Dreadful Shipwreck
THE people of Sheerness were somewhat astounded on December 7th by the rumour that some of the crew of a German vessel which had been wrecked had landed there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1876
15 stories in Riverina's papers
Extraordinary Attempt to Blow Up a Steamer. (Home News.)
A terrible crime was committed some days ago in Bremerhafen. In order to gain an insignificant sum of a few thousand thalers, an individual conceived the horrible idea of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LIFE-SAVING. (From the Lifeboat.)
IN the month of March the following excellent services were rendered by the Caister small lifeboat, the Boys:— While on a voyage from Nawcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Banshee
MR. ELLIOT MULLENS gives the following graphic account of the late lamentable wreck of the steamer Banshee on Hinchinbrook Island…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Banshee
WE have received from one of the survivors, Mr. [?] accountant of the Australian Joint Stock [?] the following account of the wreck of the Banshee [?] on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Strathmore. Sufferings of the Survivors. (From the Times of India.) GALLE, February 25
THE following is the narrative of Mr. George D. Crombie, from the Strathmore, taken on the day of landing of twenty of the survivors at Galle, C[?] twenty-four other having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wreck of the S. S. Javad. the Gunner’s Narrative
THE Times of India gleans the following particulars of this calamity from one of the survivors, Peter Augustino, the gunner. The Javad he states left Jeddah in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Stephano and Loss of Fifteen Lives. (From the West Australian Times, May 16.)
THE cutter Jessie, 23 tons, Tuckey master, arrived at Freemantle on the 5th May, from the pearling ground, bringing news of the wreck of the barque Stephano, 875 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of an Emigrant Ship on Trowbridge Shoal
The ship Lightning, with 406 emigrants, went ashore at Trowbridge, three miles nearer shore than where the Iron King was wrecked. The accident happened in broad daylight,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Geltwood
ON Wednesday Mr. Kennedy overseer of the Benera station, and Mr. R. Houston, boundary rider, were out amount the hammocks south of Rivoli…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Manifest of the Steamer Victoria
B. and A. M‘FARLAND 1 buggy, 1 set harness, 2s. swing bows, 3 cushions CRAMSIE BOWDEN and Co; 1 box E M’[?] I parcel picture GRAINGER and BARRY [?] H. DUFFIN 48 bags bran (5 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Dandenong
MELBOURNE was thrown into a state of the most painful excitement on Wednesday morning by the intelligence that the s.s. Dandenong had been wrecked on the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Elmgrove. Captain Leddra's Remarkable Escape. (From the Melbourne Herald.)
THE colonial steam-sloop Pharos, which was despatched on Friday to the scene of the loss of the bargue Elmgrove, on the South-Eastern coast, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dandenong Wreck, and British Pluck. (Argus.)
"I HAD fully intended to make another trip to the steamer. The two seamen who were with we were Anderson and Eklund. They, with Mr. Dykes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Schooner That a Farmer Built for a Voyage to Australia
The New York Forest and Stream says:—"We have examined a queer craft now lying at the foot of Beekmanstreet, in this city, built and owned by…
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