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The total loss of a very well-known barque, the Alice Platt, is reported, and has been attended with loss of life A Lloyd's message says:—"An unsigned cablegram from i[?]uique, presumed from Lloyd's agent, states:—'Alice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following telegram was received this morning from Nelsons Bay : "Lightkeeper at Port Stephen reports by telephone this morning that a barquentine is ashore on the rocks sit South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILCANNIA, Saturday. -- The steamers Ethel and Ferret arrived from Men[?]ndie this morning. The Mundoo has passed Tilpa up stream…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two casualties along the coast have to be recorded to-day. Unfortunately, so little interest appears to be taken in those occurrences owing to their number lately that no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock a fire was discovered on the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company's steamer Bega, then lying at the companie's wharf off Shelley-street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A number of Chilian revolutionists, who had captured a man-of-war, fired upon and overhauled a British steamer. The rebels demanded cargo and gunpowder, but they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chilian rebels fired on a British steamer and attempted to seize her cargo. The captain remained defiant, and the rebels allowed him to proceed on his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The well-known coasting barque Amphitrite went ashore on Monday night on the north-east side of the Station Peak, Nelsons Bay. She has with her back broken. The masts are still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain W. H. Laycock, of the steamer Barrabool, reports:—On March 2, at 10 a.m., and 10 miles south of Cape St. George, and about four miles of shore, saw a piece of wreekage and some Kauri logs floating about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry was held by the Marine Board this afternoon into the circumstances attending the loss of the barquentine George Melville, which was wrecked on a reef off the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A message from San Francisco just to hand states that one of the most disastrous hurricane disturbances recorded for a considerable time swept over the North Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--lntelligence reached Newcastle this afternoon that the three-masted schooner Amphitrite, an old trader on the coast, had become a total wreck near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During Monday night the weather telegrams north of Sydney, and particularly northwards from Newcastle along the coast, described the weather as boisterous and a rough sea running. Amongst the coasting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the R.M.S. Dorunda was at Cooktown, on route to Brisbane, Captain Keating, the pilot in charge, reported having sighted a topsail schooner, painted white, ashore on N. [?], Claremont Islands. The name is not known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the saddest stories of the sea is that of the missing steamer Kakanni. The vessel went in the interests of [?]ity to rescue a number of sealers at the Macquarie Islnuds. and after embarking several of the men started on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WALTER GRAHAME, Mate of the schooner Amphitrite, and who was so severely injured in the so wreck of that vessel near Port Stephens on Monday arrived hero from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News from the islands recorded by the steamer Wainui to-day reports that very stormy weather has been experienced in various groups. Owing to the violence of the gale at Apia the barque…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE captain and crew of the three-masted schooner whose wreck was reported in the STAR a few days ago, arrived in Sydney by the Namoi from Newcastle this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The captain of the schooner Lancashire Las[?] at Thursday Island recently found on the extreme edge of the Barrier Reef the remains of an old wreck, and also a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THURSDAY ISLAND, Thursday -- The captain of the schooner Lancashire Lass reports finding an extremely old Spanish wreck on tho edge of tho Barrier Reef. One antiquated anchor and…
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