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Editor's Note: The following ships may not all be the same Titana. Additional research is needed.

Saturday, April 6, 1867, The Brisbane Courier, Brisbane, Australia

TELEGRAPHIC
(From Our Telegraphic Correspondents)
SYDNEY

The steamer Titana, lately belonging to the Spanish fleet, has arrived with a cargo of produce from Tahiti.

June 19, 1867, British Lion

The steamer Titana, formerly the American steamer Uncle Sam, arrived here on the 5th from Tahiti, where she was sold by the Spanish Fleet for a small sum. The Titana will remain here for some months, as new boilers are required.

June 10, 1867, Kingston Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica
and
June 26, 1867, Daily Alta California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

FROM AUSTRALIA
By the Montana, from Panama, we have New Zealand dates to May 7th, and from Sydney and Melbourne to May 1st:

South Australia

The steamer Titana, formerly the American steamer Uncle Sam, arrived here on the 5th from Tahiti where she was sold by the Spanish fleet for a small sum. The Titana will remain for some months, as new boilers are required.

Daily Southern Cross, 25 Paengawhawha 1867

MISCELLANEOUS

The French Protectorate steamer Titana arrived early yesterday from Tahiti. She sailed on March 8, and has had light winds throughout. She has come up here for repairs to the boilers, etc., and was stopped for six days through their leaking. The Titana is a New York built vessel, of 1,300 tons burden, and when in proper steams fifteen knots.

She has been employed for some time on the west coast of America, between Panama and San Francisco. She formed one of the Spanish war fleet in the blockade of the Chilean coast and bombardment of Valparaiso.

She is a wooden boat of great capacity, and carries 1,000 tons of coal, with accommodations for 600 or 700 troops. In addition to extensive saloon cabins, she has water tanks capable of holding 25,000 gallons. Her engines are on the American deck beam principle, and in appearance she very much resembles the well-known steamers Golden Age and Governor-General that visited this port some years ago. She has three decks, exclusive of her hurricane deck. She is twenty-six days from Tahiti, using but one boiler, with a pressure of two to four inches steam only, her chief fuel being green firewood, which was consumed with much difficulty. She is consigned to Messrs. Beilby and Scott, and we believe it is intended to sell her at this port, if a market can be found. She reports the department of H.I.M. ships Clio and Mutine for Valparaiso -- Sydney Morning Herald, April 6

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, 4 Paengawhawha 1868

News of the Day

RETURN OF CHINESE DIGGERS. -- The Melbourne Argus says: "Those Chinamen who have done well on the diggings of this colony are returning to their native country in large numbers. The steamer Titana, which sails on the 17th inst. for Japan via Sydney and Hong Kong, will take away some 400 of them, who are bound for Hong Kong, and an equal if not larger number will join the vessel at Sydney. The ambition of Chinamen in money matters is not high, and a sum which to a European would seem of little importance to start in life with is regarded by a Celestial as a fortune wherewith to settle peaceably on his native soil."

September 4, 1899, Tyron Daily Herald
and Harrisonburg Rockingham Register, September 8, 1899

ATE HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD.

Frightful Experience of Shipwrecked Sailors Near Charleston.

CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 2. A terrible tale of the sea, the story of survivors drawing lots to die and be hacked up for food, was told today by two of the men of the wrecked Norwegian bark, Drot. They had sucked the blood from their companion's body to keep alive. One of the saved men is a raving, ranting, shrieking maniac. His name is Maurice Anderson. The other one's name is Goodmund Thomasen. He is sane but wasted away. They were picked up on Thursday by the British steamer, Woodruff, Captain Milburn, two hundred and fifty miles south of Charleston. But one of the crew was saved. He was landed at Philadelphia on August 22 by the German steamer, Titana.

September 3, 1902, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Coast Shipping

San Diego, Sept. 2 - The collier Titana, six days from Nanaimo, coal laden, arrived at noon today.

August 24, 1904, Boston Daily Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

WHARF ARRIVALS.
Schooner M. S. Ayers Sighted a Floating Wreck Southeast of the Highlands.

The schooner M. S. Ayers brought in this morning a seine boat which was found adrift in the South channel, bottom up, last Monday. The boat has on the small deck aft the number '"38" over the number "1582"." The name has been painted over several times, but as well as it could be made out, it read "Titana, Gloucester." The Titana is a seiner, and was fishing in the vicinity of the Rips last week. She belongs in Gloucester. The Ayers spoke to her late last week, when the captain of the Titana said he had a large lot of mackerel in the hold, and a deckload as well . . .

Tuesday, October 16, 1917, The Advertiser, Adelaide

Brisbane, October 15 (Right: Map of Brisbane, 1878)

The A.U.S.N. Company's small cargo steamer Titana arrived from Rockhampton at daylight yesterday morning. This morning she was berthed at the A.U.S.N. Company's Eagle-street wharf, where she is taking in cargo for Maryborough, Bundaberg, and Rockhampton.