A Schoonfr Wrecked
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1885 · page 6
A telegram was posted outside the Telegraph Office on Saturday, stating that a schooner like the Fanny was ashore on the North Beach at Port Stephens. she is high and dry at low water. The crew [?] saved…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 5
Information was received in Sydney yesterday that the steamer Glendower, which left Newcastle on April 12 for Calcutta with 3200 tons of coal, bad struck on the D Reef, near Cookstown, during…
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Evening News · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 6
On Saturday evening Mr. Roderick, ship builder, Eagleton, Williams River, launched a new vessel built to the order of Mr. E. Davis, Sydney. She will be rigged as a…
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Evening News · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 6
A telegram has been received to the effect that the steamer Glendower, bound from Newcastle to Calcutta went ashore on what are known as the "D" Reefs on Saturday night. The vessel is…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 April 1885 · page 6
By the courtesy of Captain W. A. Curphey, of the Colonial Sugar Company's s.s. Fiona, we are placed in possession of latest files of Fiji papers, and from the Suva 7imes, of the 11th instant, the following particulars of the loss of the british barque…
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Evening News · Friday 24 April 1885 · page 4
The Island crew of the German schooner Maria Edgell have on three occasions been convicted in the Water Police Court of combined refusal of the lawful commands of the captain of the vessel. On their first…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 885
The vessel which went ashore on the D Reef, near Cooktown, on Saturday night, is the steamer Glendower, from Newcastle to Calcutta, with coals. The gunboat Raven, which went to her assistance, returned…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 13
During the trip of the steamer Newcastle from Sydney, last night, Judge Murray, who was a passenger, had a silver watch and a gold albert chain abstracted from his waistcoat pocket, which…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 885
The barque Pladen, owned by a Hamburg firm, bound from Levuka to Falmouth, has become a total wreck on Wangaros Island, one of the Chatham group. The crew of the vessel were saved…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 12
Information has been received in Rockhampton that the barque Bothwell Castle has been wrecked on a reef at Nga[?]ik, in the Northern Pacific, in latitude 5deg 47min, longitude 157deg 32min…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 12
The south-west gale continues with frequent heavy squalls of rain. The brig Lalla Rookh returned to port. She left here for Sydney on Thursday with about 200 tons of coal. She…
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Evening News · Monday 27 April 1885 · page 4
LONDON, April 26.—Several corpses have been washed ashore at Cape Ortegal, on the coast of Spain. It is believed that they are the bodies of those who were on board the Eastern and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 April 1885 · page 7
Several corpses have been washed ashore at Cape Ortegal, on the coast of Spain. It is believed they are the bodies of those who were on board the Eastern and Australian…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 April 1885 · page 4
The New Zealand Herald gives the following particulars of the new steamer Coptic (chartered by the British Government as a cruiser in these seas) which arrived at Auckland on April 17:—" The Coptic, a sister ship to both the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Breaks Down. Vexatious Delay. Melbourne
Evening News · Tuesday 28 April 1885 · page 6
During an excursion made by the steamer Lonsdale, the machinery broke down in the Bay yesterday, and it was half-past 10 p.m. before the passengers were landed at Sandridge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bombardment of Makung. Six Hundred Chinese Reported Killed. Detaining a Steamer. an Armistice. Brisbane
Evening News · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 5
The steamer Canton, which arrived at Cooktown, from Hongkong, on the 28th, brings the following news:— The French corvette D'Estaing arrived at, Hongkong on April 2, and brought news of the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 8
From particulars supplied by Mr. J. N. M'Ivor, the second officer of the Bothwell Castle, the Brisbane Corrier is [?] to give the following account of the wreck of the Bothwell Castle, last on the Valientes Islands, North…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 May 1885 · page 6
By the steamer Rockton, which arrived on Saturday from Fijiand Noumea, news has come to hand of the loss of the schooner Flirt, a well-known trader between this port and the Islands. The vessel was owned bv Mr. Henry P. Palser,of this city, and was…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 May 1885 · page 6
The schooner Nightingale entered the Hends on Saturday evening and sailed up to Neutral Bay, mooring to the Messageries Maritimes Company's buoy at about half-past 5 o'clock. Her appearance from a distance was not unusual,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 May 1885 · page 5
By the arrival of the A.S.N, Company's steamer Rockton from Fiji, and through the courtesy of Mr H. P. Pa[?]er of this city, we have news of the lots of the sch[?]ner Flirt, of Sydney, at [?],…
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