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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

26 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2

Wreck of the Susannah Cuthbert

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 7

The New Wallsend Coal Company's steamer Susannah Cuthbert, Captain Wallbrook, from Catherine Hill Bay to Sydney, ran on shore on Long Reef at 3.30 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and her decks are now opening…

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Local and General News. The Steamer Commissary-General

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 26 August 1875 · page 2

This steamer which was sunk in the harbour through colliding with a lighter, has since been got up, and is now on the slip, where she is undergoing the necessary repairs to reader her…

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Cooranbong. Launching of the Ketch Sea Birid

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 7

WEDNESDAY morning was one of the greatest days that has ever been in Cooranbong since it has been inhabited. It was the celebration of the launching of the Messrs. Tobin Brothers…

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Newcastle Lifeboat Committee

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 12 October 1875 · page 3

A meeting of the above was held at the Harbour Master's office, yesterday afternoon. Present: James Hannell, Esq., J.P. (President); Captain D. T. Allan, and Captain Cross…

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Wreck and Total Loss of the Union Steam Ship Company's S.s. Bruce

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 4

Since the loss of the ill-fated ship Surat, nothing has occurred to cause so great an amount of excitement, or elicit such an universal expression of regret from all classes of the community, as did the…

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Loss of the Steamer Pacific

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 5

Our cable message from in London records the loss of the steamer Pacific by collision, fraught with the fearful loss of two hundred and fifty lives, while making the coasting passage from Victoria (British Columbia) to…

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