Picket Boat Sunk. Run Down by Steamer. Crew's Narrow Escape. Melbourne
A collision occurred in Hobson's Bay this morning between the steamer Courier and a picket boat belonging to the Naval Department…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
309 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 16
A Steamer Ashore. Hornby Grange on Franklin Islands
A Townsville wire says:—The steamer Harrier, which arrived on July 3 from the north, reports that the steamer Hornby Grange is ashore on Franklin Islands, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Hillmeads Beached. Sydney
The steamer Hillmeads was beached at [?]ladulla on Saturday, having sprung a [?]eak while bound from Sydney to Moruya…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Hornby Grange
Captain M'Camley states that the cause of the grounding was the darkness of the night and inability to pick up High Island. The vessel was going astern when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of Fishing Craft. London
A squall on the Cambridgeshire coast wreooked fishing craft, and 20 fishermen were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wrecked Orion. Finding of Marine Court. Sydney
The Marine Court of Tasmania has found that it was impossible to say how the steamer Orion met her [?]ate, but that there was no doubt that the vessel on her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Case of Fireworks Explodes on Steamer. Kiles the Cook. London
A case of fire creackers on board the s.s. Schwaben, loading at Bremen for Austtralia, exploded, killing the cook. The whole consignment of 26 cases was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liner Ashore. London
The Kosmos Steamship Coy.'s liner Anubis, with seventy-seven passengers and crow, is ashore at San Miguel Island, Northern Pacific, and is pounding to pieces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Coast Trade. Another Steamer Damaged. Plates Dented by Piles. Sydney
The steamer Leeuwin, which carries on the Melbourne Shipping Company's South Coast trade, is now in dock with a cracked plate, and also several dents in her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Passengers by Steamer
It is not generally known that there is a local office of the N.C. Shipping Company, and that berths can be secured here as well as at Byron Bay, for any of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Rescue. Order for Destruction. the Dangers of the Channel. Regular Dredging Wanted. Sydney
Arthur McKenzie, manager of the Perpetual Trustee Company, as being the owner of the steam tug "Rescue" which sunk at the entrance to the Richmond River,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Arrested
A Port Pirie telegram. received in Adelaide on Friday, states that the Norwegian steamer Minerva—which had just completed loading a full cargo of ore—had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maritime Accidents. Steamer Mareeba Ashore All Hands Safe. Vessels May Be Saved. Sydney
The A.U.S.N. Co's steamer Mareeba on a voyage from Rockhampton to Sydney, via Newcastle is ashore on Stockton Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scow Driven Ashore. Likely to Become Total Wreck. Sydney
The scow Hilda has been driven ashore at Wreck Bay, just to the south of Jervis Bay, and is likely to become a total wreek, as a strong gale from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whale Washed Ashore. Killed by Thrashers. Taree
An immence whale of the black species was washed ashore near the old bar pavilion on Saturday or Sunday during, theheavy weather. It measured 64 feet in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →P. and O. Express Steamer
THE Salsette, the latest addition to the P. and O. fleet, has just had a successful trial. She is a 6000-ton boat, and is to run between Aden and Bombay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pilot Steamer's Fruitless Curise
A good deal of excitement was created on Thursday afternoon by the receipt of a message from Newport to the effect that two men in an exhausted condition had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Passenger Steamer Ballina
On Saturday afternoon the latest addition to the river [?]eet of Fenwick's Estate, the Ballina arrived at Lismore, decorted with bunting, this being her first trip up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Removal of a Wreck. Rechmond River Entrance. Responsibility of Owners
C. P. Heldebrand on Friday morning at the Waterr Summons Court, before Mr. Macfarlane, S.M., proceeded against Joseph Weston and Mary Salmon upon an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Sophia Ann. SYDNEY
Joseph weston and Mary Salmon were proceeded aganist for failing to remove the wre[?]k of the steamer Sophia Ann from the entrance to the Richmond River…
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