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462 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 24
There is nothing fresh to report of any consequence with respect to the wrecks at the Heads. The George Roper and Blackboy are still aground on the reef. The weather is now very rough. To-morrow the syndicate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is no material alteration in the position of the stranded vessels, George Roper and Blackboy, on the Lonsdale Reef. Both have stood. the severe, weather bravely. The George Roper appears to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was considerable excitement to-day at Point Lonsdale, when it was Been that the Blackboy was afloat. After drifting a little, however, she settled down. The George Roper is in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy weather at the Heads has completely smashed up the steamer Blackboy. All day yesterday the sea broke over both, vessels with unusual violence, causing them to away and roll…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 300 people from Geelong visited the scene of the recent wrecks at the Heads to-day. At 5 o'clock this evening the billows were running very high, covering the hulls of both vessels. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Blackboy floated off Point Lonsdale reef at flood tide to-night, and bank. The only parts of her now seen above water are the mast and a little portion of theupper deck. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ship George Roper still lies on the reef at the Heads. The weather was too rough to-day to approach her. The water has been making great hav[?] in the ship, and she has been much strained. The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The ship Chaudiere, 470 tons, timber laden, is reported a total wreck. She went ashore last Wednesday off Cape Hamelin, on the west coast, being from the Murchison River. She was built at…
Continued on Trove, page 59 →All hope of removing the George Roper from Point Lonsdale reef, on which she lies at the Heads, has now been abandoned. While the weather remained fine every effort was made to keep the pumps at work. The…
Continued on Trove, page 63 →There is little of importance to chronicle regarding the wrecks on Point Lonsdale Reef. Hardly anything of the Blackboy is visible above water. An inspection was made of her from a fishing boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE was a very large attendance on Saturday at the sale of the wreck of the four-masted ship George roper, and the bidding commenced briskly, starting at £1000. It was run up to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire occurred early this morning on board the steamer Arakoon at Mr. D. L. Brown's wharf. A constable on duty at South Brisbane saw the flames and raised an alarm. Several firemen and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Rook, which has arrived in Hobson's Bay from Sydney, reports a narrow escape from foundering. The captain states after rounding Cape Howe on the 8th instant a heavy gale was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further reports have been received concerning the perilous passage of the steamer Rook, which has been in difficulties on her voyage round from Sydney, and they show that one of her portholes was stove in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The George Roper situ nous together on point, Lonsdale reef. Yesterday a considerable quantity of carge was transhipped into the steamers waiting by means of small boats, the sea being too…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Rook, which has arrived in Hobson's Bay, had as extremely narrow escape from foundering when near Wilson's Promontory, on Friday last (says the "Argus). The vessel, which is under the command of Captain Chinn,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather is still too rough to-day to allow steamers to go alongside the wrecked ship, George Roper. Small boats, however, boarded her, and some cargo was transhipped to a steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The president of the Marine Board received a telegram this morning from Newcastle stating that the Santa Cruz, ketch, timber laden, outward bound for Sydney, went ashore off the end of the northern breakwater. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 18.—The Orient steamer Lusitania, which left Sydney May 25, arrived at Plymouth this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July 18—The B.I.S.N. Co.'s steamer Duke of Westminster has arrived at Port Said, bound for Queensland ports…
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