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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

167 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 9

The Wrecked Labour Schooner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 August 1886 · page 4

The nature of the wreckage reported as having come ashore between Cape Bedford and Indian Head, near Cooktown, says the Brisbane Observer, points directly to the loss…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Saturday. The Steamer Eurimbla

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 August 1886 · page 5

The sub-collector of Customs at Gladstone telegraphed as follows:—The steamer Eurimbla put into this port with a hole in her bow, having…

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Vessel Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 5

The schooner Annie Hill, of Newcastle, for Portland, Victorian went ashore on the North Point Reef, Circular Head…

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The Schooner Condong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 5

The Condong was insured for £1000 in the Hull Insurance Company; her cargo for £400 in the Australian General Insurance…

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A Schooner Capsized. Two Lives Lost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 7

BY the steamship Bancoora, which reached Port Jackson last evening, says Monday's S. D. Telegraph, there arrived in Sydney Captain William…

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Another Screw Steamer for the Australian Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 4

There is some talk of Messrs. George Thompson and Co., the enterprising owners of the famous Aberdeen White Star Line (says the S. D. Telegraph) building another…

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Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 5

The schooner Hugh Ewing has been wrecked at the Great Barrier Reef, and the crew have arrived in Brisbane. She was insured for £1500 in the…

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Wreck of the Schooner Hugh Ewings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 August 1886 · page 6

THE barque Rachael, bound from Dungenness to Melbourne, arrived off Cape Moreton on Monday morning with the captain and crew of the schooner…

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New Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 August 1886 · page 5

The Port Jackson Company's new Manly steamer was launched today from Mort's dock. The Governor christened her the Narrabeen…

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Accident Off Nobbys. a Schooner Sunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 August 1886 · page 5

LAST night considerable excitement was caused by the statement which gained circulation that a schooner had been run down by a tug-boat not far from our port…

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New Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 5

A new steamer for the Richmond River trade is to be built by the Mort's Dock Company, for Mr. B. B. Nicholl…

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Shipwreck Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 August 1886 · page 5

The income of the National Shipwreck Relief Society, for the past year amounted to only £633…

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Steamer Letter-Boxes. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 5

SIR,—I wish to call your attention to enclosed paragraph, cut from your issue of to day. The Sydney left Sydney last night, and not Newcastle, the Lady Bowen…

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Alleged Larceny From a Ketch. a Newcastle Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 3

AT the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Alexander Brown, J.P. Ellis Taylor summoned John Glover for having stolen sunday articles from the…

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The Steamer Hubbuck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 4

The new cargo carrying steel steamer Hubbuck, from London via ports, arrived at Melbourne on Saturday. The Hubbuck was built to the order of the owners of the…

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Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 5

A cutter of the name of Manu Mann, has been totally lost at Fly River, New Guinea…

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Arrival of Immigrant Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 5

The immigrant steamer Port Pirie arrived this morning…

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Shipwrecked Fishermen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 5

A fisherman named Glover and two of his mates arrived at Gabo Island in a boat, having been blown away from Wingen Inlet. They had been five…

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Telegrams New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Ketch Floated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 September 1886 · page 5

THE ketch Clara Ethel has been floated off Gabo Island…

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Wreckage Found

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 September 1886 · page 5

A quantity of wreckage, found at Port Macquarie, is supposed to belong to the cutter Sovereign of the Seas, with the New Zealand murderers…

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