Adrift on a Raft. Sufferings of a Shipwrecked Crew
The New York correspondent of the “Daily Mail” wrote on 17th October: — Of the crew of eight of the schooner van Name and King which was…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
29 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Disastrous Shipwreck
The Pacific steamship Company’s steamer, Valencia, has gone ashore, near Vancouver. Sixty of those on board were drowned, and 100 are in great…
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Latest information concerning the loss of the steamer Valencia, Wrecked at Cape Beale, near Vancouver, states that the total loss was 107…
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The Russian protected cruiser Oleg is badly stranded on the rocks near Algiers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Roosevelt’s Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep
The New York correspondent of the London “Daily Mall” wrote on 27th November:— At the close of his visit to New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Wreck of the Sixties the Steamship London. Terrible Loss of Life
Just forty years ago on the 11th January the s.s. London, bonud from London to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay, after three or four days' battling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On a Channel Steamer. Snapshots in the Stratts
On the [?]ay a string of not like men are busy disembowelling the train of its mailbags ad luggage. From the stone bollards miniature…
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The large Norwegian steamer Thordis, which cost £40,000, after leaving Newcastle with a cargo of coal went ashore at Port Stephens on Sunday…
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It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds out of the wrecked "Australia," which he bought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fortune from a Wreck
It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J.G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in a Cave. Wreck of the Valencia. Woman and Children
According to the London “Daily Mail” of 26th January, a raft with nineteen sailors from the wreck of the steamer Valencia on the coast near Cape Beale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adrift on an Iceberg. Shipwrecked Crew in Camp
Sea captains have all strange experiences (says the Scattle “Post Intelligencer”) but that of Captain Harry Turner, port captain of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage
The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mall" wrote on 19th January:— The precipitancy of a workman in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shot on the Bridge. Steamer Fired At. Mysterious Outrage
Particulars of a remarkable outrage in the North Sea were given at Leith on 1st February by C. Lilge, the first mate of the German steamer Gemma, 540 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fifty Years Under the Sea. Souvenir of the Sirius. First Atlantic Steamer
The King has been graciously pleased to accept a souvenir of the s.s. Sirius, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. The souvenir is a circle of metal about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Theatre Wrecked. Hypnotic Failure. Bolts As Weapons
Ahrensineyer, the “cowboy bypncitst,” met with an audience that he was unable to bypnotise in Belfast on Friday night, 2nd February, and a not took…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Crew's Adventure Hardships in an Old Indian Fishing Camp
The details of a little drama (writes the London "Daily Mail" of 13th February) of the sea have reached Newport Monmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Aquidaban Wreck. Three Admirals Lost
The "Daily Mail" of 13th February wrote:—The explosion which sank the Brazilian Ironclad Aquidaban on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Wires. Sydney, Friday. SHIPWRECK
The French ship Vincennes, 1740 tons, was driven ashore at Ocean Beach, Manly, last night. All the crew have been saved. She was in ballast from…
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THE French barque Vincennes went ashore at 10 o'clock on Thursday night at Manly beach, close to the Clarendon Hotel. The captain…
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