Arrival of Mail Steamer Somerset. Via Torres Straits. Brisbane
THE Torres Straits Steamer Somerset left Singapore on the 15th December, and Batavia on the 18th. She passed the Legislator on the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875
14 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
English News. Arrival of the P. and O. Steamer Nubia at Adelaide
Dr Colenso has returned to the Cape. It is reported from St. Petersburg that the Comakine detachment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecks on King's Island
A REGISTER has been compiled in the chief harbour-master's office of the wrecks and serious shipping casualties on the coast of King's Island…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Gothenburg. Fate of the Crew and Passengers. Brisbane
INTELLIGENCE has just been received that twenty-three of the passengers and crew of the Gothenburg have reached Port Denison,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Steamer Helen Macgregor. Eight Persons Drowned. (Telegram to Evening News.) Grafton, Friday evening
THE steamer Helen Maegregor, an old trader between Sydney, Newcastle, and Grafton, struck on a reef on the Clarence Bar, at 4 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Gothenburg. Full Particulars
THE minutes of the inquiry held at the Custom-house, Port Dension, into the cause of the wreck of the steamship Gothenburg were telegraphed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mail Steamer on Fire
By the arrival of the Tagus at Plymonth, details are to hand of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company's steamship Nile,…
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The Daily Telegraph mentions three more vessels which, it is feared, have been lost with their crews, nothing having been heard of them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loss of the Rangatira Steamer
BY the arrival of the Lord Ashley (s.), we learn of the complete wreek of the A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Rangatira on a reef off the coast of New Caledonia…
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ONE of the survivors of the lost steamer Cadiz was landed at Southampton yesterday morning from the steamer Guernsey,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Brig Ben Nevis.—narrow Escape of the Crew
Shortly after eleven o'clock, on Sunday night, the captain and crew of the Ben Nevis—which vessel left Newcastle, coal laden for Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seizure of the Steamer Princess
An amusing, and at the same time successful, attempt to evade the law took place at Riverina. We are indebted to the Riverina Herald for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Shipwreck on Lake Michigan
Chicago, September 11.—A terrible disaster which occurred on Lake Michigan has just been reported here. The propellor Equinox, on her way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foundering of the Steamer Pacific. Upward of One Hundred and Fifty Persons Drowned. the Survivor's Statement
My name is Henry Frederick Jelly. I am a native of Ireland, but have lived for the last nine years in the Dominion of Canada, and of the age…
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