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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
61 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 4
THE Ocean steamer arrived here from Hongkong, via Port Darwin, on Monday night, after having experienced heavy gales and thick weather. It was at first…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE steamer Wentworth, from Levuka, brings to this port Captain Steel, of the barque Leota, which was run on shore in a sinking condition at Rotumah, and afterwards sold for the sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN excellent specimen of the shipbuilding art arrived in the harbour, yesterday, from Port Stephens. We refer to the schooner Lismore, which vessel was built at the yards of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have just received intelligence from Melbourne to the effect that the steamer Blackbird, Captain M'Cormack, with passengers and coals, from Newcastle to Melbourne, was wrecked on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE P. M. S. S. Company's steamship City of Sydney arrived this evening from San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This vessel left Melbourne on the 30th ult. for this port port, and rounded Wilson's Promontory the same day at 6 p.m.; passed Cape Howe at midnight on the 31st; a strong wind was then…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are indebted to Mr. M'Intyre, missionary for Heytesbury Forest, for the following particulars:âThe young lady, who is about 19 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following is a copy of the rules transmitted for the approval of the Government on 7th May last, for the regulation and management of the Newcastle lifeboat. A reply was received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday was launched at the yard of the Messrs. Callan, a fine new screw steamer, which was named the Mystery, built to the order of Messrs. Timmony and Nesity of this city. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following correspondence in reference to the provision of a crew for the Newcastle life boat has been courteously handed to us for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A COMMOTION was created in Blane-street, near Tattersall's Hotel, yesterday, through the ludicrous antics of a man who had evidently drank "not wisely, but too well." He had hung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REGARDING the accident to the Orient steamer, the mail brings the following particulars (says the S. M. Herald):—The Garonne grounded on a sandbank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the National Shipwreck Relief Society was hold in Sydney on Wednesday afternoon. The chair was taken by Captain HIXON. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALBANY (Western Australia)—A fierce gale from the N. W. has been blowing on this coast for the past ten days, and as yet shows no indication of abating…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. GIBSON,of Gienample Station, who Is now in Melbourne, kindly given us (the Australasian) some information which he has just received from Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Argus of Tuesday contains the following telegram from Perth, dated Monday:—"The identification of the body found as that of Mrs. Towers is disputed, notwithstanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPTAIN T. A. Lake, of the Victorian., reports that after leaving the Custom, boat at the mouth of the Johnston River on the 21st, he sighted, at about 2 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE wrecked vessel Lord of the Isles was 657 tons, fourteen years old, owned by Messrs. Williamson, Mulligan, and Co., of Liverpool, who were also the owners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL who feel interested in the amelioration of some of those overwhelming sorrows which are too often endured by sufferers through shipwreck (and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City of Newcastle, which was to have left for Sydney last night at eleven o'clock, did not do so, for the reason that she had not discharged her inward cargo, which was a…
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