The Schooner Aratipu
The Aratipu, which arrived in port on Wednesday evening from New Zealand, fell in with some of the late heavy weather. Captain Bower reports leaving Tairua on July 16, and after leaving the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
A Mail Steamer
LONDON, Thursday.—The M.M.S. Sa'azie arrived at Marseilles on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Mallsgate. Sufferings of the Second Beat's Crew. On the Verge of Despair. Terrible Privations. A Charitable Blackfellow. BRISBANE, Friday Night
THE remainder of the crew of the barque Mallsgate arrived in town to day, having been one day longer before sighting land than the captain and his boat. They have suffered…
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THE Queensland Royal Mail steamer Dacca, Captain John Stone, which (says a Home paper) arrived at Plymouth on June 8, brought home Captain Nielsen, his daughter,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Marine Board. The Lifeboat Service
AT the weekly meeting of the Newcastle Marine Board yesterday the conditions under which a steamer is to be engaged, under contract, to attend on the lifeboat wore laid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Mallsgate. Marine Board Inquiry. Extraordinary Evidence. BRISBANE, Thursday Night
AN inquiry was commenced to-day into the wreck of the barque Mallsgate, and additional information was elicited. The captain after leaving Newcastle on June 17th was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Rosie Welt. the Captain's Statement
THE Captain and crew of the ill-fated American ship Rosie Welt, which was lost recently in Torres Straits whilst on route from Newcastle to Singapore, reached Sydney on…
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LONDON, Friday.—Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the steamer Montreal, one of the Dominion Line of steam-ships playing between England and Canada…
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THE second of the two large passenger steamers for the Liverpool and New York service of the White Star Line was launched from the yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Marine Board. The Recent Wrecks
SYDNEY, Monday Night.—The usual weekly meeting of the members of the Marine Board was held this afternoon, all the members of the board being present and Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Mary E. Bacon. Terrible Sufferings of the Crew
The Newcastle (Eng.) steamer John Dixon took from Gibralter to Philadelphia recently several of the crow of the Mary E. Bacon, which was lost at sea, and through which the crew had undergone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riot on a Steamer
AN English paper has the following:—"The steamship Liverpool, chartered by the Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, which arrived in Dublin the other afternoon, after…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland. the Wreck of the Mallsgate
The Marine Board have given their decision in connection with the wreck of the barque Mallsgate on Middleton Reef on July 21. It was as follows:—"The Board consider that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wrecked Barque Waverley
Messrs. Purbury, Lamb and Co., Lloyd's agents at Brisbane, have called for tenders for the floating and delivering of the above-named vessel at Brisbane. Of the position of the vessel, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Dupleix
THE Australian Star of Saturday publishes a long article referring to a voyage of Mr. J. C. Ellis' steamer Dupleix from New Zealand to Sydney. According to the account the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Carried Over Rapids
A terrible catastrophe on June 22, on the St. Maurice River eight miles from the City of Three River, Canada. A steam ferry-boat was swept over a ca[?]aract 100 feet in height, and all on…
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Advices from the Cape of Good Hope stats that the barque Queen of Nations, 14 1 tons, had become a total wreck off the coast. The crew were rescued in an emaciated condition, having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked Barque Mallsgate. Arrival of the Crew in Sydney
BY the steamer Glanworth, from Brisbane, there arrived in Sydney on Monday a number of the shipwrecked crew of the ship Malisgate. This vessel was owned by Fisher and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Collision in Sydney Harbour. the Steamer Centennial Sinks. No Lives Lost
A COLLISION of a very serious nature occurred in the Sydney harbour, close to Bradley's Head, on Friday night, by which the steamer Centennial, laden with coal for Wellington,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Wreck of the Barque Windhover. All Hands Saved. BRISBANE, Sunday Night
CAPTAIN PLACK and family and the crew of the barque Windhover, from Newcastle, bound to Batavia, arrived at Thursday Island on Friday. They report losing the…
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