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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
80 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 4
The Kent Herald says a memorial window has just beep erected in the parish church of new Remny, as a memento of the wreck of the Northfleet off that coast in January, 1873. Mr. Brand, an unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boulogne correspondent of the Times telegraphed on the 15th November:— "Intelligence was received this morning of a terrible shipwreck at Audresselles, a village…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Bright Brothers received a telegram on Saturday night, conveying intelligence that the English and Australian Mail Company's royal mail steamer Brisbane which left Brisbane on the 8th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At half-past 4 o'clock on the fatal Tuesday morning, unobserved, for the weather was too severe for the coastguard to patrol the beach, a boat grounded near the Garrison Point. One…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A ship touched at Galle yesterday, and landed twenty survivors of the Strathmore from London to New Zealand, wrecked on Crozet Island, in July, 1875. They were rescued in a wretched…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Eliot Mullens gives the following graphic account of the late lamentable wreck of the steamer Banshee, on Hinchinbrook Island:— All went well till noon, when the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Joward has been wrecked, She left Jeddah on the 16th January with upwards of 400 pilgrims. On the same night she struck on a reef known as the Coomptas, and became a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening the Orestes (s.), of Holt's line, bound for China, whilst making this port with the intention of coaling, struck on the Geindura Reef, five miles distant, but got off, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday forenoon the steamer Woonoona, a new vessel in the Newcastle and Sydney roasting trade visited this port. She is almost new vessel, having arrived in Sydney from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the burning of the Cospatrick, and the account of the frightful experiences of the crew, no such dreadful suffering and anxiety has been recorded as that of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following telegram was received in London on March 2, from St. Catherine Point:—"The ship Glencray (of Glasgow) Captain Day, which left Adelaide November 8, 1875, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is a remarkable coincidenee that shortly after the accident to the Melbourne Steamship Company's s.s. You Yangs, the Newcastle Steam Co.'s Ship Kembla also touched the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE official investigation into the circumstances connected with the collision between the steamer' New England and the steam-tug Challenge, the master of which was present to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday, May 6th, the Local Marine Board commenced an inquiry into the circumstances attending the striking of the steamer You Yangs, Alfred Thrussell, master, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Local Marine Board yesterday, held a preliminary enquiry into the cause of the Kembla's running on to the rocks between Shepherd's Hill and Nobby's, on the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pl[?]mouth, Sunday night.—On Saturday night, during a furious N.[?].W. gale, a large steamer was driven ashore on the coast, of Cornwall, between St. Ives and the Land's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SHORTLY after daybreak on the morning of the 30th, a small gig, with six of the crew of the [?]nnie Mabel, Captain Ponting, 270 tons, belonging to Messrs. Mooris and Co., of this port,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the handsomest little steamboats we have seen for some time was launched yesterday from the yard of Mr. Pete Callan, of Stockton. In our yesterday's issue we stated that the launch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The barque Tuspan, 222 tons register, Captain Louti, with a cargo of Alawick coal, sailed from this part on the 6th instant for Brisbane, and the following telegram from the…
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