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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
12 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
The French barque Surceuf, 295 tons register, which left Newcastle on December 24th, with a cargo of 286 tons coal, 18 horses, and 460 sheep, has been totally wrecked on the coast of New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later native news from Africa says that Sir Samuel Baker left Gondokoro last year with 2000 troops for Kamiosa—that he had a conflict with the natives in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Money is scare. Large quantities of bullion have been sent abroad. The stock market is drooping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamship Hero, which left Melbourne on Saturday last, was sighted off Kiama on Monday evening, and has not since been heard of. The Government have dispatched the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The R.M.S.S. Sumatra left Ceylon to-day for Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have sad details of the loss of the steam-ship Germany, which was wrecked last week off the French coast. The steamer left Liverpool on the 18th December, with n crew and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The R. M. S. Sumatra, with the English mail, via Suez, arrived in Hobson's Bay today, and leaves for Sydney to-night. The war schooner Alacrity is ordered to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Look alive, men!" was the shout Scarce heard above the roar Of the thund' ring billows tumbling out From the night up the grating shore:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The official inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the United States mail steamer Atlantic, on the coast of Nova Scotia, has terminated. The verdict is that the supply of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Fire King was wrecked on Thursday on the Manning River Bar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steadier Columbus, running between Holyhead and Dublin, struck on a rock near Holyhead. There wore 200 persons aboard, and fifteen of them were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The brigs Emile. Fairy Queen, and Scotsman the schooner Duke of Edinburgh, and the ketches Wanderer and Excelsior have been wrecked at New Zealand…
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