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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1866

43 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 3

Wreck of the Cawarra

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 14 November 1866 · page 4

We reprint from the S. M. Herald, of Friday last, the following precis of evidence taken before the Steam Navigation Board, as ordered, by the Treasury. We omit the evidence…

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Launch of the G. V. Brooke Lifeboat

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 21 November 1866 · page 2

The lifeboat which was subscribed for by the friends and admirers of the late gifted G. V. Brooke, as a testimony to his worth an appropriate memorial of his untimely fate, was…

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Total Wreck of the Barque Nautilus

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 22 December 1866 · page 3

On Thursday evening last, at a few minutes before eight o'clock, the barque Nautilus, Captain De Landies, ran aground with all sail on her on to the ledge of rocks immediately under Nobby's. The pilot department and…

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