The Sunken Steamer Ventnor
The steamer Energy has been engaged for the past three weeks (writes a N.Z. correspondent on Jan 3) trying to locate the wreck of the steamer Ventnor, which…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1903
17 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
The Wrecker. [?]
When Mamie Crocker stepped from the front door of the plain little frame dwelling under the willow by the river side that lowering December afternoon, she glanced…
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After several seconds of this strained silence he said in an awed whisper:—"And so you have come with em—come for me—to take me back into 'em with you."…
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“Confound it, Belle, when a man comes homo tired and discouraged, he can’t stand this eternal worry about bills.”…
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THE steamer Oakland was wrecked at Long Island, north of Newcastle. Eleven persons were drowned. The survivors were picked up in boats. The Oakland left…
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The steamer collier Illaroo was wrecked at Catherine Hill Bay this morning. The Illaroo is the property of the Wallarah Coal Company, and left Sydney at midnight on…
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YET another Australian coastal steamer has met her sad fate in those restless waters of the northern coast, and with it is added more names of ill-fated sailors who venture…
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The schoone Elliston was blown ashore in the late gale seven miles .south of Tacking Point. She is now full of water, and buried in the sand. The crew of seven were all…
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The French mail steamer [?] which left Sydney last Wednesday returned to port yesterday owing to an accident to the machinery having occurred…
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Owing to an explosion on board, the French steamer Amiral Guedon had to be berched on the Arabian coast. The crew and passengers lived 46 days in tents, and…
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A wessel supposed to be the barque [?] bound from East London, South Africa, to Newcastle was wrecked at Morna Point, near Nelson’s Bay last night. A boat…
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While the steamer Oceans was crossing the Manning River bar she capsized and sank. All hands were saved. An aboriginal, who had invested five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. The Missing Steamer Oyalan
The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company has received a cable from the captain of the steamer Pacifoue at Noumes, dated 10 p.m. on Sunday, stating that a fire…
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An ocean liner crossing the Banks in seas that swept the decks sighted a fishing vessel with the flag flying the union down—everywhere the…
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A disturbance occurred on Tuesday night about the premises of a man named B. Shortill, carrying on business as a book maker, in Market-street, Sydney, From information received by the police authorities…
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The French ship Francois Coppoe, bound from Newcastle to San Francisco with coal, was wrecked on the coast of California. The captain and sixteen of the crew are missing…
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A peculiarly forcible illustration of the [?] of the Federal [?] by the experience of the [?] of the [?]…
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