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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
93 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5
"THE Orient Company's magnificent steamship Austral, Captain Murdoch; which met with an accident to her machinery on her last voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Further researches on board the steamer Austral yesterday revealed the bodies of Mr. Alexander, the refrigerating engineer, and of three Arab…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Ariel, Captain [?]odie arrived in Newcastle yesterday morning, after nearly a twelve months' trip amongst the Islands. She left Sydney on the 9th January, traded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams to the Hobart Mercury, Swansea, dated Friday, No. 10. says :—A party of volunteers in the police boat returned last night from the wreck of the ketch Guiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A telegram from Sourabaya states that a British ship, name unknown, has been totally lost off Baly Island, in the Java sea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the kind invitation of Mr. John Brown (of Messrs. J. and A. Brown), a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen met yesterday morning on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Plutus, which left Newcastle on Saturday with a cargo of coals for Melbourne, went ashore during a gale on Saturday night in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news of the loss of the fine steamer Plutus caused some consternation in maritime circles yesterday morning; and the later news that Captain Kish and her crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The English-mail, via San Francisco, has arrived at Auckland. She brings 600 cases and 100 half-cases of salmon, and 650…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It is now a well-recognised enstom during Christmastide for all steam companies to reduce the charges of travelling, thus enabling those who look…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRAFTON, Wednesday evening.—The captain, chief officer, and a boy are still hanging on to the wreck, with but little hope of their being saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The ship Southern Monarch, from Newcastle on October 9th, ran ashore at Madras, and became a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Thursday.—I have just returned from the scene of the wreck. The most accurate reports give 47 persons as the number who were on board the New…
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