Heavy Weather along the Coast. a Ketch Stranded
ABOUT half an hour after midnight yesterdays a signal distress gun was fired from the Lookout Hill, in order for the lifeboat crew to stand by in readiness to put out…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884
151 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 8
The Ketch Ada
THE ketch Ada, which went ashore on the northern breakwater, lies in the same position water-logged. A meeting of the Marine Board was held on Wednesday…
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ABOUT 8 o'clock yesterday morning the steam-tug Goolwa, Captain Petersen, passed a quantity of wreckage, consisting of a white deck house and the main hatch of a…
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BY the arrival yesterday morning of the brig, Phillis, from Brisbane, a startling case of ship wreck was made known, viz., the total loss, off Seal Rocks, of the s.s. India,…
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A MEETING of the Newcastle Marine Board was held at the Custom House yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances attending the loss of the…
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THE adjourned inquiry by the Marine Board into the foundering of the steamer India was continued yesterday. There were present—Captain Allan (in the chair),…
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THE following remarks by the S. M. Herald on the wreck of the India endorse what we wrote on the same subject in our issue of Tuesday last:—…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The new steel steamer Bulli, which was recently built at Glasgow for the Bulli Coal Company, New South Wales, has been stranded at Cape…
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HALIFAX, April 6.—The surviving three passengers of the Daniel Steinham, now in this city, state that the vessel struck but lightly twice. The captain then summoned…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Seaman's Union have granted £14 towards the relief of the sailors of the wrecked steamer India…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The ship Syria, from Calcutta to Fiji, with 480 col[?] immigrants, is a total wreck on a reef twenty miles from Suva. The lascar crew and seventy coolies were…
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FIVE minutes after 4 a.m. yesterday signal runs were fired from the Look-out Hill, notifying that a vessel was in danger. The morning was dull and dark, with a heavy…
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CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN is now in Newcastle collecting for the National Ship wreck Relief Association of New South Wales. The society is an excellent one,…
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CAPETOWN, Tuesday.—The wreck of the steam collier Bulli has been sold at Capetown for £7. She cost £26,000…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The schooner Lady Robinson, from Adelaide to Townsville, is a total wreck con Barrier Reef. The crew arrived in boats a Bowen…
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WE are glad to notice that the great disability under which persons desirous of taking a short trip to Sydney between Friday and Monday has been removed by…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The dynamiters are busy at work in the metropolis, and terrific explosions occurred last evening at the Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, and…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Huddart, Parker, and Co. have Purposed a new steam collier of 2000 tons burthen, and with accommodation for thirty saloon and fifty…
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THE following account of the wreck of the iron ship, Syria, off the coast of Fiji, is from the pen of the Rev. S. J. Gibson, lately of Hamilton, and who is now appointed to Bau, Fiji, and who, at the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The ketch Emmanuel is reported ashore on the beach at Manly…
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