The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner
A considerable amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it become known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a few hours after being…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
15 stories in South Coast's papers
The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner
A considerable amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a few hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New White Star Steamer Oceanic
THE new White Star steamer Oceanic, after her launch on Saturday, January 14, will be the largest ship in the world ; and in some respects, though…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck. Trembling Above the Seething Abyss. Help Arrives at the Last Second. She Looks Back on Her Peril with Dread
It falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight of death in the wild…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck. Trembling Above the Seething Abyss. Help Arrives at the Last Second. She Looks Back on Her Peril with Dread
It falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight of death in the wild…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Shipping Disaster. Excursion Steamer Wrecked. Great Loss of Life. London, April 1
A TERRIBLE disaster has occurred in the English Channel, resulting in the total loss of the London and South-Western Railway Companyâs mail steamer Stella,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illawarra Steam Navigation Company a New Steamer to Be Built
At the half yearly meeting of the Illawarra S.N. Company, held on Wednesday and presided over by Mr. W. Hezlett, the seventy-eighth report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tukapo Wrecked
THOSE who were accustomed to travel from this district to Sydney by the Union Companyâs steamers from Eden, will be sorry to hear of the wreck of the favorite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Tekapo
THE fine steamer Tekapo, of the Union Company's fleet was, on Tuesday, on the reef at the southhead of Maroubra, where she went ashore during a dense…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Perthshire
THE anxiety concerning the disabled 5500 ton steamer Perthshire, which has now been drifting about in the Tasman Sea for 5 weeks, has been allayed by the news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Escape Shipwreck
ONCE, when Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the ill-fated Maine, was in charge of the American coast-survey steamer Blake, he saved his vessel from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Runaway Steamer
A Newcastle telegram dated Thursday last states that great excitement prevailed at Stockton that morning owing to the mysterious disappearance of Mr Peter Callen's little steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death by Drowning. the Wreck of the Stella
THE terrible catastrophe off the Casket Rocks(says âThe Hospitalâ), which has merged the brightness of an otherwise perfect holiday season, has raised many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Commonderry
A change has been made in the [?] of the steamer C[?] which now leaves Sydney every Tuesday night for Moruya. Formerly it was [?] other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mammoth Steamer
THE event of the week in shipping and commercial circles was the arrival of the pioneer steamer Medio, from Liverpool, to inaugurate Messrs…
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