A Steamer Foundered
LONDON, October 24.—The steamer Clan Macduff has foundered off the Welsh coast, and forty-two of those on board were drowned…
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484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 25
Jack Ashore
Jack (ashore, on a jibbing horse): Hi! mate, what's up with this here craft? she won't shift a point! Passer-by: I think, my friend, she's an out-and-out 'jib' you've got hold of…
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The ketch Violet, from Sydney for the Manning, in ballast, was safely towed into Port Macquarie by the Mary Cochrane, steamer, on Thursday, she having picked her up 50 miles east of the Manning. It…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wreck of the Steamer Brisbane. Port Darwin
The E. and A. Company's Brisbane has shifted about 50 feet from where she first grounded and struck at low water. She broke her back. All the lighters are going down to save the cargo. The passengers and…
Continued on Trove, page 743 →The Missing Steamer Balclutha
The steamers sent in quest of the Balc[?] by the Governments of New South Wales and Victor[?] having reterned to their respective ports after an abortive search, it may not now be inopportune to publish the names of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seizure of a German Steamer
LONDON, October 28.—A German steamer has been seized in the Dardanells. She had 40 tons of dynamite on board, intended for Odessa and Tagaurog, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the Steamer Sorata. Semaphore
The Orient steamship Sorata arrived this afternoon from Plymouth. The following is her passenger list:—First saloon: Mr. and Mrs. J. Lemel, Mr. R. Burstal, the Misses Brown, Mr. E. P. Ludlaw, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 752 →Supposed Loss of the Steamer Balclutha. Melbourne
A painful sensation has been caused in Melbourne owing to the want of information respecting the intercolonial steamer Balclutha, which left Melbourne on Wednesday, the 19th, at 10.30 p.m. She passed the…
Continued on Trove, page 752 →The Steamer Argyle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Grafton
The sun[?]ken steamer Arg[?], which was recently raised, was docke[?]d in the Coloair [?] Sugar Company's dry dock, Harwood Island, on We[?]nsday. The principal damage was foun[?] to be the carr[?]ing away of the sternpost, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tee Late Gale Another Shipwreck. Loss of the Barque Omba. Newcastle
WHILE the tug Leo was out yesterday afternoon, cruising near the Nine Mile Beach, Redhead, she came across a quantity of wreckage, consisting of round cedar table, with tight-fitting green baize…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Barque Schoolboy.—loss of Live. Nelson's Bay
Portions of the barque Schoolboy have been found ashore at One-mile Beach, near Port Stephens. The beech is strewn with wreckage, and a boat, evidently belonging to the barque, was found with a man lying dead near it. There can be slight…
Continued on Trove, page 749 →Wreck of the Barque Glimpse. Three Lives Lost. Terrible Sufferings of the Survivors. Seven Days in an Open Boat Without Food or Water
Yesterday morning on the steamship of the steamship Coonanbara, from Newcastle, it soon became known among the shipping that the barque [?]mpse had been lost at sea, and the second mate drowned ; that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Total Wreck Reported. Loss of the Barque Omba. [By Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle
It is feared that the barque Omba, bound from Batavia for Victorian ports, became a total wreck eff the coast during the recent gale. The captain of the tug Leo reports that when he was half way between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Wreck and Loss of Life. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle, Friday Evening
Particulars have been received here to[?] night of another laroentable wreek, which point to the [?]clusion that the unfortunate vessel is the barque Omba, 336 tons register, which left Batavia on August 6, bound for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipping Disasters. Wreck of the Barque Glimpse— Three Lives Lost
One of the most painful marine casualties that have occurred off the Australian coast for same time happened on Thursday, October 20, some 240 miles from Cape Howo, when the barque Glimpso foundered, after passing through…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loss of the Ketch Ben
It is reported that the Ketch Ben is missing. She left Newcastle more than a week ago, and three large sweep cars apparently belonging to a ketch of her class have been washed up on the beach…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Missing: Steamer Balclutha
By telegram from Melbourne we learn that the Despatch arrived at Gabo Island on Thursday morning, when Captain Anderson heard from the lighthouse keeper (Kermode) and the telegraph operator…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tee Search for the Missing Steamer Balclutha
No tidings of the missing steamer Balcintha have yet been received, and all hope of her ultimate safety, or that of the crew, has been reluctantly abandoned. The steamer Captain Cook returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Gale and the Steamer Hunter
A correspondent writes from Bateman's Bay, under date of October 27:—"I noticed in a recent issue of the Echo 'that the late gale was considered almost a second Dande— nonggale.' I consider the seas were more thanany vessel could…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Disaster to the Steamer Konig Nederlands. London, Oct. 30
The steamer Delcomyn, which sailed from Melbourne on the 6th September, fell in with 19 survivors of the steamer Konig Nederlands (King of the Netherlands), which foundered…
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