Pearling Fleet Wrecked. Over 100 Lives Lost
The pearling fleet in Lagrange Bay, 40 miles south ox Broome, on the north-west coast of Australia, has been destroyed as the result of a willy willy, or typhoon…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
154 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 8
Taviuni Wreck
The last attempt to float the Tavinni which went ashore near Westport, N.Z., has proved a failure, and the steamer is now embedded seven or eight feet in the sand…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Wreck of the President Felix Faure Sixty Days on an Island. Sufferings of the Castaways Living on Sea Birds
In regard to the wreck of the French barque President Fehy Faurs. bound from New Ca[?] to Havre, on Anti[?] Island, on the Pacific Ocean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missing Steamer Orion. Wreckage Identified. Hope Completely Abandoned. Launceston
A sailor on board the Wareatea, who was formerly on the Orion, has identified the ladder found in the strait, 26 miles from Tamar Heads,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Wreckage Found. Fate of the Vessel. Signs of Terrible Disaster. Hobart
The Premier to-day received a message to the effect that the ketch Helen Maude, trading to Strait Island, came across a quantity of wreckage on Long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Disasters. Two Vessels Wrecked. No Lives Lost. Sydney
The schooner Wallinga, bound from Cape Hawke to Sydney, crashed on to the rocks at Port Stephens at 3 o'clock this morning and became a…
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The 80-ton schooner Willinga, owned by Goodlet and Smith, of Sydney, was wrecked at Port Stephens, N.S.W., on the morning of May 27. The vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Shipwrecked Sailors. Found on a Pacific Island. London, June 5
Twenty shipwrecked sailors, supposed to belong to the battleship Tushima, have been found upon a Pacific island…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Gale. New Zealand Works Wrecked Family Crushed to Death. Auckland
The camps on the North Island main trunk railway construction works were wrecked last night by a terrific easterly gale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Sailors Discovered. on a Pacific Island. Supposed Survivors of Tsushima. London
The Brazilian training ship Benjamin Constant has discovered on an island in the Pacific twenty shipwrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Bega. Expert Evidence. Sydney
The inquiry into the loss of the steamer Bega was resumed to-day. Captain Grainger gave expert evidence. He said the Bega was a "stiff"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fishing Boats Wrecked. Over Three Hundred People Drowned. London
Fifty fishing boats have been wrecked off Kagoshima, a large town of Japan, on a bay of the same name. It is reported 350 of the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the Bega. Company Corners Marine Experts
The inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the New South Wales coastal steamer Bega, which foundered after leaving Tathra on April 5, was resumed on June…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Bomb Outrage. Explosion on a Steamer. an Atrocious Crime. Eight Killed, Forty Injured. the Vessel Sinks. London
A bomb secreted in a bale of cork on the America-Hamburg liner Arcadia exploded whist the steamer lay in Delaware river at Philadelphia…
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On Thursday of last week a heavy fog hung over the N.S.W. coast in the vicinity of Sydney, and mariners, both in me harbor and outside, had an anxious…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wreck of the Bega
At the inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the N.S.W. coastal steamer Bega off Tathra on April 5, Mr. Walter Reoks, naval architect, was re-examined…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wreck of a Steam Tug. Four Survivors Rescued. Vessel Bound to Sydney. London, June 24
The fact that the British tug B[?]lmore, 168 tons, has met with disaster while on a voyage from the Clyde to Sydney, has become known though…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked in a Fog. Spanish Liner Lost. Nearly a Hundred Lives Lost. London
The Spanish liner Larache foundered yesterday in a fog after striking the rocks at the entrance to the Harbor of Muros, a small Spanish port in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mishap to a Steamer
The steamer Eden on arrival from South Coast ports was reported to be leaking; and after discharging her cargo was taken into dock, where it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Liner Ashore. Pounding to Pieces. Passengers Number 77. LONDON, July 22
The Koomoa liner Anumbus, with 77 passengers and crew, went ashore off Sanmigul Island, in the Northern Pacific, and is pounding to pieces…
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