The Wreck of the Alert
MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A body, supposed to be one of the crew of the wrecked steamer Alert, has been washed ashore at Bream Creek, on the Queenscliffe side of the coast…
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Wrecks and Casualties In Australian trade, For months of July August and September see former issues. As appeared in the columns of the Daily Commercial News and Shipping List. OCTOBER
ALLOWRIE, s, struck on Bar Bateman's Bay, Oct 8 floated off uninjured. MARY WARNER, sch, went ashore Oct 10, at Gabo Island, since floated…
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Word was received in town to-day that the steamship Port Phillip, bound from Newcastle to Manilla, had signalled to the pilot station at Cape Cleveland that there…
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MELBOURNE, Dec. 29— A brief wire just received stated that the steamer Alert has been wrecked off Sorrento, and all hands drowned except one. LATER— The Alert went ashore off Jubilee…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- In connection with the grounding of the steamer Tunlerden as port Macdonnell recently, it was stated to the Marine Board to-day that there appeared…
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A TERRIBLE marine catastrophe was reported in Melbourne early on Friday morning, when a party of residents of Sorrento found a half drowned man on the back of the beach. After restoring him to…
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A terrible marine catastrophe waa discovered early this morning, when a party of residents of Sorrento found a half-drowned man on the back beach. After restoring him to life with some…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) the Loss of the Steamer Alert. Court of Marine Inquiry. Melbourne
At a meeting of the Marine Board to-day, it was decided that an investigation by the Court of Marine Inquiry should be held into the circumstances of the loss of the steamer Alert…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.— At a meeting of the Marine Board yesterday it was decided that an investigation by the Court of Marine Inquiry should be held into the circumstances of the loss…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.— In connection with the above catastrophe it was stated to the Marine Board yesterday that there appeared to be an inclination on the part of the Adelaide Marine…
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TOWNSVILLR, Saturday.— The lighthouse-keeper at Cape Cleveland has signalled to the steamer Tsinan, asking that vessel to report that he had seen some wreckage floating past the lighthouse…
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ALLOWRIE, s, struck on Bar Bateman's Bay, Oct 8 floated off uninjured. MARY WARNER, sch, went ashore Oct 10, at Gabo Island, since floated…
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It transpires that a mistake was made up north as to an alleged report: by the captain of the Port Phillip that he had seen a wreck to the southward of Cape Cleveland. The…
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TOWNSVILLE, Friday. -- It appears that the steamer Port Phillip did not signal to Cape Cleveland that she had sighted a wreck on the coast, but that the lighthouse-keeper at…
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The following telegram reached Auckland: "The brigantine Eillan Donan has been wrecked at New Caledonia. The crew were all saved." The Eillan Donan was a wooden vessel of 270 tons, built at…
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The Ville de la Ciotat, in command of Captain Fiaschi, on Saturday berthed at the Messageries Maritimes wharf from Marseilles. She is 34 days from her first port of departure—a fast passage. The Ville do la Ciotat left…
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Yesterday morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, a fire was discovered by the chief engineer on board the steamer Nairnshire, lying at present at Macllwraith's Wharf…
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PERTH, Monday.— A hurricane swept over Roeburne and Cossack on Friday, causing great damage. At Roeburne the English church was wrecked and many buildings were blown over,…
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LONDON, January 8.— Large quantities of wreckage nave been washed ashore at Margate, Kent, supposed to come from vessels wrecked in the British. Channel…
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