Schooner Asks Its Way Across the Ocean
It is easy enough for a person to find his way across a continent by asking the way of the occasional passer-by, but it would hardly be…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911
28 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Echo of a Great Disaster. Wreck of the Birkenhead
Yesterday, June 21, there was unveiled in the Parish Church of Beckingham, Notts, a memorial to the late Mrs Marian Parkinson, one of the last survivors of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Naturalist. Puss Saved From Shipwreck by Swimming
On Wednesday, March 12, 1873, a cat reappeared at the house of a Mrs Mowbray, at West Hartlepool, Durham, after having escaped from drowning or starvation by…
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A notable character produced by the dangers and the peculiar navigation of the Niagara River was Joel R. Robinson, who piloted the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Yongala Wreck
On Monday evening the Adelaide Company's Ouraka arrived at Brisbane after another search. Captain Laing on being interviewed, expressed his opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Constipation Wrecks Health. 20 Years' Illness, Ended by Bile Beans
"ABOUT twenty years ago," says Mrs. A. Mason, of Sturts St., Adelaide. "I commenced to suffer from constipation, indigestion and biliousness. After…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Article I.
This narrative must begin at the beginning. In Charles Dickens' story of "The Cricket on the Hearth," he say, "If I am to tell a story I must begin at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; or Two Months on an Island Steamer. Article Ii. Nearing Gizo
We have been six charming days at sea, during which every experience worth recalling and relating has been exchanged by the now happy family…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Trip to the Solomons; or Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Iii
"Awake!" cries the Persian poet, "for Morning, in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yongala Wreck. Royal Commission to Be Appointed. Brisbane
The Premier, seen to-day respecting the decision of the South Australian Government that any inquiry into the loss of the Yongala should be made by the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Trip to the Solomons ; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Pepesala (Russell Islands). Paper Iv
Dr. Quaiffe, son of the respected medico of that name, who resides at Woollahra, Sydney, came on board at Rendova, and took Mr. Meeks' vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Trip to the Solomons; or Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper V. Baniki, or "The Hill Top."
The phrase, "The voyage of life," is such a common one that it has lost its significance, at any rate, to the untravelled man. But its appropriateness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Vi. Gavutu and Tulagi
We arrived at Gavuta early one morning, and, I felt my heart go out to it with a hound. Indeed, throughout the trip I have felt like a young man,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Vii. Guadalcanar
Gallego, Mendana's chief pilot, reported in his journal of this island, that it would probably take months to sail right around it. This of course,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Viii. Santa Cruz
After steaming from Guadalcanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper VIII.—(Continued). Santa Cruz
Who can doubt but there are higher intelligences around us, possessed of more senses than we, but who cannot fully commensurate with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Moruya Ashore
NEWS was received on Thursday afternoon that the Illawarra and South Coast S.N. Co.'s steamer Moruya had gone ashore at Pebbly Beach, between Ulladulla and Bateman's Bay. The vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Clyde Steamer
OWING to the rough weather on the coast the steamer to Nelligen did not make her usual trip on Friday last. She was to leave Sydney on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecked. a Thrilling Sea Story. Crew's Terrible Privations. One Boatload Missing. Supposed to Have Been Drowned. Auckland
A thrilling story of the sea was told by some of the crew of the barque Puritan, who arrived here by the steamer Talune last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clyde Steamer
OWING to the I.S.N. Co.'s steamer that runs between Sydney and the Clyde River having been placed in dock for repair, some of the freight has been brought by Mr. John Taylor's timber boats…
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