The Crew of a Mail Steamer
PROBABLY few people are aware of what may strictly be described as the resident population of a big. mail steamer, and in these days of 8000 and.10,000 ton liners the census of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
31 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
The Loss of the. Steamer Warren Hastings. A Thrilling Story
THE following telegram received at the War Office from the General Officer Commanding, Mauritins, concerning the loss of the transport Warren Hastings, tells in its brief…
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The Chief Justice set as Judge Commissary of the Vice Admiralty Court, on March 16, and heard n case Gray v. the steamer Mystery. Dr. Sly and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Adderley
THE barque Adderley was wrecked on Stockton beach near Newcastle during Friday night's gale. She arrived off Hobby's on Friday afternoon, but was sign. Hed to stand off, as the bar was dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Avalanche Partly Wrecks the st. Bernard Monastery
AN avalanche of great volume swept down into the St. Bernard Pass on the night of February 28. Relief parties were dispatched to the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →North Coast Co.'s New Steamer
Last week Messrs. Foster and Minty, of Balmain, launched a nicely-modelled steel screw steamer, built to the order of the North Coast S. N. Co. The new…
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THE religious and impressive ceremony of launching and christening the new lifeboat, Victoria, recently built in London to the order of the Newcastle Marine Board, was performed on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the P.&O.steamer Aden
A.REUTER'S telegram states that the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Aden, whish was lost off the island of Socotra,in the Indian Ocean,while on her way from Hongkong to London,struck on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Largest Steamer Afloat
THE largest ship ever built in the world was launched at Stettin, Germany, on May 4. The steamer, named Kaiser Wilhelin der Grosse, has been built of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Experience of a Steamer
One of the best known, steamers under the Aberdeen line flag is the Aberdeen herself. She has made many voyages out to Sydney and homeward, but the one she has just completed to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Sydney Built Steamer for the North Coast S.N. Company. Trial Trip
THE Star says— The new steamer Euroka, built for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, went for her trial trip on Tuesday, 6th instant. The Euroka was designed by Mr. M. C. M'Allister, the…
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THE Blackpool Herald kindly lent to us by Mr.J. Burtinshaw, of the Telegraph Department, publishes the particulars of the stranding of the above, famous old ship during a great gale on June 16th…
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HUDDART, Parker, and Co.'s steamer Tasmania, which left Sydney on the 22nd July for New Zealand, became a total wreck at Table Cape on Thursday, the 29th, through…
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THE following is a complete list of those drowned in the wreck of the Tasmania, all but one being members of the crewâ Harry Bollard, second forecabin steward, single, whose mother…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arrival of Mr. G. W. Nicoli's New steamer Excelsior
THE S. M. Herald, says— "The Excelsior is a steamet-of 300 tuns, and as she came up into Darling Harbour on Wednesdrty and passed through'the bridge to her owner's wharf few…
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MR. G. W. NICOLL'S new steamer "Excelsior" arrived in Sydney last week, from Dundee, where she was built to order by Messrs. Gourlay Bros, and Co., who previously built a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Ethel
The well-known river steamer Ethel, recently purchased from Mr. J. C. Leigh by Mutant. Moorhead, Nesbitt, and M'Master for the river trade in connection with their Coraki bushiest,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Yolande
THE barquentine Yolande, from the Clarence River to New Zealand, was totally wrecked, on Friday last, on the west coast of Middle Island. She was being towed into Westport by a…
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THE following paragraph appeared in the Newcastle on Tyne Weekly Chronicle. "The Hon, C. A. Parson' Turbinia, which arrived in the Tyne on July 9, after her. highly satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wreck of the Aden. Terrible Experience Told by a Survivor
MR. F. GILLETT, one of the survivors of the wreck of the P. and O. steamer Aden, sends the London ''Times" a graphic and touching account of the, disaster. He. states that.the…
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