Minora a Wreck
Sydney, Tuesday—The brig Minora, while coming down from Newcastle to Sydney, foundered. She shipped a couple of heavy seas and went down within five minutes,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898
23 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Wreck of a Coastal Steamer
Two or three wrecks have happened at Cronulla Beach, principally small coasting craft, which, while seeking in the darkness shelter in Botany Bay from storms, have misjudged the distance, and…
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Another collier, the Malcolm, which left about an hour after the Amy, was also wrecked, and all hands lost. The yacht Zephyr went ashore at Middle…
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Some disasters were expected as the result of Sunday night's terrific storm, but very few people expected to read such a deathroll as is presented. The telegraph line being…
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London, Thursday.—The Fench ste[?] Flachist has been wrecked at the Isthm[?] Panama. The captain, second officer and of the crew and passengers are saved…
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The brig Amy, a well-known trader between Wollongong and Sydney became a total wreck on Thirroul Beach a little to the north of Bull, on Sunday afternoon, and Captain…
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The search for the missing beats from the Atacama have been unsuccessful…
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The tug Leveret, while assisting to bring in the dismasted steamer Industrie, on Thursday, came in with a boat, which was found to be from the ship Atacama, which…
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Sydney, Tuesday—A terrific swept over New Caledonia. The gunboat Loyalty was swamped by and sunk…
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About the year 1784 there lived in Long Acre a coachbuilder, Lionel Lukin by name. This honest man, knowing very little of the sea (he was born and had…
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The wreck of the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Maitland adda another disaster to the already long list for which the inhospitable eastern coast of Australia is responsiable. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LATEST. Stock Quotations. Mr. Reid at Moruya. Wreck of a Steamer. Latest From the Seat of War. SYDNEY
Cattle--1300 were yarded. Prime firm. Best bullocks £7 2s; medium from £5. Best cows £5 10s…
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Sydney, Tuesday—The steamer Grafton, on her way from Melborne to Tasmania, went ashore on Straban bar yesterday morning, and is now a total wreck. The…
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The steamer Wendouree stranded on the Oyster Bank, at the entrance to Newcastle harbour, early on Wednesday morning, and now lies full of water and a total wreck on…
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The Oyster Bank, which is the resting place of the Wendouree, is a marine graveyard of ships. In 1856 the Eleanor Lancaster was lost there. Then followed the…
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The oldest steamer in the world is the Industry, which was built in 1814, and piled for about sixty years on the Clyde, and was finally laid up where she now…
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London, Monday.—One hundred and six lives have been lost through the wreck of the Mohegan…
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A fire aboard the steamer Buteshire was discovered shortly after midnight on Tuesday. A number of engines have been working constantly since, but the fire was…
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ABOUT seven p.m. on Wednesday a violent crash was heard half over the town, and a blinding cloud of dust arose and obscured the intersection of Monaro and Crawford…
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About seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, just when the town is usually quieter than ever, everyone being sitting at tea, a horse attached to the spring cart of Mr J…
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