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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
20 stories in Riverina's papers
A GALE which has swept along this coast for several days, somewhat abated on the 25th, but the mod still blew very strong, though the sea was not so rough as it had been for the preceding three or four days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most melancholy shipping casualties that have happened on the south coast of Ireland for years, has been reported from Broomhill, near Waterford harbour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In regard to the wreck of the emigrant ship Northfleet, the following narrative is given:- She was lying at anchor between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE accounts received of tho wreck of this ill-fated emigant ship testify to the bravery and devotion of Captain Knowles, and also show the heartless, shameful brutality and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE unusually stormy weather of the last two months of the year which has just closed has directed renewed attention to the lifeboat work. The long list of work done during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The late southerly gale appears to have been the cause of some serious shipping disasters. In addition to the loss of the steamer Fire King, we received on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after the steamer Havilah left New Caledonia a stowaway was discovered in the stokehole. This stowaway being a Frenchman, Captain Fitzsimons thought he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another frightful disaster at sea, almost, if not quite, the most destructive since the loss of the Royal George with "twice four hundred men." The White Star steamer 'Atlantic,' from Liverpool to New York,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE wreck of the White Star steamer the Atlantic, off Halifax, is a calamity greater even than that so recently witnessed in the destruction of the Northfleet off our own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Subject of lifeboats for passenger ships has received much attention in Liverpool since the loss of the Northfleet and Atlantic. A series of experimental trials has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday morning last, just at daylight, a dense fog came on from the sea—so much so that objects were not visible more than a few yards off. Everything…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.'s steamer Rangitoto was totally wrecked on August 30 on Jackson's Point, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte's Sound, Cook's Straits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE New Zealand Havald continue the following telegram reputting the total loss of the steamer Rangitoto, trading between Melbourne and New Zealand, at Queen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is a list of the goods comprised in the cargo of the Victoria:—Charles Hardy: 60 doors, 5 bundles architraves and mouldings, 27 pieces kauri, 1 cask zinc, 1 case, 1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COMSIDERA[?] excitement was caused in London and Liverpool on July 8 by the announcement of the loss of the Inman steamer City of Washington. The vessel left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following particulars of the seizure of the schooner Lavinia and the massacre of four of her crew, have been furnished by Captain Neil Brodie, late master of that vessel, who,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANOTHER item has to be added to the long record of deaths by drowning at sea, which have occurred lately in connection with vessels coming to or sailing from the port of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W. Love; 50 cases kerosene, 7 trunks boots, 1 case sashes and doors, 4 cases biscuits, 6 trunks boots, 6 coils rope, 2 boxes clothes pegs, 9 camp ovens and covers, 3 kegs nails, 4 bundles buckets, 1 bundle frying-pans,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FREDERICKSBURG, August S.— The steamer wavenet, running on the Potomac River, between Washington and Curryman, took [?]about noon to-day, at chatillon Landing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The postal requirements of the colonies with England and China will certainly be well provided for in the future, as next month will be commenced two additional…
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