Arrival of the Steamer Meath at Cooktown. Cooktown
The steamer Meath, which arrived tonight from Hongkong, for Sydney, via Singapore, brings news to January 4. It is reported that the Dutch garrison, and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1881
12 stories in Riverina's papers
The Steamer Collaroy. (Echo.)
ON Monday evening the contractors and their men suecceded in laying a 5-inch wire hawser 140 fathoms in length, and a 9-inch hempen hawser, in connection with an anchor of 25…
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A REMARKABLE story of wreck and rescue comes from the Townsville correspondent of the Brisbane Courier. He writes, on Sunday, January 30:—"The Claverhouse (s.) arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Steamer Ridge Park. (S. M. Herald, February 14.)
Our correspondent at Gabo Island sent us, on Saturday, the following, additional particulurs respecting the wreck of the steamer Ridge Park:—"The steamer Ridge Park…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the S.S. Tararua. Fearfal Loss of Life. Only Twenty Persons Saved. (Abridged from the Age.)
A telegram appeared in the daily papers on Saturday morning that the steamer Tarurua, one of the Union Company's fleet of vessels trading between New Zealand and…
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THE steamship India was seized on Wednesday night by direction of the Commissioner of Customs. The circumstances under which the seisure was made are singular. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seizure of the Steamer India
THE steamship India was seized last night by direction of the Commissioner of Customs. The circumstance under which the seizure was made are singular. The vessel arrived…
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THE special correspondent of tht Otage Times gives the following additionalr particulars respecting the wreck of this unfortunate vessel:—The first mate gives me information…
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THE preliminary inquiry into the surroundings of the robbery of the steamer Ferret and the series of swindles subsequently alleged to have been perpetrated by the chief movers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Tararua. a Touching Story
FRANK DENZ, a seaman of the ill-futed steamer Tararua, gives the following episode in the catastrophe to the Rev. O. W. Fairclough, Wesleyan minister, of Invereagill,…
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THE steamer Euro was wrecked on Wednesday afternoon about nine miles from Beachport, South Australia. She struck on some sunken rocks, and began to fill immediately. She had…
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STEAM navigation among the mountain ranges of Colorado is one of the peculiarities of that wonderful region. A Denver paper says: "A sail over the…
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