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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
13 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Car[?]ondale Illinois October 28 One of the most terrible disasters that over occurred on the Western waters took place at Neely's Landing below Grand Tower on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advices received on November 15, from Rio Janeiro, communicate the painful intelligence of the total loss of the ship Royal Standard, on the Brazilian coast, while on her outward voyage from London to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thursday was a day that will long be remembered in Geelong. It was the day on which what it was hoped would be the first attempt to remove the Lightning would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday, the 30th April, the district coroner (Mr. J. V. Wareham), and a jury, of five persons, viz., the Rev. A. Persons (foreman), James Cork, Miles Berry, George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the loss of the ill-fated steamship President, no event has created such melancholy interest in maritime and other circles in Europe and America as the loss of the Inman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is now proved, beyond a doubt, that we were correct in our surmises last week. Captain Thornton and Constable King have returned to Kempsey, from the scene of the wreck, and state that the lost vessel is nono…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle.—Sir—I will feel obliged if you will be good enough to insert the following particulars in your next issue, with reference to the case of the John Bullock; I only wish to do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—The captain of the Southland, in a letter published by you on Thursday last, states that I did not offer him half the towage of the John Bullock. The passengers and crew can prove that I did make him the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Will you kindly insert the following facts in reply to a letter in your issue of the 23rd instant, signed "William Summerbell, commander S. S. Paterson," wherein Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Yokohama correspondent of the Sacramento Union gives the following graphic account of the descent of the divers to the wreck of the ill-fated Oneida.—"On the 24th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We learn from three of the seamen who arrived by the French man-of-war, yesterday, aud who wore, besides one. passenger, tho only men saved from the wreck, that tho barque Fruiter was totally lost on the 2nd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The English mail, via Suez, which was duo at Adelaide, on Sunday, arrived at Glenelg, yesterday forenoon, bringing news from the seat of war to the 31st October, or nineteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday forenoon, about, a quarter to twelve o'olock, the barque Rialto, 303 tons, Captain Hodge, from Melbourne, was sighted from Flagstaff Hill, and Nobby's, at a distance of three or…
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