Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1880

167 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 9

Wreck of the Buboe Bussie, from Java

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1880 · page 2

PERTH, Sunday.—The ship Baboe Bussie, laden with sugar, from Java to Melbourne, 30 days out, has stranded 100 miles west of Esperance Bay. The vessel…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the Australian Sovereign

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The barque Australian Sovereign, bound from Adelaide to Noumea, with 509 tons of flour, was wrecked at the entrance of the Bulari…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the Barque Australian Sovereign

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1880 · page 2

Captain Martin Berry, of the barque Australian Sovereign, who arrived in Sydney from Noumea by the City of Melbourne on Wednesday morning, brings information of the total…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Steamer Burnt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1880 · page 2

THE Murray River steamer Clara while lying alongside the river bank at Morgan (South Australia) on Thursday night, was discovered to be on fire. Assistance was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the Ketch Emmeline

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

In our telegraphic column will be found the recorded loss of the ketch Emmeline, of Sydney, 43 tons register, built at Brisbane Water in 1877, the property of Mr. George Spears, of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the Steamer Wanganui

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

In our telegraphic column will be found some particulars of the loss of the steamer Wanganui, at the Clarence River Heads, and the sad loss of two of her crew. The Wanganui…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Stranding of the Steamer Corea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.—The steamship Corea arrived at Cooktown last night, and the captain reports that she went ashore at Clermont Island No. 5, on the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Total Wreck of the Wanganui

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

CLARENCE HEADS, Monday.—The steamer Wanganui got on a reef at 11.30 last night, with a strong ebb tide. All hands were rescued excepting two. The…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

TELEGRAMS. Wreck off Port Macquarie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The schooner Emmeline, owned by Mr. Wm. Spier, timber merchant of Sydney, has been wrecked off the entrance to Port Macquarie…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 June 1880 · page 2

WE are happy to remind our readers that an old friend Capt. C. H. N. Sullivan, collector for the above society, arrived here yesterday afternoon, in the Collaroy,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the Wanganui

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1880 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT writing to the Echo, from Grafton, on Tuesday, says:—I returned from the heads at 12 o'clock last night, after having obtained the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

CABLEGRAMS. The Orient Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1880 · page 2

LONDON, June 26.—The Orient steamer left the Cape of Good Hope, for Sydney on Friday…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

TELEGRAMS. The Steamer Havilah in Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Obedient to signals of distress, the pilat steamer went out and towed in the steamer Havilah at 1.30 this morning. Her ongines were disabled…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Schooner Avoca

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The schooner Avoca, from Newcastle to Auckland, put into this port, and remained all the morning…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

TELEGRAMS. The Suez Mail Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Suez mail steamer Hydaspes arrived at Albany this morning…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Newcastle Lifeboat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1880 · page 2

IN order to be in readiness for any emergency that might arise from recent threatening weather, or a possible blocking up of the launching slip with sand,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Orient Steamer Cuzco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 July 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Orient steamer Cuzco arrived at Plymouth yesterday…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

[From the Sydney Papers.] Arrival of the Steamer Potos[?] at Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The Orient line steamer Potosi, 2703 tons, Captain A. J. Cooper, arrived at 11.40 p.m. Her dates are—London, June 9; Plymouth, June…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

TELEGRAMS. Ketch Coomba Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The ketch Coomba, while leaving Port Macquarie, got ashore on the North Spit. She was owned by D. Moses…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mail Steamer Normanby

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1880 · page 2

LONDON, July 19.—The mail steamer Normanby left Singapore yesterday for Australian ports…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →