An Anxious Time in a Foot Schooner
THE Brisbane Carter gives the following account of an accident that befel one of the Moreton Bay pilot schooners:—The Spitfire left the pilot station, Moreton Island, about 6…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1874
22 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
Gallant Lifeboat Services
THE National Lifeboat Institution hs a noble fleet of two hundred and thirty five boats under its management, and these boats save on an average from six hundred to…
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The following is a copy of a letter received from one of the cabin passengers of the Lord Ashley, steamer, bound for the Endeavour River from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Collision and Wreck of the Ville Du Havre
A CORRESPONDENT sends the Argus the following extracts from a private letter received by the mail, which gives a favourable account of the conduct of the crow, dre., of the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why the "Ville Du Havre" Foundered
A LADY writing to the 'St. Louis Democrat' respecting the Ville du Havre disaster, makes Borne extraordinary statements respecting the condition of that vessel, in which she says she…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Macgregor Mail Steamer
BY the arrival of the Mongol and City of Melbourne mail steamers from Kandavn, we have fuller particulars concerning the condition of the Macgregor mailboat, after her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the E. M. S. Sunfoo
ONE of the moat disastrous wrecks that has happened in these waters for some time has just occurred; the Sunfoo, belonging to the Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Company,…
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THE news soon spread through the city and the suburbs, and numbers of people flocked to Sandridge to witness the arrival of the unfortunate shipwrecks, but they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunters' Account of the Wreck of the British Admiral
HENRY P. Macpherson, formerly of Launceston, said: On the night of the wreck I was in the bush between Currie Harbour and the Ettrick, hunting with my mate, Harry…
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PARTICULARS are to Band of the wreck of the British steamship Queen Elizabeth, and the loss of twenty-three lives. It appears that the Queen Elizabeth,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Torres Mail Steamer "Flintshire."
By telegram from Queensland we have the tidings of another disastrous wreck, viz., the Kastern and Australian Mail Company's steamer Flintshire, which has been running the mails between Singapore, Brisbane,…
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A TELEGRAM to the S. M. Herald dated Brisbane, Tuesday, gives the following particulars of this disaster— The steamer Flintshire, from Batavia 5th instant, with a large number of passengers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visit to the Scene of the Wreck of the British Admiral
FROM Point Netherby to Fitzmaurice Bay, a distance of nearly fifteen miles, the beach was lined with fragments of the cargo and traces of the wreck, indicative of the fearful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the British Admiral
SOME further particulars concerning the wreckage from the above ship and its recovery are to hand by the schooner Oygnet, which arrived here from Carrie Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manifest of Steamer Victoria
Geo. Forsyth and Co.: 120 bags sugar, 3 bandles shovels, 7 half-chests tea, 2 casks 2 cases hardware, 105 bugs sugar, 50 half-chests tea. 3 cases coffee, 9 sacks sugar, l case arrowroot, 1 pocket hops, 2…
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A. Bogle: 1 case diamond powder.—C. Hardy: 36 casks coment, 34 bundles shelving, 1 bundle, turnery, 1 bundle sashes, 4 bundles G doors, 24 doors, 110 pieces lumber, 40 pieces moulding, 28 architraves, 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Schooner Sunk by a Monstrous Devil-fish
THE following strange story has been com-municated to the Indian papers: - We had left Colombo in the steamer Strathowen, had rounded Galle, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Torres Straits Mail Steamer
The following items of news have been received by the Torres Straits maill:—At the Lord Mayor's banquet, Mr. Disraeli characterised ritualism as mysterious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Wave Queen
THE Millicent correspondent of the Border Watch sends the following account of the wreck of this vessel:—"The barque Wave Queen, Capt. Healop[?], with a cargo of flour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Cutter Dolphin and Miraculous Escape
THE master and crew of this craft, wrecked lately at Wingan Inlet, who were picked up at sea by the schooner Pioneer, have arrived at Melbourne by that vessel. The Dolphin…
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