Another New Steamer
THE Pericles, the large steel twin screw steamer of the Aberdeen Line built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, to the order of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
20 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Teetotal Lifeboat Crew
At Frinton-on-Sea on Monday, "The Sailors Friend," a lifeboat of the Norfolk and Suffolk type, which has been built at a cost of £360, raised by residents and visitors…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipping Disaster. Steamer Bega Lost. Passengers Land on a Raft. One Passenger Collapses
GREAT excitement was occasioned in Sydney on Monday morning when information was received from the South Coast that the Illawarra and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Steamer Regs Begs
News reached Bega this morning that the steamer Bega, which left Tathra at 6.30 p.m. for Sydney, with a full cargo and a large number of passengers and show horses and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Loss of the Bega. How the Steamer Was Abandoned
Later particulars regarding the loss of the Bega have been received, including a statement by Captain Bishop, who had command of the ship. The vessel left Tathra shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Bega
A contingent only of the passengers who were in the steamer Bega when she foundered on Sunday night reached Sydney by the "milk" train on Wednesday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bega Wreck. Sensational Evidence Promised
The Superintendent of Navigation, Captrin Henry Newtown, received a telegram on Saturday from the South Coast suggesting that the inquiry into the circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Sensation. the Steamer Allowrie Makes Voyage with Hole in Side
Following close upon the disaster to the steamer Bega, another of the I.S.N. Co's boats, the Allowrie, has caused quite a sensation in shipping circles, and revelations of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Replacing the Bega. Steamer Kempsey Purchased
The Illawarra and S.C.S.N. Company has purchased the steamer Kempsey, well known in the North Coast trade under N. Cain's flag, to take up the South Coast running. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked by a Meteor
A STRANGE tale of adventure by sea, savouring more of fiction than of actual fact, was told by some sailors who reached…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fastest Channel Steamer
What "Engineering" calls the fastest Channel steamer was launched recently from the Naval Construction Works, at Barrow-in-Furness of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Bega
The Court of Marine inquiry, consisting of Judge Rogers and assessors, Captains Witherspoon and Berry, delivered judgment on Saturday after the exhaustive inquiry that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Stowaways. Nine on a German Steamer
Nine Chinese stowaways were f?und at an early hour on Saturday morning on board the German steamer Prinz Waldemar, which arrived in Sydney from Hongkong on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Officers' [?] Wrecked. Two Lieutenants Killed. in a Night Collision
From Berlin, on 5th June, the correspondent of the "Daily Mall" wrote:— Lieutenant-Commander Assmann and Lieutenant Fritzsche, two well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Missing Steamer Hawea
After drifting about for a month the Union Company's steamer Hawea arrived in Sydney on Sunday in tow of the Rakanoa. The Hawea was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Wreck Chart
As a result of the numerous storms and cyclones over the Atlantic which characterised the beginning of the year 1908, the number of floating wrecks and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Bonnie
FOR SALE AT AUCTION.—To-day at eleven o'clock, the ferry boat "Bonnie," damaged in the accident of Thursday, and now tied up at the foot of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Wreck Chart
As a result of the numerous storms and cyclones over the Atlantic which characterised the beginning of the year 1908, the number of floating wrecks and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Theodore Rendix. a Man Who Can Wreck the Highest Building with a Fiddle
Just now, when the eyes of people all over the world are watching with interest the completion in New York of the highest buildings the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warships in Collision British Destroyers Damaged a Barque Wrecked
After a brilliant engagement off Mllford on Monday night, August 9th, in connection with the naval manoeuvres, when both the Red and Blue sides claimed a…
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