Australian Lifeboat
Harbour trail of Peak's lifeboat, built by Messrs, [?] of Limehouse, to order of New South Wales. We found on launching that the water tight deck, when the boat was empty was six inches…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1858
6 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
The Wrecked P. and 0. Company's Steamer Ava
Since our last issue, we have had no further particulars from this out station of the catastrophe, beyond the following:—"All the treasure is likely to be saved from the Ava—£250,000; the vessel is likely to pieces ; most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the "Eagle" Steamer From Port Curtis. Latest Intelligence from the Fitzroy Diggings
The steamship Eagle arrived from Port Curtis at midnight, without having tost a single hand by desertion. She has brought up 131 ounces of gold. consigned to D. Cohen and Co., and 10 ounces to Mr D. Goldring Captain Chatfield having been only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of a Steamer From Geelong
On Monday morning the Corie steamer arrived here from Geelong, with some sixty passengers, destined for the gold fields of Canoona. They are said to be chiefly Ballnarat men—just the right men to become the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Timandra
We havr been favoured by Mr E. M. Sayers with an extract from a letter received yesterday from Captain Morrison of the Monarch, barque, detailing the particulars of this unfortunate wrack, by which it will be seen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loss of a Schooner, with All Hands on Board, Off Sydney Heads
By the arrival, yesterday morning, of the Collaroy steamer, from Sydney, we have received news of a melancholy divaster which occurred off the North head at Sydney, between five and six o'clock, on monday…
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