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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
11 stories in South Coast's papers
ONE of the most appalling disasters that have ever occurred in connection with the Clarence River trade took place this evening. The steamer new England, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have just returned from the scene of the wreck. The most accurate reports give 47 persons as the number who were on board the New England at the time of the wreck, 36 are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPTAIN MANN could not swim. He was married, and leaves a widow and four children, resident in Grafton. The Captain had been upwards of 20 years in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JANUARY 13, 188—. Twenty-nine to-day, with two painful facts staring me blankly in the face. I am reduced almost literally to my last cent, And have no prospect of increasing this sum. For the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It may have been that the boys of the Sophomore class in the old College began it, or it may have been something in the grave, quiet dignity and power of the man-a something…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FOR a considerable time past Mr. W. J. Smith, of Woollahra, has devoted his energies to the praiseworthy object of perfecting life saving appliances for use at sea;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lines suggested by some foreign letters picked upon the cast coast of Scotland, after a storm. TO-NIGHT there in a storm at sea; I hear the breakers roar;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRING novelists, your note-books! bring, dramatists, your pen! And I'll tell you a simple story of what women do for men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALMOST every new boat shows some, decided improvement. The Bega, the last new steamer added to the Illawarra Company's fleet, in a marked degree…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INTELLIGENCE reached Bega on Sunday afternoon of the total loss of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co.'s fine steamship Tasman, on Friday morning last, off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Corinna arrived at Hobart on Saturday, from the scene of the wreck of the Tasman, with the crew and passengers all safe. Captain Evans furnishes the…
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