No Hope For Wrecked Port Elliot Salving Cargo Auckland
The Commonwealth and Dominion steamer Port-Elliot, which ran ashore at East Cape, is certain to become a total wreck…
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The Wrecked Steamer Port Elliot
THE steamer Port Elliot became a total wreck on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Rachel Cohen Schooner's Tragic End Burnt at Darwin Darwin
The auxiliary wooden schooner Rachel Cohen was totally destroyed by fire today at daylight. Residents near the shore observed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer Pruth Fast on Reef BRISBANE
The Vacuum Oil Company's steamer Pruth, of 4000 tons, which ran aground on Natarah Reef, at the entrance to Port Moresby, on New Year's Eve, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Hannover. Delayed Through Trouble with Crew
The Continent-Australia Line steamer Hannover was scheduled to leave port at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Hamburg and other Continental ports. Trouble arose with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Pruth. Still Stranded. Poor Prospects of Refloating. Port Moresby
The steamer Pruth still lies on Natarah Reef. The tug Coringa arrived from Brisbane on Saturday with the marine superintendent of Messrs. Macdonald, Hamilton (Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Heroic Rescue From Boiling Surf Launch Wrecked Wellington,(m.k)
The stuff of White person are made was [?] yesterday, when a 17—years—old [?] named J. Heal [?] a was friends a reck in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Port Elliot Wreck. Cargo Being Lightered
A message from Wellington states that 69 members of the crew of the" ill-fated C. & D. steamer Port Elliot have arrived at Wellington by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy's Gallant Effort Man Saved From Wreck Wellington (N.z.)
A 32-foot oil launch, while crossing Cook strait yesterday, from Picton to Wellington, was caught in a southerly gale and rendered helpless through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident in Dock. Damage to Steamer
Last November, in the Admiralty Division, the Federal Steam Navigation Company, Limited, the owners of the steamer Devon, sued the Mersey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The L24. Great Diving Feat. Wreck Abandoned. London, Jan. 15
Reuter is informed from Portland that it is learned authoritatively that the local naval officials have now definitely decided that the wreck examined by the diver yesterday is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wrecked by Rebels American Cruiser Lighthouses Unlit Washington
The light cruiser Tacoma, ordered by the Navy Department to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to restore cable communication, cut by the rebels, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Ashore Wyalong on Peak's Reef GOSFORD
The steamer Wyalong ran ashore at Peak's Reel, off East Gosford, at 8 a.m. yesterday. Efforts made during the day to get…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Sussex. Wellington
The steamer Sussex will be released from quaranline to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →AFTER 50 YEARS Wreck's Hawser Found MELBOURNE
A two-foot length of the hawser of the clipper Hurricane, which sank at Wreck Buoy nearly fifty years ago, who hooked by a snapper fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cruiser Wreck Tacoma's Crew Safe Vera Cruz
The American cruiser Tacoma. which was despatched to restore cable communications interrupted by the Mexican rebels, and went ashore on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clan Kennedy Ashore Stranded on Suffolk Coast Lifeboat Stands by London, Friday Night
The Clan Kennedy, after a long voyage in the Pacific, having left Papeete in November, and discharged portions of her cargo at Hamburg and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Largest and Best lifeboat With Net Attached
This fine drawing, by Mr. C. E. Turner, in the "Illustrated London News," represents an imaginary rescue by the William and Kate Johnston, recently established at New Brighton, near Birkenhead. She is the largest motor-lifeboat in the world, and is provided with a net into which people may jump from a wreck. Explaining the scene, the artist writes: "Engine-room breakdown, the result of the racing' of her propeller in heavy seas, has caused the steamer to go ashore on dangerous sand. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Crowded Steamer Orvieto for London
A waterfall of waving color seemed to have splashed over the side of the Orvieto as she swung out from her berth at Circular Quay, soon after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy List Steamer's Plight Near Water's Edge
With a dangerous looking list to port, which brought her gunwale about six feet from the water's edge, and the docks covered with…
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