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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
26 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
The Torres Straits Steamer Somerset left Singapore on the 15th December, and Batavia on the 18th. She panned the Legislator on the 23rd, and the Flintshire on the 27th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. R. Craig, the owner of this vessel, received a telegram yesterday afternoon, December 31, informing him that she had gone ashore near Cape Byron. It will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] to have to record the total [?] steamer, Captain Flamank, [?] morning of the 12th December [?] She started about 10.30 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday forenoon, 'at about half-past ten o'clock, the look-out man on Captain Allan's Hill observed u vessel bearing down for the port before the southerly gale which was then…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOSS OF THE BARQUR BLENCATHRA, BOUND FOR SYDNEY.—Queenseliff, Saturday.—The ketch Secret arrived from King's Island this morning, bringing the captain and crew of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the account of the wreck of the vessel when she reached King's Island.— On Wednesday night, the 3rd February. Mr. Hudson, the chief officer, had the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As soon as the signal gun fired on Sunday, for the launch of the lifeboat, there a general stampede to the end of the What and from thence to Nobbys'. Moved by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane, Tuesday.—The Leichardt (s.) has arrived from Cooktown. Captain M'Lean reports that ut daylight on Thursday he picked up a boat with four men who had been washed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gothenburg (s.). is insured in the Southern and other companies, but not to the full amount. ADELAIDE, Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government are anxious to arrange for the dispatch of the Tinonce, to search about the islands in the vicinity of the wreck of the Gothenburg; but, unfortunately,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intelligence has just been received that twenty-three of the passengers and crew of the Gothenburg have reached Port Denison, and that all the rest, with the exception of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Anvil Creek Coal Company have made a valuable addition to the Newcastle collier fleet by the new steamer Merksworth, which vessel arrived in port yesterday morning from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that this favourite steamer still continues to run at cheap fares between Newcastle and Sydney, for the convenience of persons desirous of visiting the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE number of wrecks reported for the present year to date of February 13, amounted to 255. The barque Silome from London to Brisbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, May 10.—Fifty-six mail bags have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. —The passengers are most Germans, and it cannot be traced that there were on board any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By telegram, received this day from Melbourne, we learn that very heavy gales have occurred at Timaru. The Otago papers of the 10th instant report that the ship Cyrene, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British barque Marama, which arrived yesterday from Tahiti, brought news which explains the non-arrival of the schooner Margaret Crockard, which was long overdue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Australasian Steam Navigation Company, by their efforts to open up and encourage direct communication with Fiji have sustained the loss of one of their finest screw steamers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The S. M. Herald of Monday learns from Captain Woods the following:—The Rangatira left Levuka on her return voyage on 26th May, and had light easterly winds. On the 31st May, the ship going dead slow, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The brig, Ben Nevis, Captain jones, left this port with coal for Melbourne about one O'clock on Saturday morning last. She had fair weather till eleven or twelve o'clock the same evening,…
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