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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

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Grounding of the Steamer You Yangs. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 687

The steamer You Yangs, from Newcastle to Geelong whilst entering Corio Bay at high tide on Saturday, ran aground, and remained hard and fast all day. It is expected she will have to be relieved of part of her…

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Small-pox on Steamer. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 11

THE mall steamer Rome has arrived at Albany from London with small-pox on board. She has been quarantined. LATER.—No particulars have been received…

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Shipwreck—120 Lives Lost

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 9

NEW YORK, April 5.—Intelligence is to hand of an appalling shipwreck, accompanied by great miss of life, which occurred on the coast of Nova Scotia. The Ship Daniel Steinmann went ashore…

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Smallpox on the Mail Steamer. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Complete arrangements have been made for the accommodation of the passengers by the R.M.S. Rome on Torrens Island, isolation having been rendered necessary by an…

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Accident to the Steamer Queen of the South

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 4

The C. and R. R. S. N. Company's steamer Queen of the South, from Sydney to Kempsey, struck on the Macleay bar at 10 a.m. on Friday last, but was floated off again at 10 o'clock the same night, and came to an another anoher in the river. Soon…

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Wreck near Cape Bowling Green

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--The schooner C. Merton, which arrived on Saturday, from Townsville, reports having sighted a wreck on the 11th March, 22 miles from Cane Bowline Green. It was a…

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Smallpox on the Mail Steamer. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 April 1884 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Central Board of Health met this morning, and made final arrangements for victualling and nursing the patients at the Quarantine ground. Mrs Spellman, nurse,…

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A Steamer Sunk. Queen of the South in the Macleay. Her Cargo Much Damaged. Kempsey

Evening News · Tuesday 15 April 1884 · page 2

The steamer Queen of the South, in coming off the bar on Saturday night, struck on her anchor, and knocked a hole in her bottom. She sank in the river, two miles from the heads. The engine…

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A Ketch Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 April 1884 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Telegrams from Kangaroo Island intimate that the ketch Mimo[?]a, belonging to the [?]oonta Min's Company, timber laden, went ashore yesterday at Stoke[?] Bay, on…

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A Ketch Ashore. ADELAIDE

Evening News · Wednesday 16 April 1884 · page 4

Telegrams from Kangaroo Island report that the ketch Mimosa, belonging to the Moonta Mines Company, timber laden, went ashore on Monday in Stokes Bay, on the north coast of…

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The C. and R.r. S.n. Company's Steamer Queen of the South

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1884 · page 6

After the steamer Queen of the South was got off the bar at the Macleay River on Friday night last, it was discovered that she was leaking very badly, and in order to prevent her from sinking in deep water she was taken up the river, a short…

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Mail Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 5

SUEZ, April 16.--The Messageries Maritimes s.s. Melbourne, which left Marseilles on the 9th instant, passed here to-day, outwards…

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New Indo-Australian Steamer

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 37

ON February 14 there was launched from Messrs. Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company's Jarrow Yard a new steamer which has boon built to the order of Messrs, Arohibald Currie and Co., of Melbourne (says the…

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Arrival of the M.m. Steamer Caledonien. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The Mess[?]geries Maritime Co.'s steamer Caltdonien arrived from Mauritius to-day. She brings news to April 3. The following is a list of her passengers: -- Messrs…

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Small-pox on a Steamer. (By Telegraph, From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 11

The day after the Rome left Colombo, a lady passenger in the saloon was seized with smallpox, but in a mild form. On the arrival of the vessel at Albany the Rome was quarantined, but…

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Typhoid on R. M. Steamer. (By Telegraph, From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 12

THE Orient Co.'s R.M.S. Liguria, Captain. Conlon, arrived to-day from London. The passage occupied 41 days. There are 374 passengers on board, including Mr. and Mrs. Dade ana three…

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Arrival of the M.m. Steamer Caledonien at Adelaide. (Reuter's Telegram.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 12

The Messageries Maritimes steamer Caledonien arrived to-day, from Marseilles March 12. The following is a list of her passengers:—Messrs. Walker, Montefiore, F. Bailey, Crespin, Abondid, Craine,…

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Barque Lanarkshire Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1884 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--The chief officer of the barque Lanarkshire reports the vessel ashore in Flinder's Passage. A tug left Townsville yesterday to render assistance…

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The Loch Ard Wreck Fund. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 2

The City Council has finally settled the Loch Ard wreck fund. It has been invested for five years for the benefit of Thomas Pearce, midshipman, who saved the only surviving passenger,…

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The Loch Ard Wreck Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The City Council has finally settled the Lock Ard Wreck Fund. It has been invested for five years for the benefit of Thomas Pearce, midshipman, who saved the only…

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