Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1867

6 stories in South Coast's papers

The Storm at Wollongong. Wreck of the Ketch Margaret. Death by Drowning of Pilot Edwards

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1867 · page 2

At the time of our going to press on Thursday night last we stated that the South Coast was being visited by ope of the most severe storms of wind and rain that had oocurred for many…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatal Accident.—three Pilot Boats Capsized. Eight Lives Lost

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1867 · page 2

YESTERDAY we received the melancholy intelligence that eight man had last their lives on the previous day, off Sydney Heads, and we find by our contemporary, the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Beeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago, at Newcastle. Expected Floods to the South

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1867 · page 4

SCARCELY have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Reeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1867 · page 3

Scarcely have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fearful Railway Accident

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1867 · page 4

EARLY on Wednesday, June, 25th, one of the most appalling accidents which it has ever been the fate of journalists in India to relate,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Boat Accident in the Harbour

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 2

A boat accident, attended with a lamentable Ioss of life, occurred on Sunday evening, between Middle Head and South Head. On Sunday afternoon, a party of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →