Exciting Rescue Op a Shipwrecked Crew
A TERRIBLE gale blew on the north-west coast of England on November 19. During the afternoon the harbour master at Maryport saw a vessel in distress in the Solway Firth. The…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
13 stories in Riverina's papers
A Cotton Steamer Burned-- Fifty Lives Lost
Memphis, December 24.--The steamer Kate Adams, plying between Memphis end Arkansas city, while on route to Memphis, was burned shout 40 miles…
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THE American three masted schooner, Nellie M. Slade, which arrived in the Bay yesterday (says Thursday's Age) from Boston, had a remarkably narrow escape from being lost…
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A cablegram of London, March 8, states that H.M.S. Sultan, 19 guns, has gone ashore at Cape Comine, on the east coast of Sardinia. The crew were saved…
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THE New York Herald states that the steamship L[?] Gas[?]gne, of the French line from Havre, which arrived at New York, roports having experienced exccedingly severe weather…
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FROM paragraphs appearing in the home papers, it appears that the Duke of Buccleach, which is well known in Queensland waters, having made several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Gale in Hobson's Bay. the Steamer Lonsdale Ashore. Melbourne
THE heaviest south-west gale experienced for many year's past in Hobscn's Bay took place to-day, when the tide, helped by the wind, rose higher than has been known for 20 years…
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BY the arrival of the R.M.S. Iberia at Albany, we (Argus) are in receipt of the following from our London correspondent:- LONDON, MAY 31…
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BY the arrival of the R.M.S. Iberia at Albany, we (Argus) are in receipt of the following from —A wonderful story has been published of the adventures of the survivors of the barque…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in Sydney Harbor a New Zealand Steamer Sunk
A DISASTROUS collision occurred about 9.45 on Friday night in the harbor, off Bradley's Head, between the steamship Centennial, Captain Lessiug, outward bound to New…
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NEWS has reached Sydney by the barque Heaper of the wreck of the British ship Garston, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, coal laden. The vessel struck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Garston. Arrival of Nine [?] Ways in Auckland. 1600 Million in an Open Boat [?] ACCOUNT
THE [?] Company' steamer Wainui which [?] in Auckland on the 16th last [?] tp passengers Capt. Richard Pye, two officers, and six men of the ship [?]…
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THE death of Captain Dalgarno, once master of the ill-fated ship Invercauld, is notified in a Scotch paper which arrived last mail. The anuouncement will recall to many Australians…
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