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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
80 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 4
The cutter Jessie, 23 tons, Tuckey master arrived at Fremantle on the 5th May, from the pearling ground, bringing news of the wreck of the barque Stephane, 875 tons register, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Water Lily, 51 tons, M'Dougall master, with a crew of four men, was lying in M'Donnell Ray, Portland on Wednesday, in a heavy gale of wind. The vessel, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Information was received yesterday forenoon by Captain D. Williams, by cablegram from Wellington, New Zealand, that the barque Heversham had struck a sunken rock in Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE cutter Gem, 52 tons, owned by Messrs. W. S. & G. Pearse, sailed from Dougarra with 500 bags of wheat, at 6 o'clock on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne, Thursday, 2.22 p.m. Information has just been, received of the total wreck of the Gettwood, from Liverpool to Melbourne, twelve miles south of Rivoli Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Water Police Court, Henry Zein, keeper of a restaurant in Pitt-street, was [?]ed £20 for keeping filthy promises. A diver has had a desperate encounter with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE ship Lightning, with 406 emigrants, went ashore at Trowbridge, three miles nearer shore than where, the Iron King was wreaked. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Maori has arrived at Greymouth with the Captain of the Cœsarewitch, wrecked en her voyage from the Bluff to Sydney. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]hull of the Gellwood lies forty [?] nearer Port Macdonnell than [?]the steamer Admella was wrecked. [?]wreck appears to have been caught…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Heversham was wrecked on Tom's Rock, near Wellington, on the 17th ultimo. She left Newcastle, New South Wales, on the 7th ultimo, and sighted Cape Farewell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The usual doll mono[?] wet Sunday afternoon was some[?] ened yesterday, through the foolish [?] of a drunken sea-faring man, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday last, at half-past eleven o'clock a.m, the schooner Lady Emma, Captain Olsen, was towed out to sea from this port by the steam tug Perseverance. There was a very heavy sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following telegram has been received by Mr. Hewison, the agent of the above vessel:— The barque Agnes, Smith, master, which suiled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE wreckers at Rivoli Bay Seem to have carried off a great deal of the most valuable portions of the cargo of the Geltwood, but the efforts of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, a collision between the ketch Kate and the Morpeth steamship, occurred abreast of the Hospital. The Morpeth had gone to sea in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY EVENING, about six o'clock, three seamen presented themselves at this office and reported the total wreck of the ketch Hoolet, the topsail schooner Acme,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the late heavy weather Lake Macquarie has been in a very turbulent state, and vessels going in and out experienced a considerable amount of danger. The master of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our issue of Saturday last we briefly announced the wreck of the schooner Acme, in Seal Rock Bay. On Saturday morning last, however, two of her crew arrived in Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INFORMATION came to hand yesterday, of further disasters, caused in the shipping by the late gales; and we are extremely sorry to say, a considerable number of lives have been…
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