The Wreck of the Lavinia
In an interview at Brisbane yesterday the mate of the schooner Lavinia, which was wrecked during the recent gale off Magnetic Island. stated that about thirteen wiles from Townsville the…
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Slopping Casualties. Wreck of Ship Nineveh
News reached Sydney yesterday that the well known clipper ship Nineveh, owned by Messrs. Goodlet and Smith of this port, had become a total wreck while on a voyage from Puget Sound…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) the Wreck of the Lavinia. Brisbane
The mate of the schooner Lavinia, which was wrecked during the recent gale off Magnetic Island, was interviewed in Brisbane yesterday. He stated that about 13 miles from Townsville the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Nineveh. a Sydney Timber Ship. The Crew Saved
A cable was received in Sydney this morning by the owners, Messrs. Goodlet and Smith, that their ship Nineveh, bound from Puget Sound to Sydney with a freight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping Casualties. a Well-known Aberdeen Clipper Wrecked. All Hands Saved and Landed at San Francisco
The erstwhile Aberdeen clipper ship Nineveh, owned by Messrs. Goodlet and Smith, of this city, has been wrecked off the Californian coast. News of the disaster reached Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hurricane at the Tongan Group. the Island of Hapat Devastated. Numerous Shipping Disasters the Woosung and West Australian Blown Ashore. a German Schooner Wrecked Arrival of the Shipwrecked Crews in Sydney
Our Tongan correspondent writes:--"The Friendly Islands have not escaped the hurricane this season. On January 3 a very heavy blow passed over the Hapal portion…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Revolt in Cuba. Filibustering Steamer Wrecked. Another Rebel Victory
LONDON, January 29— An American steamer which had left New York for Cuba on a filibustering expedition, and was being pursued by United States cruisers, in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storms in Queensland. Townsville Devastated. Enormous Damage Done. Steamers Driven Ashore. Many Lives Lost
BRISBANE (Q.), January 30— A great storm is reported to be raging in the north. This is the disturbance " Sigma," which was forecasted by the Queensland Weather Burean some days…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ILLUSTRATIONS. Hurricane on the Coast of Queensland. Heavy List of Shipwrecks. Much Loss of Life
On the night of the 30th ultimo, telegrams of a most startling nature reached Sydney from Northern Queensland. "A fearful storm," were the terms of our first message, "is raging at…
Continued on Trove, page 280 →The Scene of the wrecks
Cleveland Bay is sheltered to the east and south-east by Cape Cleveland and the land to the southward to north-west and west by Magnetic Island. Townsville, situated at the mouth and…
Continued on Trove, page 280 →Wreck of the Wollumbin. NEWCASTLE, Jan. 30
Inspector Lynch received a wire from the police in charge of the wreck of the steamer Wollumbin to-day that the underwriters had sent four men to take charge of the wreck. The police were…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →An Island Cruise. Arrival of the Ovalau. Hurricane at the Friendly Group. Wrecks of Three Ships
The Union Co's steamship, Ovalau, which returned from her South Sea Island cruise to-day, brought news of a destructive hurricane at the Friendly Group of Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →How the Woosung Was Wrecked
Captain Schade, the master of the Woosung, told a "Daily Telegraph" reporter that the hurricane was the worst he had ever experienced during his lengthy career…
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The tug Sir William Wallace leaves Sydney to-night for the stranded steamer Wol-lumbin, at Norah Head. News received from the vessel states that the salvage…
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The following is the Marine Board's return, giving full particulars of all wrecks on the coast of New South Wales during the year 1895: January 7, Emma Matilda, cutter; 12 tons;…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Ashore at the Richmond
The N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Tomki, when crossing in to the Richmond from Sydney at 6.30 last evening, took the ground. She is now on the sandspit, between the north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. the New Steam Lifeboat
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The "Barr Smith" lifeboat arrived at the Semaphore per the steamer Hubbuck on Saturday. Mr. Clarkson. chief engineer of the gunboat…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—The steamer Waitapa, trading on the coast between Wellington and Patea, was completely gutted by fire on Saturday whilst on the patent slip. She was taken…
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The steamer Sarah Fenwick, from Sydney, went aground on the north beach at the Bellinger River on Saturday. She, however, floated oft with the flood tide,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Franklin in a Cyclone. Wreck of the Schooner Lavina-- a Sailor Killed
The steamer Franklin, of the Adelaide Steamship Company's line, which arrived on Saturday from Queensland, was caught in the recent cyclone which swept over…
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