Fire on the Steamer Ointra
Sydney, Monday. â The steamer Cintra, hound for Western Australia, with 500 passengers on board, put into Portland, Victoria, with her cargo on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
9 stories in South Coast's papers
The Wrecked Collier Aldinga
WOLLONGONG, Thursday.—The wrecked steamer Aldinga remains in exactly the same position on the Bellambi Roof as when she first stranded. She is quite motionless, with a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Ashore
Sydney, Monday. â The steamer Glanworth, from Rockhampton to Gladstone, ran ashore near Gladstone at midnight on Saturday. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loss of a Ferry Steamer
A TERRIBLE disaster, occasioning the loss of between 30 and 40 lives, occurred in the Brisbane River on Thursday afternoon last. The ferry steamer Pearl left Queenâs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reported Death of James Stanbury. an Anxious Afternoon. Excitement All Over the Colonies. Stanbury Capsized, But Swam Ashore
Shortly after cloven o'clock, yesterday morning a special telegram from Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, to the "Shoalhvon Telegraph," announced the death, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Disaster at Sea. Wreck of the Drummond Castle. Fearful Loss of Life, London
A terrible shipping disaster has occurred off the coast of Ushant, an island lying west of France. News just received from there reports that a steamer unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tidal Waves at Raratonga. Narrow Escape of a Schooner
LITTLE received from the Cookâs Group give [?] of the remarkable phenomenon at Rarotonga, in the shape of tidal waves. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Idea Ashore
A telegram Was received in Sydney on Wednesday from the Bellinger River to the effect that the steamer Idea, well-known in conflection with the Shoalbaven trade, had gone ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Remarkable Lifeboat
THE most unique lifeboat yet invented is one conceived by James C. Walker, who has just parented the invention. In hardly any respect does this…
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