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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
18 stories in Riverina's papers
Further reports have been received respecting the heavy weather that has been prevailing in the Atlantic. So intense has been the cold that many ships have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The voyage of the steamer Fifeshiro, which arrived from London on Monday, was made rather exciting at one period by the discovery of a ship on fire. The steamer was proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Liverpool correspondent of the Yorkshire Post writes A most extraordinary discovery is reported to have been made by the crew of the barque Gladys. While on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. of which there are now 305. have been unusually busy during the past year, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWS of the sensational shipping disaster, the result of the recent easterly, gale, was received in Sydney, on Wednesday evening. The unfortunate vessel was the Sauey Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The crew of the Sydney schooner Samoa, which was wrecked at Kiola, on the south coast, last week, reached Sydney on Tuesday morning by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE steamer Lancashire Lass, C. J. Wilson, captain, arrived here this afternoon with a portion of her cargo of lake salt, after a sensatioual trip. This is the first steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another shipping disaster was reported to-day. About 1 o'clock this morning the steam collier Hilda, whilst on a voyage from Port Kembla to Sydney with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN connection with the suicide of a passenger by the steamer Monowai, from Sydney to New Zealand, the nrwd of which was cabled on the vessel's arrival at Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTAIN Armstrong, of the Aramac, which arrived from Sydney this morning, reports that about 12 o'clock last night, when the ship was midway between Point Danger and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Voyaging by steamer in Eastern and Chinese waters is sometimes anything but pleasant, for to the ordinary difficulty of navigating those seas is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Woonoona, one of the colliers belonging to the Bulli Coal Mining Company of Sydney, has been (a Brisbane telegram of Monday says) wrecked in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE rapid strides made in nautical architecture in recent years is (the Argus says) strikingly illustrated by an inspection of the equipments of the Westmeath, a modern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GREAT Britain was yesterday subjected to a cyclone visitation unequalled for violence and destructiveness during the past 14 years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The storm raged with disastrous results on the coasts of England and France. The British bargue Bboukir Bay 1169. tons, founded in the Bay of Biscay twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE hurricane which yesterday swept over Great Britain with extensively disastrous effects has not yet subsided, though its fury has some what abated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FURTHER details of the effects of the recent disastrous hurricane in British waters are now coming in through the arrival in port of vessels which were delayed by the gale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Alert, trading between the Gippsland Lakes and Melbourne, foundered off Jubilee Point, near Sorrento, during the heavy gale last night. All hands including…
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