A Mail Steamer Ashore
LATE on Friday night the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu, bound from London to Wellington, New Zealand, went ashore on Farewell Spit, the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897
32 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
Filibustering steamer Sunk. LONDON, Jan. 4
FURTHER newve has been received conceruintf the foundering of the filibuste[?]ng s[?]amer Commodore which cleared from Jacksonville, Florida, for Cuba, having on…
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NEWS comes from Molbourne that the iron barque County of Antrim, 1200 tons, in charge of Captain Hyland and a crow of 18 men all told, laden with steel rails from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mail Steamer Robbed
A GOLD robbery, which created a sensation, was reported on Saturday to the Melbourne police, 5000 sovereigns having been abstracted from the strong ropm on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Troopship Wrecked. London, Jan. 25
FURTHER details have been received respecting the loss of the steamer Warren Hastings, which was totally wrecked on the French island of Reunion, in the Indian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Shipwrecked Crew. London, March 29
ANOTHER boat from the French steamer, Ville de Saint Nazaire, which foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, has been picked up at sea. Ten or twelve days ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Royal National Life-boat Institution
The Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution have pressed the Government to agree to the early appointment of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ship Zuleika Wrecked. Twelve Lives Lost. Auckland
The ship Zuleika, bound from Dunedian to Wellington, has been wrecked at Cape Palliser. Twelve of the crew are believed to have been drowned. Nine bodies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Man Butler. Arrival at Srdney. Smuggled Ashore Quietly
SYDNEY, TUESDAY. The R.M.S. M[?] with Butler, of Blenbrook [?]ty, on board, arrived in hat[?] to-day after a [?] from [?] land. Caret[?] been made to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capture of a Turkish Steamer London, 13Th May
The Greek gun boat Pinios, 420 tons displacement, has captured and brought into Skiattes, off the Gulf of Volo, a Turkish mercantile steamer, with 100 Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipping Casualty at Thursday Island. Steamer Duke of Devonshire Beached. Thursday Island
The steamer Duke of Devonshire, which arrived here yesterday from London, on [?]suming the voyage struck an unknown obstacle in the harbour and almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greeks Capture an Austrian Steamer. London, 20Th May
A Greek torpedo boat has captured an Austrian Lloyd's steamer, which was bound for Volo, which has been occupied by the Turks. On board the vessel were the newly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecks on the Coast
DURING a heavy gale off the coast on Monday night the ketches Ability, Favorite, Bell Bird and Osprey were all driven ashore on the beach at Cape Hawke (a telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. [By Telegraph.] London, June 29. Wreck of the Aden
The steamer Aden when on the voyage from Hong Kong to London struck a reef off the Island of Socotra, near the entrance to the Red Sea, on June 9th last. The sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Aden. London, July 1
FURTHER particulars have been received concerning the wreck of the P. and O. Company's Royal mail steamer Aden, on a reef off the island of Socotra, not far from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck on New Zealand Coast. U.S. Tasmania Sunk. Six Lives Lost. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE steamer Tasmania, bound from Sydney to New Zealand, has been totally wrecked. She sank within an hour. LATER…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Adex. Why the Passengers Were Not Rescued. Thought to Have Been Deserted
By the R.M.S. Massilia, which arrived at Adelaide on Tuesday, files came to hand containing further details respecting the loss of the P. and O. steamer Aden, wrecked on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intercolonial. [By Telegraph.] Sydney. Monday. Jack Ashore
William Hawkes and Sydney Bartlett, two marines, who with a number of companions created a disturbance in George-street last night, were before the court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Tasmania. Sydney
THE wreck of the Tasmania has been proved by cables which Arrived on Saturday to have been attended by much heavier loss of life than was at first surmised. Mr. Kendall,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wellington. Monday. the Tasmania Wreck
Arrangements are being made for the despatch of a steamer from Gisborne to recover the mails on the wrecked steamer. The diver who saved the Wairrapa mails is…
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