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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea
89 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 4 of 5
After steaming from Guadalcanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the-large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ketch Ida, bound from Sydney to New Guinea, went ashore at Nelson's Bay yesterday during the gale, and became a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Who can doubt but that there are higher intelligences around us, possessed of more senses than we, but who cannot fully commensurate with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A steamer with 400 exc[?] aboard has been wrecked in the Finnist Sh[?]. The fate of the excur[?] is unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large Swedish mail steamer, carrying 500 Stockholm excursionists, was wrecked off Korpe Island, in the outer skerries, to-day. At present it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Erina, lying at Long wharf, Balmain, was partly destroyed by fire this morning. Toomas Childe, junr., sun of the owner, war asleep on the boat when the alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An outbreak of fire, aboard the steamer Erina, 55 tons, lying alongside the wharf, White Bay, Balmain, this morning, resulted in the vessel being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars of the loss of the schooner Bell Flower, on the New Zealand coast, show that the crew hung to the ship till daylight. Great heroism was shown by Seaman Watson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steam collier, Wallarah, while loading coal at Catherine Hill Bay for Sydney, caught fire during last night in the officers' quarters. The boat is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Fifeshire went ashore in the Gulf of Aden. She became submerged, and was abandoned. Captain Cremer, commander, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT seems to be evidence of another tragedy of the soa has been found on the beach at Paronana (N Z), where a raft or three casks bound together, with two masis…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The coastal steamer Rosedale, which left the Nambucca River on Friday for Sydney, is seriously overdue. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All hope of the discovery of the steamer Rosedale is now abandoned. A part of the deck house has been found in the channel at the Macleay River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is now little doubt that the Rosedale, the North Coast steamer, went down with all hands on board on Friday night. The crew and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further particulars concerning the sinking of the French battleship show that the men were hurled into the air and were dead when they reached the water. Altogether 350 men are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British steamer, harneld, from Huelva, Spain, for Roterdam, was sunk by the British steamer Glasgow, which was proceeding from Roterdam to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Maclcey, 398 tons, struck a reef near Broughton Island during Wednesday night. The vessel immediately turned turtle and sank. Out of a crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Macleay has gone ashore on Brougton Island, and it is feared will become a total wreck. Two sailors made their way to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Macleay struck a reef near Broughton Island, off Port Stephens, on Wednesday night. She immediately turned turtle and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After all the women and children were gone, I began to think it was time to take my. own .passage. Nothing,I hope, would have induced [?]e to leave the sinking…
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