Shipwrecked Sailors
AUCKLAND, This Day.--The Hyacinth, war vessel, has arrived at Auckland, from Honolulu, and reports having on December 14, rescued from Maldon Island,…
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Wrecks at Maldon Island
The mail s.s. Mariposa brings news from Honolulu of the wreck of the German ship H[?]rman and Swedish barque Virgo at Maldon Island, a guano depot in the South Pacific. The captain, mate,…
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Captain Watt of the barquentine Yolande. reports that while at Long Island. Chesterfield Group, on October 2[?], he noticed. Inside the outer reef, about a quarter of a mile on the north side of the eastern end…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.--News is to hand that H.M.S. Hyacinth has arrived at Honolulu, having on board 24 sailors belonging to the German ship Hermann and the Swedish barque…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- The steamer Fijian, alter having had extensive repairs effected, came off the slip yesterday…
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AUCKLAND, This Day.-- The Hyacinth, war vessel, has arrived at Auckland, from Honolulu, and reports having on December 14, rescued from Maldon Island,…
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A terrible wreck is reported from the Black Sea. A vessel was caught in a violent storm and became a total wreck, 100 persons on board being lost…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.-About 9 o'clock on Tuesday night the powder magazine at the Cloncurry Copper Mine works, over a mile from the town, exploded. For some minutes before, smoke was…
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LONDON, January 9.-An inquiry has been held by the Board of Trade, at Glasgow, into the wreck of the barque Renfrewshire. The board decided that there was no evidence to show how…
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The report of the disastrous shipwreck in the Black Sea has been confirmed. The number of lives lost, as already stated, is 100…
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BRISBANE Wednesday.--A terrific dynamite explosion occurred in the Cloncurry magazine about 9 o'clock last night. The magazine is situated about a mile from the town. Several…
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LONDON, Tuesday Night.--News has been received of a terrible shipwreck in the Black Sea. Full details are not to hand, but it is reported that 100 persons perished…
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APIA, December 28.--The cutter owned by Arthur Young, trading between this port and Manua, an island about 1[?]0 miles from here arrived on Wednesday, with the shipwrecked,…
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An inquiry has been held by the Board of Trade, at Glasgow, into the wreck of the barque Renfrewshire. The board decided that there was no evidence to show…
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The monthly meeting of the National Shipwreck Society of New South Wales, was hold yesterday afternoon, at the Chamber of Commerce, Bridge-street. Mr. W. H. Buzacott occupied the chair, and there…
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LONDON, Tuesday Night.--News has been received of a terrible shipwreck in the Black Sea. Full details are not to hand, but it is reported that 100 persons perished…
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On the morning of the 4th instant the three-masted schooner Heath, bound from Sydney to Newcastle, went ashore on a surf rock off Cape Three Points, called the northernmost Bombola, at about twenty…
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The ketch Integrity, timber laden, bound from Camden Haven for Sydney, sprang a leak yesterday, about 25 miles north-east of Barranjoey lighthouse, and the crew being unable to keep the tons register, and was commanded by Captain John H. Ferguson. She was owned by Mr. Charles Henderson, of Pyrmont, and was built five years ago. She was insured for £750. The…
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LONDON, January 11.-Archibald Currie's new steamer Argus, which, has been built for the trade between Melbourne and Calcutta, has performed b trial trip. She attained a speed of 13 knots…
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LONDON, Thursday Night.--The new steamship Argus, built by the Palmer Shipbuilding Company to the order of Messrs. A. Currie and Co., of Melbourne, and…
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