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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

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The Late Robbery Aboard the Steamer Namoi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1884 · page 3

UP to the present no further light has been thrown upon the peculiar case of robbery which occurred aboard the steamer Namoi during Saturday night, whilst on her…

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Wreck of the Dollar Bird

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—News has been received that the schooner Dollar Bird, coal laden, has been stranded at the Heads, Tweed River. She is full of…

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Wreck of the Berengaria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.—The ship Berengaria, 1318 tons, from Melbourne, August 9th, which was telegraphed as having arrived in the British Channel a few days…

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Wreck of the Ship Berengaria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.—The ship Berengarai, 1318 tons, from Melbourne, August 9, which was telegraphed as having arrived in the British Channel a few days…

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Wreck of the Bernengaria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—Twenty-one survivors of the ship Ber ngaria, which went ashore on the Essex coast, have been landed in safety. The captain and ten of the crew…

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Accident to the Steamer Energy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Energy, which arrived in the harbour to-day, for the purpose of towing a vessel to Newcastle, met with an accident to her…

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How Jack got Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1884 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning four of the crew of the American ship Oneida (which was about to leave for Hongkong) escaped. At breakfast time, when the master and officers were below, the men slipped over…

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Steamer Excursions, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1884 · page 4

The powerful steamer Goolwa (lately entirely overhauled) has been chartered for a trip to the most picturesque stretch of water in the northern districts—the…

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Wreck of the Steamer Star of the South

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1884 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—The Star of the South, steamer, has been wrecked on the Greymouth bar. No lives were lost. The vessel was insured in New…

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Fatal Collision at Sea.—loss of a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 December 1884 · page 2

On Sunday evening, about 7 o'clock, a collision occurred between two of the new steamers of the Bombay Steam Navigation Company (Shepherd and Co.) in the Dabool Creek, in much about the…

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Wreck of the Star of the South

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1884 · page 2

AUCKLAND (N.Z), Tuesday.—The steamer Star of the South is a total wreck at Greymouth, N.Z…

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