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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
43 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 3
Thursday, the 12th of July, 1866, will be a day long to be sorrowfully remembered by the inhabitants of Newcastle. It will be marked in the Calendar is the day on which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday evening last, shortly after half-past four o'clock, the steam-tug Bungaree, the property of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, of this city, was wrecked on the reef near Nobby's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Williams, of the Roderick Dhu, called at our office late last Friday evening and informed us of the total wreck of this schooner, on a sandy beach, two miles from Normah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We mentioned briefly in our extraordinary of yesterday, that the William Watson, barque, was wrecked on the North Shore beach, and that two of her crow were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]the memory of those who perished by shipwreck on board the Cawarra, off Newcastle harbour, on the 12th july, 1866. Reader! hear this plaintive story…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon, at the court-house, the official enquiry into the management of the lifeboat during the late wreek's was commenced. The Board consists of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the termination of the late storm the Government despatched Captain Myhill, the harbour-master, in the Grafton, steamer to examine the coast to the northward in search of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday afternoon last, the committee appointed by the public meeting on the 16th instant to carry out the funeral arrangements of the bodies cast ashore from the late wrecks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE official enquiry instituted by the Government into the alleged this-management of our lifeboat, as exhibited during the v[?]ent gale which swept along the Newcastle coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned official enquiry into the circumstances of the alleged delay in launching the lifeboat, on the 12th instant, taken before Captain Goss, R.N…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the above committee, convened by circular, [?] held in the Town Clerk's office, at the Court House. The following reverend, and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR-I cannot, in justice to myself, allow the fabulous allegations penned by Mr. Sydney Smith, and which appeared in the columns of your valuable journal of the 1st instant, to pass…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONLY in the most civilised of nations could there exist together the apparently anomalous institutions of a warlike movement like that of the "Military Volunteers" on the one hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Newcastle Wrecks' Relief Committee, convened by circular, was held in the Town Clerk's Office on Monday afternoon at three o'clock. The following members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR-I am happy to see that Mr. H. Holt has published his report of what occurred at the stranding of the William Watson, although he does not quite come up to thetruth: It is no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From representations made by the press, and by all sections of the people, a Board of Inquiry was appointed by the Government about a fortnight after the loss of the Cawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Immediately after our last summary left, containing particulars of the loss of the Cawarra, aud numerous other vessels, measures wore taken to set on foot a movement for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the report of the commission era who held the inquiry respecting the Newcastle Lifeboat:-The Commission to the Under-Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daring the month the commissioners appointed by the Government to inquire into [?] condition of the Newcastle lifeboat (an inquiry held in consequence of the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few days ago there appeared in the Sydney [?]pors an exceedingly brief acount of the wreck of the brig Cosmopolite, on Mas[?] Island, or Reef, some twenty-eight of [?] miles from the port of…
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