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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 6
The Tasmania was one of the latest additions to the P. and O. Co., she having been launched from Caird and Co.'s yard on the Clyde in the middle of 1881. She made her first voyage to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FURTHER details regarding the stranding of the P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S. Tasmania state that the loss of life was considerable. The captain and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE mate of the ketch Agnes Rose, now lying in Nelson's Bay, reports that, while on her passage from Sydney, at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday night, and while off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALL the passengers from the P. and O. Co.'s s.s. Tasmania were safely landed at Marscilles this morning by the company's steamer Chusan, which was sent to Ajaccio…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE British-India steamer Dorunda from London arrived a Cooktown yesterday, and brings news of a terrible shipping catastrophe on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON and after Monday night the Newcastle Steamship Company will discontinue their steamer to Sydney starting at 5 o' clock, and will run a boat at 11 p.m., on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The three-masted schooner Reward has been wrecked on the voyage from Oamaru to Auckland. Captain Andrews and the cook and one seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clarence and Richmond River Steam Navigation Company's newt steamer Electra, intended for the New South Wales coasting trade, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, the First Lord of the Admiralty, presided, on March 26, at Willis's Rooms, at the annual meeting of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The barque Northumberland with 1,000 tons cargo from London, is a total wreck at Napier, N.Z. THE NEW ZEALAND TARIFF…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE details of the wreck of the Victoria, Channel packet, between Havre and Dieppe, shows that the vessel went on the reefs at Cape Airily, close…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A FEW days ago (says the S. D. Telegraph) our special cable message from New Zealand reported the loss of the brigantine Nightingale on Mubulici…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM from Marseilles says that the steamer Chusan, which left that port on April 18, bound for Ajaccio, where it wont to fetch the people who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTAIN T. WOODHOUSE and the crew of the steamer Ripple, which was wrecked at the Solomon Islands in February last, arrived at Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHAT is she—and what was she—do you say? Come with me for a moments to a home Where all was sunshine in her childhood's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision occurred in the harbour shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning, by which the ketch May was sunk, whilst the master, Captain Martin, had rather a miraculous escape from losing his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the instance of Mr. James Powell, Collector of Customs for the colony, the master of the steamship Chelydra (Henry Peace), who arrived in Port Jackson on the 25th May,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following narrative by a lady passenger is published, in the London Daily Telegraph:— Sir,—Being one of the passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Hydaspes, homeward bound from Calcutta, has gone ashore in the Gulf of Suez…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Victoria, the first of the magnificent additions to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's already large fleet, was launched from Messrs…
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