The Steamer Ban Righ
London, Jon. 1.—Venezuela has offered the sum of £2000 and the value of the cargo for the capture of the steamer Ben Righ which has been…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1902
10 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
A Terrible Scene on a Sinking Steamer
London, Saturday.—The story of another terrible marine disaster is to hand from the Pacific coast. The steamer Walla Walla, from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sketcher. the First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic
IN many quarters the idea seems still to prevail—and we gave expression to its quite recently in an article on 'Some Early Steamships'—that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Steamer in Collision
The collision between the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rangatirs and the ship Ardgowan was a rather sensational affair according to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How the Tulip Wrecked Holland
In these sober days, when the tulip the queen of spring flowers, is to be bought and sold as cheaply as 3s. a 100, it may seem hard to realize the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of a Steamer
The steamer Ventnor, bound from Wellington to Hongkong, with the bodies of 480 disinterred Chinese on board, struck the rocks off Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Disaster. the Elingamite a Total Wreck. Dr. Middleton and Mr. C. Waters among Those who Reach the Shore
The startling news is to hand of the loss of the steamer Elingamite, which was totally wrecked at Three Kings on Sunday morning. The news of the wreck comes home to our readers with the greater…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Eliegamite
Dr. Beattie, resident medical officer of the Auckland Hospital ,gave the following account of the wreck:— "The [?]gamite struck one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Elingamite Wreck. Dr. Middleton and Mr. Waters Save a Man's Life
There is as yet no news of the recovery of the remaining boat from the Elingamite, and all hope of recovering the shipwrecked people has been almost…
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The missing raft from the Elingamite has been picked up by H.M.S. Penguin. Eight of the occupants were dead, and the other eight alive…
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