Swallows In[?]ade a Steamer
A rather curious episode in natural history occurred the other day on board the French steamboat Abd-el.Kader during the passage from Marseilles to Algiers. Just as…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890
43 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
The Steamer Tomki
THE Tomki having received a thorough overhaul was floated out of Mort's dock on Saturday last. Besides being strengthened throughout and having all damage to the hall made good,…
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THE passenger steamer Magnet has again taken up her regular trips in the river trade. The previous reports we have given of her are fully borne out. A great improvement has…
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BY the steamer Dorunda there arrived at Plymouth on May 18 (says a London exchange) six passengers and nine of the the crew of the steamer Quetta. They…
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ON Monday afternoon last this favorite vessel made her re-appearance here. She has been thoroughly overhauled, and all damage done by the stranding at the Heads has been made good…
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THE s.s. Kallatina, built to the order of the Clarence, Richmond, and Macleay Rivers Steam Navigation Company, Limited, of Sydney, has been launched by Messrs. D. J. Dunlop and Co., Port Glasgow. This…
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THE steamer Kallatina, built to the order of the C.R. and M.R.S.N. Co., and now launched at Glasgow, has been specially designed for passenger and cargo service between Sydney…
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THE coming ocean steamer will be over a quarter of a mile in length—one learns these particulars from an American paper. She will be driven by electricity,…
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SOME time ago Mr. William T. Yeager, timber merchant of Oakland, Bent to Scotland for the purpose of ordering a steel screw steamer of the best class for the Sydney and Richmond River…
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SOME time ago Mr. William T. Yeager, timber merchant of Pyrmont, sent to Scotland for the purpose of ordering a steel screw steamer of the best class for the Sydney and Richmond…
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A WELL-KNOWN coasting steamer, the Fernmount, lately reported ashore and in a dangerous position at the Bellinger River, returned to Sydney on the 11th…
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The strike difficulty is rapidly assuming alarming proportions, 3000 men are already out on strike. A large number of colonial and…
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ON Wednesday afternoon last we received the following telegram from Mr. B. B. Nicoll, M.L.A. :—"I despatched the steamer Alice for…
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THE Glasgow Weekly Times states that the schooner Halcyon arrived at Port Townsend, Washington, from Fiji. She curried as passenger a seaman named H…
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THE first steam lifeboat has been built at Blackwall, and had a three hours' trial trip on July 24 on the Thames (says the London Standard). The new…
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THIS vessel—the latest addition to our fleet of ocean steamers, and of which we gave a full description a few weeks ago—made her maiden trip to the river yesterday. As she…
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THIS boat, in which Captain Jorgensen and his first officer were 11 months coming out from London to Australia, ia a remarkable craft, and the following particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TELEGRAPHIC. Wreck of a Large Steamer near the Tweed River. Cudgen
The steamer Alberta was wrecked on Cudgen Reef, six miles from Point Danger, on Sunday night.She waa bound from Hongkong to Melbourne with a cargo of 2000 tons of coals…
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THE-Alberta was a steel screw steamer of 2214 tons, built at Newcastle on Tyne in 1888, and owned by the Alberta Steamship Co. of Liverpool. Her dimensions being…
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CAPTAIN TULLOCH, of the Tweed, reports having passed close to the wrecked vessel on Thursday afternoon last. He describes her as lying pretty well upright on the rock farthest out from…
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