The Elingamite Wreck[?]
With reference to the recovery of £1700 of the Elingamite's treasure; the diver found the vessel in twelve, fathoms of water on the rock pinnacle, and smashed…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907
171 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 9
The Dover Breakwater. a Steamer Charges. Damages, Forty Thousand
The Swedish steamer Olaus Olsson, entering Dover Harbor at midnight on Saturday, 21st October, crashed broadside on into the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →1500 Sovereigns Recovered From the Elingamite Wreck
The treasure-seeking party on board the steamer Huia has recovered 1500 sovereigns from the wreck of the Elingamite, and expect to secure more when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TELEGRAMS. Cyclous at Cosktown. Buildings Wrecked Cooktown, January 21
The mostt disastrous calamity that has ever befallen Cooktown was experienced during Friday night and Saturday. On Thursday afternoon the barometer began…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Maori King. Seized by Russian Authorities
A Townsville telegram says:—"The Cha[?]a had on board five of the crew of the Maori King, which was recently here loading frozen meat. On September…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Ketch Pilot.—engulphed in Cooktown Cyclone
Further details in connection with the wreck of the ketch Pilot are that a blackboy saw the Pilot between Point Lookout and Cape Flattery running before the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Star Published Monday, Wednesday, Saturday. Monday, February 4, 1906. Tying-Up a Mail Steamer
The detention of the s.s. Sonoma, owing to 57 of her crew leaving the vessel just at the point of sailing, had special interest to the public, from the fact of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doomed Women's Despair. Penned in a Sinking Steamer. Faces at the Cabin Windows
The steamer Dix (wrote the Washington correspondent of the "Daily Mail" on 19th November) has been sunk in collision with the Jennie, in P[?] Sound,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fearful Explosion. Dynamite Factory Wrecked Eighty Persons Killed. Over Two Hundred Injured
English flies to 80th November give particulars in telegrams from Berlin correspondents of the terrible disaster at Witten, Westphalia, on the 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Launch of Messrs. Davis Bros' and Burgess' New Steamer
The new river steamer being bunt for Messrs. Davis. Bros. and Burgess at Corakl is to be launched on Tuesday next, and their steamers Britannia and Magnet…
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The Melbidir returned to Cooktown, on February 6th, from her search for the crew of the Government ketch Pilot, which was wrecked during the late…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Launch of a New Steamer
CORAKI was en fete on Tuesday, the occasion being the launch of a new steamer built to the order of Messrs. Davis Bros. and Burgess, Coraki. The gathering was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Sinks. Wreck of the Berlin. London, Feb. 21, 12.15 p.m
A terrible disaster occurred at Ratterdam this morning. The steamer Berlin, 1775 tons, of the Great Eastern Railway Coy., from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Water Hyacinth in Queensland Excursion Steamer Impeded
The Brisbane "Courier" says, the water hyacinth, with its pretty-flower, is a pitcturesque addition to a fresh water steam, but it is also capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The N. Cain Shipping Co. New Steamer for the Richmond River
The first half-yearly meeting of N. Cain's Coastal Co-operative Steamship Company was held last week, Mr. C. N. M'Clure presiding. The report stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Suevic. London, Monday, 4.55 a.m
The White Star liner Suevic, which left Sydney on 26th January for London and Liverpool, struck the rocks under the lighthouse at Lizard,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Annandale
The captain and crew of the auxiliary ketch Annandale reached Sydney last Saturday evening from the Macleay River by the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Ashore. Landing the Passengers. No Loss of Life. London
THE White Star liner Suevic, 12,500 tons, which left Sydney on January 26 for London and Liverpool, via Australian ports and South Africa, struck on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked on the Voyage to England
Mr. M. M'D. Livingstone and his daughter were passengers in the wrecked steamer Sucyic early this week. All the passengers were rescued, and a cablegram published…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Wreck Located
Pitt Bros., Pearlers, of Thursday Island, have arrived at Cooktown, and report having located the ketch Pilot, wrecked between Lizard Island and Rocky…
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