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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
232 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 12
The steamer Glaucus, which arrived here on Sunday to load a cargo of coals for Lyttelton, was on Tuesday seized by Mr. Martin (Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court, Sydney), on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Huddart Parker and Co.'s new steamer, Surrumbete, has been successfully launched on the Tyne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Maitland, which has been built for the Adelaide Steamship Company, was launched to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The barque Lune which left Newcastle on the 10th instant for Batavia, has become a total wreck at Cliffy Island. The crew were saved and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The barque Lune has been shipwrecked off Cliffy Island. The vessel arrived in Newcastle train Auckland on the 17th ultimo, took in 750 tons coal for Batavia, and left on the 10th instant with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tongari[?]o, from Lyttelton January 12th, with 14,000 carcasses of frozen mutton, has arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Bortonius, recently floated off the rocks in the Manning River, has arrived in harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thos, Steward, the steward aboard the steamer Nemesis, has been committed for trial for robbing a passenger from Melbourne of four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—News has been received from Fiji that a quantity of wreckage has floated ashore at Viti, Levu. The wreckage apparently belongs to a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Shaw Savill and Albion Company's steamship Taimui left Capetown on February 22, for New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the arrival of the steamship Tarawera at Sydney, from New Zealand, advices have been received of the wreck at Kaipara of the barque Mary Ann Annison. She left the pilot station on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—H. M. S. Miranda reports sighting a wreck on Elizabeth Reef on February 24th, apparently of 400 or 500 tons register. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Government have been informed through Admiral Tryon that Captain Ackland, of H.M.S. Miranda, has reported that on sighting the Elizabeth Reef, on the 24th February last, he observed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Illaroo has passed Cape Otway for Sydney, sixty days from Newcastle, England. A clean bill of health to all outgoing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The barque Both well Castle, owned by J. and A. Brown, of Newcastle, has been wrecked on Ngarik Island. The captain and crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Sofia, with Lord Beresford on board, arrived at the island on Tuesday. During the engagement with the enemy the Sofia's boiler was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some excitement was cause here yesterday evening about 5 o'clock by the signal gun being fired from the hill. Crowds immediately flocked to the beach and the hill to see what vessel was in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Newton, harbour-master, has kindly handed us a telegram received by him from Captain Dalton, of the steamer Kingsley, stating that the steamer Lily had gone ashore three miles off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new steam-collier Illaroo, build specially for the Bulli Coal Company, arrived at Sydney on Thursday morning from England, after an exceedingly good passage of sixty-one days from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A REPORT was current in town last night to the effect that a fishing boat had become a total wreck at Nine Mile Beach. The owner and occupant of it was a man…
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