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The Timaru correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that on January 15 the ship City of Cashmere had become all but a total wreck. The pin of the shackle of her anchor came out, and before a second anchor was let go, she drifted nearly a mile into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Ajax and Goolwa returned last night at 10.30. Inspector Thorpe reports "That the engines and after part of the vessel appear to bo full of water, but it is believed that her bottom is uninured. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INTELLIGENCE was received on Monday morning that the steamer Fiona, under charter to the A.S.N. Company, and on a voyago from Sydney to Brisbane, went ashore during a fog at 4 o'clock that morning in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Colonial Sugar Co.'s steamer Fiona, Captain Curphy chartered by the A.S.N. Co., which left on Saturday for Brisbane. Maryborough, and Rockhampton, is ashore five miles South of Seal Rocks Point. The steamer City of Grafton is standing by her to…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →Both the Ajax and the tug Goolwa returned from the stranded steamer Fiona at a late hour last night, the former bringing 20 bags Englishmails, leaving 40 others to be brought on by the steamer Secret. The stranded steamer has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Timaru correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that on January 15 the ship City of Cashmere had become all but a total wreek. The pin of the shackle of her anchor came out, and before a second anchor was let go, she drifted nearly a mile into…
Continued on Trove, page 199 →Some wreckage found at the south end of Garden Island, and the discovery of portions of the remains of a man in the stomach of a largo shark caught off Fromantle, suggest the wreck of a ship on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Fiona is reported to be opening underneath and sanding up, with the water washing over the chartroom. Some of the after-part of the vessel has broken away, and a large quantity of fresh goods from her,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Both the Ajax and the tug Goolwa returned from the stranded steamer Fiona at a late hour last night, the former bringing 20 bags Englishman's, leaving 40 others to be brought on by the steamer Secret. The stranded steamer has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 220 →The steamer Fiona is reported to be opening underneath and sanding up, with the water washing over the chartroom. Some of the after-part of the vessel has broken away, and a large quantity of fresh goods from her,…
Continued on Trove, page 240 →Some wreckage found at the south end of Garden Island, and the discovery of portions of the remains of a man in the stomach of a large shark caught off Fremantle, suggest the wreck of a ship on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 231 →At a meeting of the Marine Board held yesterday afternoon Captain Curphey,of the stranded steamer Fiona, was called upon to show cause why his certificate should not be suspended. Additional…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Romeo, from Hamburg, has gone ashore in a bight three miles west of Ram Head. She was bound for Sydney, but is likely to become a total wreek. All the crew are saved, and are now on Gabo. She is 641 tons register, and sailed on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The captain of the R.M.S. Rosetta reports that while passing Ram Head at about 8 o'clock yesterday morning he observed a large iron vessel, barque-rigged, ashore in n bight three miles to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 16.—The steamship Bahama has been wrecked in the Atlantic. 20 lives lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Bahama has been wrecked in the Atlantic. Twenty lives lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government steamer Despatch arrived from Melbourne at 8.30, and sailed again at 10 o'clock this morning. Captain Anderson reports that seas are making a clean breach over the barque Romeo, and that the masts and sails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Berry and the crew of the wrecked vessel Borneo arrived in Sydney on Saturday by tho s.s. Skyro. The following is a narrative account of the whole affair. The Romeo, 640 tons register, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Skyro[?] which arrived from Adelaide at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, in[?]uded amongst her passengers Captain Berry, of the barque Rom[?]co, his wife, two children, and crew of the barque, num bering 19 in all having been taken on board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Fiona is in the same position, with her stern under water. They are getting cargo out of her forehold rapidly on wire hawsers. Nothing can be recovered from her after-hold at present. The weather continues…
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