A Bicycle Saves a Shipwrecked Crew
That a bicycle should be of any use to the crew of a drifting and dismasted vessel might seem improbable enough, yet it was to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905
15 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Sale of a Steamer
It has been officially announced that the A.U.S.N. steamer .Rockton has been sold to an English firm in [?] Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Orizaba Ashore
THE Orient-Pacific Company's steamer Orizaba, carrying the English mails (the last under the contract system), is ashore at Garden Island, nine miles south of Rottnest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Orizaba
Captain Archer, in the course of a statement to the press on Saturday morning, said:—"The cause of the accident was a dangerous strong current, the vessel having overrun her correct course by about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Australia Wreck
The last of the salvage operations at the wreck of the steamship Australia are now in progress. When it was found that it would be unprofitable to float the hull off the rocks it was decided to blast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Missing Steamer Pilbarra
There are no tidings of the missing steamer Pilbarra, now several days over-due…
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The steamer Albury, which left Sydney for Brisbane on Saturday, struck on a reef near Nambucca bar on Sunday afternoon. All hands were safely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Naturalist. Puss Saved From Shipwreck by Swimming
On Wednesday, March 12, 1873, a cat reappeared at the house of a Mrs Mowbray, at [?] Hartlepool, Durham, after having escaped from drowning or starvation by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecking of the Na [?] Ann
For the hundredth time in one-tenth as many days, Mrs Russell was discanting upon the glories of a title and relating the advantages of a permanent residence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Press Steamer
The authorities at Macao, a Portuguese port near Hongkong, China, have granted a clearance to a Chinese steamer which has been chartered by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All But Cannibals. Terrible Trials of a Ship Wrecked Crew
Twelve men of the steam-dredg[?] Texas, which foundered in the Bay Biscay recently wens landed by steamer Zeno at Waterford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Breaks in Two. Scene on the Mersey
While the Liverpool steamer Benshaw was proceeding up the Mersey on Saturday morning, June 10th, bound for Garsston with a [?]argo of about 3000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Much Wrecked Family
THOMAS RICHARD PEARCE, who was one of the apprenties on the ill-fated Looh Vennachur, belongs to a family, nearly every member of which has been wrected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jacques Ashore. Rejoicings at Portsmouth. Fraternising of the Sailors
The Portsmouth correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” wrote on 30th August from Portsmouth:— Who was it said we are an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Short Story a Trip to 'The Lifeboat.'
The 'Lifeboat' is down in the East—the sombre, toll-worn East—anchored hard and fast to dry land. 'What a queer sort of a boat!' you say. Well, so it is, being…
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