Wreck in the English Channel. 18 Lives Lost. London, Feb. 2
The steamer Channel Queen was wrecked on the Isle of Guernsey during a dense fog last night. A panic occurred among the passengers, and in launching…
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Wreck Off the Guernsey Coast. Eighteen Persons Drowned
LONDON, Wednesday. -- The steamer Channel Queen, belonging to the Plymouth, Channel Islands, and Brittany Steamship Company, was wrecked last night off the…
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The work of discharging and fumigating tho cargo of the French mail steamer Caledonian, on which a case of small-box occurred, was accomplished yesterday…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- The work of discharging and fumigating the cargo from the French mail steamer Caledonion, on which a case of smallpox occurred, was carried out to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tongan Affairs the Wesleyan Missions. Arrival of the Steamer Ovalau at New Castle. Newcastle
Among the passengers by the steamer Ovelau, which arrived it Newcastle from the islands to-day, [?] route for Sydney, was the Rev. J. E. Moulton, jun., a son of the [?]tev. J. E. Moulton, principal of…
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Same anxiety is being felt in shipping circles for the safely of the steamer St. George, which is coming from Ayrvia Adelaide to Sydney. The St. George signalled at Wilson's Promontory at…
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The steamier Baluchistan, which was recently seized in the Thames and afterwards released, When she sailed for the Persian Gulf, has again, been seized, this time by H.M.S. Lapwing, off…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wreck of the Oakburn. Totally Lost on a Voyage From Newcastle
By yesterday's mail the agenta of the ship Oikburn, which loaded a cargo of coal for Antofagasta, received details of the evidence given at the inquiry held at Antofagasta before tliB BrlUi-h Vico-Conttul and the mantera of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wreck of the Mataura
Some excitement was caused hat week by the news that the flue steamer Mataura of the N.Z. Shipping Company had struck on an uncharted rock in the Straits of Magellan, and gone down off…
Continued on Trove, page 285 →A Wreck at Cronulla
There is always something romantic, as well as something fascinating, in a shipwreck. The very word conjures up au endless series of pictures of tragedy, mischance, daring, and comedy. There was…
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THE steamer Channel Queen, belonging to the Plymouth, Channel Islands, and Brittany Steamship Company, was wrecked last week off the coast of Guernsey, eighteen lives being…
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The steamer Victoria, of the A.U.S.N. Company line which put in at Eden bound from Kaipara, N. Z., to Melbourne with a cargo of timber on the 23rd ultimo, resumed voyage on Friday night after having taken in 50 tons coal…
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EDEN, Saturday.--The steamer Victoria left for Melbourne last night at 10.30, alter taking in 60 tons of coal from the steamer Tekapo. During the week the Victoria had 130 tons of sand put…
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Thick, smoky weather, the outcome of the bush fires along the Victorian coast, was the cause of the delay to the steamer Saint George on her passage round from Adelaide. The vessel arrived…
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On Saturday last the new steamer Saint George, which was purchased at home by Mr. W. T. Yeager for the Richmond River trade, arrived in port after a very good passage for a vessel of her proportions to make all the way…
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The ketch Candidate, which arrived at Nelson's Bay this morning, reports that two ketches are ashore about one mile south of the wreck of the Fltzroy. The sea was…
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NELSON'S BAY, Monday.--Captain J. W. Johnson, of the ketch Candidate, reports that he cleared Sydney Heads at 1 a.m. on Sunday, and steered the usual course, with a fresh, fair wind, the baze…
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At the committee meeting of the National. Shipwreck Relief Society held yesterday the [?] of the Min[?] and the res[?] of C[?] Gallant by Captain E. Ga[?] of the [?] Alva[?] came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Koonya. Marine Board Inquiry
The Marine Board commenced an inquiry yesterday afternoon into the circumstances attending the loss of the [?].s. Koonya, on a reef on the north head of Cronulla Beach. Captain Nicholson, in command…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Koonya. Marine Board Inquiry. a Mystery
Yesterday the Marine Board held an inquiry relative to the wreck of the Koonya, which took place early on the morning of January 25 two or three miles north of Port Hacking. The president…
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