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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
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Bad news travels apace. Like lightning it was flashed from end to end of the Northern Rivets district before midday on Saturday that the North Coast S.N…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The list of vessels that have been lost on the far North Coast during a period of eighty years is a long one, totalling over one hundred and sixty, and the toil of human…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wire from Sydney, last evening stated that the North Coast S.N. Company had arranged for the steamer Pulganbar to temporarily take the place of the "Wollongbar in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the principal topic of conversation throughout the district was the disaster to the Wollongbar, the position of which is similar to that of Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fresh storm last night severely buffeted the stranded Wollongbar. A party of officers boarded the vessel to-day and the story of their discoveries is not reassuring. Until a thorough inspection is made by the salvage officials, however, it is impossible to say what the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caught in the act of "letting go," after taking aboard the bulk of her cargo, the N.C.S.N. Co's, fine steamer, s.s. Wollongbar, was driven ashore at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The motor Ship Elmaren, which grounded on a coral reef in the Chagos group a few days ago, has become a total wreck. Little hope is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE N.C.S.N. Co's. popular steamer Wollongbar (Capt. Hunter) was driven ashore a few hundred yards north of the Byron Bay jetty on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Gow, lighthouse keeper at Cape Byron, gives the Tweed "Daily" an interesting narrative of the disaster: At about 11 a.m. on Saturday Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Navigation Department has received a message that the small coastal steamer Allenwood is ashore at Camden Haven. The Allenwood left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Byron Bay correspondent writing, yesterday said:—There is no change in the position of the Wollongbar. The weather is fine and warm, and a light north wind came…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Navigation Department has received a message that the coastal steamer Allen Wood is ashore at Camden, Haven. The Allen Wood left with salvage gear…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Coast Steam Navigation Co. makes the following statement: "The directors have received many expressions of sympathy in regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Satin-flay.—With a jury rudder protruding 15 feet from this stern the steamer Kinchela reached Sydney moorings last night after a trying experience…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire caused by a leaking oil tank heavily damaged the United States Shipping Boards new liner Panhandle State. The vessel has been beached…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I most respectfully, beg to call your attention to a slight error with respect to the date of the wreck of the Tweed steamer as published in your paper of Monday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The North Coast Steam Navigation Co. makes the following statement: "The directors have received many expressions of sympathy in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cyclonic storm passed over Red -cliffe, a metropolitan seaside resort, this afternoon, leaving several cleared tracks about 30 feet wide in its wake…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART, Tuesday.—A spar believed to be from the missing American schooner Omega has been picked up in Storm Bay, on the south coast of Tasmania. Attached…
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