The WRECK of the "Buena Vista"
AS fine a ship as ever sailed the Southern Seas was the "Buena Vista." She was schooner-rigged, and…
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Quick Work Unloading a Steamer
Although the steamer Treverbyn, 5281 tons gross, was loaded to her plimsoll mark when she left her home port--Hull--she has discharged her…
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With the top half of her foremost snapped off, and hanging dangerously over her decks and her foresails torn to shreds, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner in Gale Top Mast Gone, Sails in Ribbons ILL=FATED W. H. Smith Call for Help Outside Heads
South Head Signal Station to-day picked up with its telescopes the American schooner W. H. Smith standing off the Heads, many Miles out to sea. The fore-top mast was gone and the fore-sail and jib were in ribbons…
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The Headquarters Brigade was called out to a fire on the Union Company's cargo steamer Kokiri shortly after 8 o'clock last night. The flames, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner W. H. Smith. Disabled in Storm
The schooner W. H. Smith, of 496 tons, which left Sydney for Tarawa with general cargo on Saturday, returned to port yesterday afternoon partially disabled…
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A fire occurred last night in a hold of the Union Steamship Company's steamer Kokirl, which is berthed at the foot of Druitt-street Brigades from fire headquarters under…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schooner Damaged W. H. Smith in Gale. Towed to Port
With her top foremast splintered and lashed to the rigging, and her headsails slashed to ribbons, the schooner W. H. Smith was towed into port by the tug Rollicker yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Battered by Gale Schooner Loses Her Topmast Sails Torn to Ribbons
Thirty miles off Sydney Heads on Sunday the American four-masted schooner W. H. Smith was struck by the southerly gale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mutiny at Sea Jap. Steamer's Plight Armed Men Take Charge Vancouver, Monday Evening
A dramatic story of the sea was revealed on the arrival of the steamer Ta[?]bu Maru, from kobe, Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mutiny at Sea. Japanese Steamer. Vancouver, Feb. 26
Responding to wireless requests, the police boarded the steamer Taibu Maru on arrival and arrested nine mutineers and 29 stowaways, who practically controlled the ship by…
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FORSTER, Tuesday. -- The boiler and engines have been recovered from the wrecked steamer Otus, and are now on the beach near the pilot station. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Off the Heads. Steamer's Movements. Waiting for Orders
During the past week or eight days the curiosity of residents of the ocean foreshores in the vicinity of the Heads has been aroused by the movemonts of a large cargo steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Delayed. Firemen Refuse Duty. Disputed Gangways. Adelaide
The Adelaide Steamship Company's Wandana, which usually sails at 3 p.m. from [?]rt Adelaide, carrying mails for Spencer Gulf ports, was held up on Tuesday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gales in England. Wrecks Reported. London, Feb. 28
Gales blowing at 70 miles an hour are raging [?] many districts in Great Britain. Even the [?]ard liner Berengaria, is storm-bound off the isle of Wight. A number of wrecks are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Mesna
The Norwegian steamer Mesna, which has been waiting off the Heads for cabled orders since February 20, received instruction, to proceed to Newcastle early yesterday morning. The Mesna left Albany, en…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Chinese Line First Steamer Fixed
A new Chinese line of steamers from Hongkong to Australia, will be inaugurated by the steamer Ling Nam, which is to leave Hongkong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned? Chinese in Harbor Strange Disappearance Id He Swim Ashore?
When the steamer Wonganella arrived from Nauru on Wednesday she carried 100 Chinese, who shipped for China. One of them…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mishap to Steamer
A broken easting in her bilge and feed pumps caused the steamer Nauru to return to Sydney yesterday for repairs, after having been some 12 hours…
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A fire broke out on the steamer Kinchela, which is moored at Allan Taylor's wharf. Abattoir Road. Pyrmont, at about 3.30 yesterday afternoon. The…
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