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LONDON, Thursday Evening.--A lifeboat followed for five hours the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, belonging to the Hall Line. Ltd., Liverpool, which was drifting helplessly before…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The steamer Tathra foundered at sea on January 4, while on a trip Craig Cove, Ambrym, to Epl in the New Hebrides. Twenty-four live were lost—8 whits and 16 natives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE disaster to the P. and O. steamer Delhi, which, in a gale early on the morning of Decem-, ber 13, went ashore at Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A story which reads like a "Captain Kettle" romance, but is in reality the unvarnished tale of the experience of a crew of ordinary sailors navigating an ordinary steamer from Valencia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the gale which swept over Britain a lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, for five hours, until the tide, which was like a maelstrom, dashed the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Cunard liner Veria collided with and sunk an unknown steamer near Swansea, All hands on the steamer were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A river steamer blew up and sank at Kalama. The captain and two of the crew were killed. Nine escaped by means of lifeboats, several attired only in night garments…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"We did not dream of danger, there was nothing wrong with the ship, nor anything to indicate that disaster was to overtake us so soon."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Tathra, which foundered on January 4, was under charter from the Illawarra Company to Kerr Brothers, Vila. She was 483 tons gross, and was on a trip round the group, trading between Ambrya and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Only four sailors escaped from the wrecked shin Window, which, after being dashed on the rocks, went to pieces in a few minutes. It was impossible for the lifeboats to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A yacht belonging to Mr. Kellerman ran ashore, on the rocks at the Bottle and Glass, off Watson's Bay, yesterday afternoon. The pilot tender Carrington proceeded to her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADEN, Sunday.--The Italian gun-vessel Volturno (1155 tons) overhauled the British ship Africa, and removed 12 Turkish officers who were aboard, including Riza Bey, the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PARIS, Friday Evening.--The Italians have seized the French mail steamer Mano[?]ba, bound to Tunis. The vessel has been taken to Cagliari…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As has been already stated, two local tenders were received for the construction of a steel single-screw steamer (length 150 feet, speed 13 knots)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new steamer Opouri, the first steamer built for Messrs. Reese Bros., of Lyttelton, and which is intended for the New Zealand coastal trade, is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A river steamer was blown up at Kalama, and the captain and two of the crew were killed. Nine persons escaped from the sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The P. an O. Branch liner Commonwealth on arrival at Port Adelaide on Friday mornign reported having on Sunday, January 14, sighted [?] teamer in the Great Australian Bight, which was supposed to he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A peculiar accident happened on the Manly steamer Binngarra yesterday afternoon, two of the seamen, who were setting ready to rescue the crew of a capsized sailing boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cunard liner Veria collided with an unknown steamer near Swansea. The latter vessel sank[?] with all hands…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Further particulars in respect to the foundering of the steamer Tathra off Ambrym Island, New Hebrides, on the early morning of January 4, when 24 lives were lost, were made…
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