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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
305 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 16
The steamer Lady Mildred, of 2100 tons register, which left Newcastle on Friday for Melbourne with 3500 tons of coal, went ashore last night during thick weather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Penguin, while on a voyage from Nelson to Wellington (N.Z.), was wrecked. Of 50 passengers on board, only 13 are believed to have been saved. Sixteen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is a sad story that is disclosed by the wreck ol the steamer Penguin on the coast of New Zealand, but one that so long as men navigate tho seas, and havo to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following passengers, supposed to have been in the wrecked steamer Penguin and missing, stayed over in Picton:—Rev. Mr. Chappell, Miss Jennings. Miss Linesy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The committee of the Lismore Rowing Club late yesterday afternoon received a telegram from Captain Storey, announcing he exceedingly regretted that it would he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Penguin has been totally wrecked on the New Zealand coast. Thirty-seven passengers are missing. Sixteen of the crew are supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British steamer Forest Castle owing to a storm shilting a buoy, struck a rock in the roadstead at Brest (France). and aine lives were lost by drowning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Graphic reports by the survivors of the wrecked Penguin are published. Luke, the second engineer, had a great struggle, and emerged from the water with his body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifty-two bodies have been recovered from the wreek of the steamer Penguin, including those of Messrs. Urquhart (chief engineer). M'Intyre (chief officer), Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The funeral of the victims of the steamer Penguin disaster took place at Wellington yesterday, some being accorded a public burial while others were buried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nineteen of the crew of the wrecked steamer Lady Mildred have arrived in Melbourne. They state that the steamer may go to pieces at any moment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Marino Board inquiry at Adelaide concerning the foundering of the steamer Clan Ranald, Captain Weir, of the Government steamer which visited the scene of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPE TERAWHITI, the scene of the disaster to the Penguin, is only a short distance outside Wellington Heads. Measured over the sea passage, the distance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM to the R. R. Herald on Saturday evening conveyed the information that the steamer Penguin had been wrecked in Cook's Strait, New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The passenger steamer Penguin, 824 tone, was lost off Cape Terrawit. Of 50 passengers only 13 are believed to be saved. Sixteen of the crew are supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The steamer Kooyong was backing out from Howard, Smith and Co's, wharf last night, when by some means she struck the wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"When putting the ship's head down the straits, as it was coming on thick, I was intending to stand down clear to the southeward out of the way," said Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The P. and O. Co.'s new stemer, Mantua, another of the M class of stemer like the Mooltan and Morea, has been lauched at Cairds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The President E. Roca, a steamer running from Southern Argentina to Buenos Ayres, caught fire and sank, Twenty were drowned and 350 saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Beechdale, in ballast, Deiagoa Bay for Newcastle, has been totally wrecked at the mouth of the Limpopo River. There was one fatality…
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