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This afternoon the new passenger steamer Kapunda, the latest addition to the fleet of the Melbourne Steamship Company, Limited, will arrive at Sydney on her malden voyage,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The inquiry concerning the Penguin disaster was resumed to-day. Captain Vickerman, master of the steamer Kennedy, said he had had 28 years' experience…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--At the inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Penguin to-day the evidence tendered was principally that of shipmasters familiar with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Particulars of the wrecks and other other shipping casualties which have occurred during 1908 have just been published by the Department of Navigation. The disasters involved the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle pilot steamer Ajax arrived in Sydney this morning. She is to undergo her periodical over[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sydney Marine Underwriters' Association received a cable yesterday stating that the steamer Flensburg was slightly damaged by colision while bound from Antwerp to Hamburg…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sydney Marino Underwriters Association received a cable yesterday stating that the steamer Flensburg was slightly damaged by collision, while bound from Antwerp to Hamburg,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Customs officials yesterday made a seizure of a case containing 160 tins of opium on the North German Lloyd wharf at the Quay. The case was discovered by Officer Dansey amongst…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Thursday.--The Inquest into the death of the victims of the Penguin disaster was opened to-day. The evidence given was practically a repetition of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After having served nearly 20 years with the Yarmouth lifeboat crew, Mr. Walter Brandish, the veteran coxswain, has retired. The "Old Vicar," as he is called, joined the Yarmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French barque Surcouf, from Thlo, New Caledonia, November 13, to Glasgow, is ashore in a bad position at Tara…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Albert Cork (43), described as a coachman, was charged at the Water Court, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., with stealing from the person of John Thompson a lady's gold watch and the sum of £3 12s 6d in money…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →LONDON, Friday Evening.—As the Hamburg-American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was about to leave Hamburg for New York to-day, the gangway broke under the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ALTHOUGH Germany cannot at present be regarded as a serious competitor with England for the honor of possessing the biggest vessel afloat, her mercantile…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A graphic story of the terrible privations suffered by the crew of the trawler Washington, which was wrecked in December on the coast of Iceland, about 30 miles from Reykjavik, was…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →On Thursday last Customs officers seized 100 tins of opium on board the German steamer Prinz Sigismund at Circular Quay. The opium was discovered in a cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As a number of the people were leaving the steamer Kaiserin Augusta Victoria at Hamburg prior to her departure the gangway broke,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Redbridge arrived at Bunbury from Calcutta this morning, flying the yellow flag the officers fearing that there was smallpox on board. Captain Smith died…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The nautical inquiry into the loss of the steamer Penguin was opened in New Zealand on Monday. The captain contended that he set a course that made him absolutely safe under normal conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The North Coast S.S. Company's steamer Burrawong, when attempting to cross in at the Manning River from Sydney at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, grounded on the South Beach. The…
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