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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

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The Wreck of the S.s. Waihora. Melbourne, 3 P.m

Globe · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 8

The Southern Cross and Flinders arrived this morning with the passengers and mails of the Union Company's wrecked steamer Waihora. They presented…

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The Waihora Wreck. the Horses Uninjured

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 6

HOBART, Friday.—The Wairarapa on her way to New Zealand first called at Hobart, and passed the Waihors on her way down. The officers are naturally disinclined to give information till the special inquiry…

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Wreck of the SS. Waihora

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 401

A telegram posted at the Exchange on Thursday morning, and dated Melbourne, Thursday, states that the steamer Waihora struck Eddystone rock at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday. The steamer Southern Cross…

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Wreck of the S.S. Waihora. All Hands Saved

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 14

Considerable excitement prevailed in Sydney Thursday, when news was received that the Union Company's fine steamship Waihora had struck on the Eddystone Point, on the south-west coast of…

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The Wreck of the S.s. Waihora. Hobart, This Day

Globe · Monday 22 February 1886 · page 5

The Southern Cross, which called at Swan Island on Saturday, reports that the preparations for launching the Waihora are forward, and that Captain M'Gee…

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The Wreck of the Waihora. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1886 · page 6

HOBART, Sunday.--The latest news from the Waihora is to the effect that a diver has been down. He found a rent in one of the plates between the fore and main compartments. A…

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Arrival of the M.m. Steamer Yarra. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.--The Messageries Maratimes steamer Yarra, Captain Paquelot, from Marseilles January 13, arrived to-day. She broke some part of her serew-blades in…

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FLOATING of the Steamer Waihora. Arrival in the Yarra. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 8

The Union Steamship Company's steamer Waihora, which was recently beached at Swan Island after striking a rock on the Tasmanian coast while on her voyage from New Zealand to Melbourne, arrived at the…

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Wreck of a Ketch and Loss of Four Lives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1886 · page 11

From the New Zealand papers we learn that by the wreck of an Auckland ketch, the Fanny Kelly, bound from Auckland to Mongonui, Mrs. Turnbull, the wife of a hotelkeeper at Mongonui, and her three daughters…

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Immigrant Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 February 1886 · page 5

London, Tuesday.--The chartered s.s. Aberdeen loft Plymouth on February 23 with passengers equal to 556 adults…

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The Wreck of the Murray. Inquiry by the Marine Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1886 · page 4

A meeting of the Marine Board was held yesterday morning to inquire into the wreck of the paddle steamer Murray, 271 tons, which struck on a rock three miles south of the old bar at the Manning River on February 9…

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The Wreck of the S.s. Murray. Marine Board Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1886 · page 3

The Marine Board yesterday held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the s.s. Murray on the Manning River bar on the 18th inst. There were…

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Wreck of a Ketch and Loss of Four Lives

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 433

From the New Zealand papers we learn that by the wreck of an Auckland ketch, the Fanny Kelly, bound from Auckland to Mongonui Mrs. Turnbull, the wife of, a hotelkeeper at Mongonui, and her three daughters…

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Loss of an American Schooner. the Lithgow Relief Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 5

The schooner George Noble, which arrived yesterday from the Kingsmill Group, reports the loss of an American schooner, said to be the W. H. Stevens, at Butaritari, in January last. A numerously attended and enthusiastic, though by no means a crowded meeting, held in the Town-hall last night, voted resolutions of sympathy to the relatives of the miners…

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Wreck of the W. H. Stevens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 12

The W. H. Stevens, a fore-and-aft schooner, of 145 tons register, was wrecked at Butarltari (Gilbert Group), on the 5th of January, while bound from San Francisco to the above-named island, with trade. Captain White reports that a strong…

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A Schooner Foundered

Evening News · Monday 1 March 1886 · page 4

The President of the Marine Board received at [?] o'clock today the following telegram from the priot at Trial Bay:—" Captain of the schooner Glossarial reports that his vessel foundered last night about six…

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Foundering of a Schooner. Arakwood, This Day

Globe · Monday 1 March 1886 · page 5

The schooner Glossariel, owned by Mr. Pigers, of Richmond River, foundered on Saturday evening, about 7 o'clock six miles off Manning…

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The Stranded Steamer Glaucus. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1886 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Saturday. -- The steamer Victory has returned from King's Reef. She reports that the pumps on the wrecked steamer Glaucus have been working…

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Wreck of the Schooner Flora. All Hands Saved

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 5

The three-masted schooner Flora, belonging to Mr. M. Marshall, of Liverpool, and sailed by Captain Chichester, has been wrecked at Kadavu Reef, Fiji. News of the disaster reached…

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Foundering of a Schooner. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 5

PORT MACQUARIE, Monday.--The schooner Glosnrie foundered on Sunday inst abreast the Manning River bar. She was 85 tons register, and was hound for Sydney…

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