The Steamer Glaucus Again Ashore
The steamer Glaucus, which recently stranded on King's Reef, Queensland, but subsequently floated, has once more come to grief, having run ground on the same reef, and all hopes of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886
167 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 9
Shipwreck
The schooner Mary Ballantyne, for some days anchored at Clarence Heads, floated off, but the warps parted, and she swept broadside on the bar. The heavy…
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A telegram posted at the Sydney Exchange on Saturday staled that "The schooner Lizzie Davis, bound from Port Macquarie to Clyde River, in ballast, went ashore on the beach about a mile and…
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The "Otago Daily Times" publishes the following letter, which has been addressed by the Union Steamship Company to Captain Chatfield:—Dunedin, 6th January, 1886…
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The steamship Tagliafono, which arrived in Melbourne on the 26th inst., from Cardiff, has been purchased by Messrs. M'Ilwraith and Company, and is intended to run in conjunction with the…
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The schooner Agnes Edgella has become a total wreck in a gale off Tonga…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. London, Monday. New Steamer
The Orient Company is building a 6000 ton steamer on the Clyde for the Australian trade…
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The steamer Waihora, stranded at Swan Island, has been successfully raised, and arrived at Melbourne this morning, where she was docked…
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The ship Nagpore arrived here yesterday from London, and reports being boarded by a boat from Tristan d'Acucha, which confirmed the loss of a lifeboat containing…
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The H.R.N.S.N. Co.'s steamship Namoi was locked immediately after arrival in Sydney on the 13th instant for survey, to ascertain whether the hull had sustained any damage from the collision…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Company (Limited) were in receipt of a cablegram yesterday morning from Auckland, stating that the schooner Flora, which was chartered by them on behalf of the Fiji Sugar…
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The steamer Victory returned to Townsville on Sunday, from the steamer Glaucus, which is stranded on King's Reef. She reports that the pumps are now able to compete with the water, and the…
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The following was the decision of the Marine Board of Fiji, held on February 19, to inquire into the cause of the wreck of the schooner Flora at Kadavu Reef. Fiji. The vessel was commanded by…
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A meeting has been held of the National Shipwreck Relief Society, and it was stated that £188 is to the credit of the association. The sum of fifteen…
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THE Pilot Board met on Monday morning (says the Melbourne Argus), for the purpose of enabling Captain Brown, of the steamer Gambler, to…
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ON January 20 there was launched from the ship-building yard of Messrs. Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, in Sunderland, a steel screw steamer of…
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The schooner Louis Montgomery, 209 tons register, Captain Arndt, which has frequently visited this port, put in an appearance at about 6 o'clock last night, after an exceedingly temptestnous…
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On Saturday morning a rumour was circulated in shipping circles stating that a vessel had been wrecked the previous night near Point Stephens during a heavy gale. Later on the rumour was…
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THE citizens of Newcastle are no doubt aware of the heavy break there has been on the bar for the past few days, and the rather boisterous weather outside. This state of…
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The steam collier Mount Kemble, which arrived in Sydney some few months since to run in the coal trade between Mount Kembla and Sydney, made her first appearance in this port yesterday morning…
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