Mail Steamer Sinks
London, Tuesday Afternoon.—The Oceanic Company's mail steamer Germanic has sunk at a pier in New York Harbor…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
15 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
An Unsinkable Life-boat
A lifeboat has been invented which it seems impossible to sink. It has been put to severe tests in which a crew of twelve men capsized the boat, ran it on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Er Norton’s Wale. Thee Headhittue of the Wreckord
Deer Sur,—Hi knowtis theires bean er lotter rane lateley, an mar sea hime knot 2 goe owt inn hit cors hi myt gitt worter hon mea, butt wen hit cum shea pott mea hin er…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Er Norfun’s Wale. 2 Thee Headhittur Ov[?]thee Wreckord
Sur,—Er frend ses er parsu inn thee districk gott erbowt 580 pownds larst yeer hand pade ther koav vrot duz awl ther werk 130 pownds owt ov his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Woman the Solitary Surviver of a Shipwreck
On April 3rd, 1886, it was publicly announced that Queen Victoria had written to Miss Elizabeth Mouatt, expressing her sympathy with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News. Sydney, Tuesday, 1.56 p.m. Shipwreck and loss of life
The ship "Loch Hoy", from Glasgow to Melbourne has gone ashore on the South Australian coast, and become a total wreck, twenty seven lives lost,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Wrock on the Australian Coast. Loss of Thirty Lives. Driven Ashore in the Dark
ADELAIDE. Tuesday.âNews reached Adelaide this morning of a torrible shipwreck causing great loss of life. The barque Loch Sloy. 1225 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Loch Sloy. Burying the Bodies Washed Ashore. Adelaide
The search par[?]es from Kangaroo Island have so far been unsuccessful and the remarkable thing is that they could find no trace of kilpatrick, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tekapo Wreck
Many thousands visited the scene of the wreck of the steamer Tekapo on Saturday and Sunday. Buses continued to ply from Waverley and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in Hobson's Bay. a Steamer Sinks
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—During a heavy fog in Hobson's Bay this morning a disastrous collision occurred between two steamers trading between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Barque. a Horrible Tale of Suffering. a Man Killed and Eaten
London, Monday.—Intelligence has just been received of the wreck of a Norwegian barque, which was attended with horrifying conduct on the part of the survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Loss of the Thermopylae. Wrecked Near Capetown. London
News has been received from Cape Colony stating that the Aberdeen White Star liner T[?] has gone ashore at Croon Point, near Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chapter Xxxvii. the Strange Schooner
' There is the schooner! See!' The cry fairly burst in a yell from the lips of a midshipman on board the United States vessel-of-war at anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A French Steamer Fired On
The British cruiser Magicienne fired cartridges at the French steamer Cordoba, 70 miles from Delagoa Bay, in the belief that she carried…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chapter Li. Wrecked
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Luline, the buccaneer's wife, sought to find a hiding-place. She knew not where to go—what to do. But in…
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