape of Miss Lacy
MISS LACY, after her rescue,though extremely weak and very much sunburnt, was able to eat and sleep well, and has a vivid recollection of the terrible catastrophe resulting in…
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THIS schooner recently wrecked at the Brunswick, was in ballast, and bound to the Tweed for a cargo of timber. Her crew consisted of Patrick Power, master, 47 years of age;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sinking of the Steamer Magnet
YESTERDAY morning about 9 o'clock the stoamer Magnet on her usual trip to Lismore, in going in to ilgate's wharf at North Coraki, by some means had a hole knocked in her bow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Quetta. the Divers Report
SEVERAL of the survivors of the Quetta who have reached Brisbane speak highly of the conduct of the coloured crew. The following telegram was received by the B.T. and Q.A…
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RELATIVE to the position of the Quetta wreck, the divers report as follows:—The vessel is lying right over on her beam ends on the port side. The masts, funnels,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Quetta. Marine Board Enquiry
THE Brisbane Marine Board met with the object of inquiring into the cause of the wreek of the mail steamer Quetta, which occurred on the 28th February last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Tomki Ashore
IN crossing inwards on Monday last, in tow of the Protector. the Tomki got aground on a sandbank in tho inner break, in about the same place the Coraki was lying same time ago,…
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THE anxiety felt by all for the safety of this favorite steamship—which as reported in our last issue went ashore on the south beach at the Heads on Monday week—was apparent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Saturday, 10Th May, 1890 Wrecking at Ballina
IF there is any foundation for the reports current here during the week, that a quantity of the goods which, thrown overboard from the stranded steamer Tomki, floated…
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SIR,—I have anxiously watched for and carefully considered the various reports and criticisms, through the press and otherwise in connection with the stranding of the steamer Tomki. Amongst some of…
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