A Steamer Adrift. Crosses the Newcastle Bar Safely
THE Pinafore, steam launch of 13 tons, owned by Mr. Peter Callen, on Wednesday night was left moored near Callen's Slip at Stockton, and during the heavy swell which…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
32 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
Another Steamer with a Broken Tail Shaft. Perilous Trip Among the Reefs
BY the New Guinea mail Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co. received details of the accident to their island steamer Ysabel. Whilst on a trip from Cooktown to New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Steamer Titus in the Storm. One of her Crew Lost
THE S.S. Titus left Sydney last Saturday for the Gilbert Islands. She got to the north-east about 100 miles when she met this monsoonal disturbance. Sunday morning it was blowing a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Overdue steamer Walkato
THE barquentine Tacora, which arrived at Mauritius on August 8, reported that she sighted the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waikato (now several weeks…
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ON Saturday afternoon last a telegram from Byron Bay was received in Lismore conveying the brief announcement that a French steamer which had been disabled…
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THE s.s. St. Louis was towed into Sydney early on Monday morning. The Australian Star says: The experience of the French steamer St Louis, which entered the Heads at about 3 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Julia Percy in Peril. Narrowly Escaped Foundering
MESSRS Howard Smith and Sons' steamer John Pere, for whose safery during Thursdays gale anxiety was felt, arrived at Nelson's day on Saturday morning. She went…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Steamer Tekoa
THE steamer Tukoa, which was supposed to have foundered lifter striking upon Staten Island, at the south of Patagonia, has arrived safely at the Falkland…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Ferry Steamer for Grafton. Trial Trip
A SUCCESSFUL trial trip was run on Thursday afternoon of a new double-ended screw ferry launoh, to be used at Grafton, on the Clarence Raver, by the Roads and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Steamer Waikato
THE steamer Waikato, about which so much anxiety has been manifested for the past two months, has been towed safely into Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The vessel had her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Disabled Steamer Walkate
The captain of the barque Banca, London to Brisbane, sighted the Waikato on the 2nd of September, in latitude 43.21 south and longitude 51-46 east. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Transvaal War. News by Mail to 23Rd October. the steamer Basuto, from Capetown, brings copies of the 'Cape Times.:- Arrested for Treason
Colesberg, October 22.—A Dutchman named Rothamnn has just been arrested for treason. The Hags hoisted at the camp to celebrate the victories annoyed him, and he…
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