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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
17 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Yesterday morning our city was thrown into a state of great excitement by a report that the steamer Niagara, of the Colling wood Line, was burned to the water's edge, off Port Washington, while on her way to this city with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mails by the European and Australian Royal Mail Company's Steamer On[?] for the United Kingdom by way of Marseilles and Southampton for France direct and for the Continent of Europe by way of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mails by the European and Australian Royal Mail Company's Steamer Simla, for the United Kingdom by way of Marseilles and Southampton, for France direct and for the Continent of Europe by way of France, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Towns, with the consent of the house, postponed, until Tuesday next, the two motions standing in his name relative to the Report and recommendation of Select Committee appointed to inquire into and report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the passengers by this ill-fated vessel, Mr. Richard Henry Davis, has handed to us a Cape paper, the Argus, containing a narrative of the destruction of the ship by fire, and the saving of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] Monday, at 11 o'clock a.m. an inquest was held at [?] known as the King's Arms, Lower [?] touching the death of the passengers and [?] the ship Dunbar, lost at South Head on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We extract from the Melbourne papers the particulars of another melancholy disaster at sea, which occurred on the night of Monday last. The following is from the Age…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the above matter have arrived at the following conclusion respecting the port of Newcastle:—"Your committee have had greater opportunities of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Pockley, in his report, after giving a circumstantial account of the recovery of five bodier, writes as follows as to the efficiency of the look-out kept at the Heads on the night of the awful catastrophe:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After a lapse of little more than two months since the wreck of the Dunbar, it again becomes our painful duty to record the loss of another equally fine ship, and as valuable a cargo, but happily (although attended by seriously fatal results), not so terrible a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following narrative has been banded to us for publication by a passenger in the Ma[?] Carvallo, from Tabiti:— In February last year, the Chilian brigantine Sarah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When we reflect on the calamitous loss of life by the late wrecks, it is evident that much remains to be done in measures of precaution. The following rules and signals, adopted in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT would seem that we grow familiar with catastrophe, since the flood of sympathy which was poured forth at the loss of the Dunbar, offered a strange contrast to the comparative indifference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The jury, at the termination of three-quarters of an hour, returned the following verdict:—"That the deaths of the persons named in this enquiry were caused by an error in judgment displayed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In compliance with the directions of the Minister for Finance and Trade, conveyed in a letter dated October 24th, the Light, Pilot, and Navigation Board proceeded to inquire into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Catherine Adamson. They were occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ARRIVAL OF BARQUE ELLEN AND BRIG MARINE AT NORFOLK.—On Saturday, the barque Ellen, Captain Johnson, arrived at Norfolk, followed shortly after by the brig Marine, Captain Burt of Boston. The Ellen had forty nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dec. 23.—Yarra Yarra, for Moreton Bay. 23—H.M. Warfield, barque, Campbell, master, for Sydney, with 212 tons coal. 24—Cyclone, schooner, 69 tons, Heard, master, for…
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