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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 16
THERE men charged with wrecking at the scene of the late disaster at Byron Bay pleaded guilty at Ballina on Friday, to taking a sail, twenty blocks, a chain, and a coil of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By the arrival in Sydney on Saturday of the French mail steamer Tanais from Noumea news was received from the New Hebrides. Group that the three-masted schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPTAIN CHARLES GOURD, of the steamer Inflexible, arrived in town with the remainder of the crew (six all told) to-day. He reports the foundering of his vessel south of the port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN connection with the sunken steamer Centennial, it is stated that Mr. J. C. Ellis has abandoned the ill-fated vessel to the underwriters, and it is understood that that body…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Island trading schooner Santa Cruz arrived in Fort Jackson on Thursday from the Now Hebrides after a rather uneventful voyage. The vessel, in charge of Captain Runcie, left Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE position of the sunken steamer Centennial is unaltered. A meeting of the underwriters has decided to call for tenders for the raising of the vessel and the delivery of her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquiry was held by the Marine Board, at Thursday Island, into the cause of the wreck of the Windhover on the Bramble Cay reef. The board exonerated the captain and officers from all blame,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—The North German Lloyds steamer Kaiser Wilhelm is to start running to Australia in October. The company guarantee to deliver the mails from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Australasian United Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Aramae has been launched at Dumbarton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Maranoa 1505 tons Captain R. Armstrong arrived from Brisbane on Saturday night at 8.30 o'clock. The following were passengers for Newcastle: Mr. A. S. Browne,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the heavy gale that blew through Friday night and continued till late on Saturday morning, the ketch Mayflower…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. John See and Co.'s new steamer for the Manning River has been launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Gourlay Brothers, of Dundee, and is expected to leave the Clyde shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE three-masted schooner George Noble from the Gilbert Group, with a cargo of copra, &c., which put into Havanah harbour, in the New Hebrides, last month, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BY the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Elamang, which arrived in Port Jackson on Thursday night from Brisbane, the second officer, the carpenter, and 11 seamen from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EIGHT British vessels were reported as shipwrecks during the week ending August 3, three being wrecked off the United Kingdom. Ten foreign vessels were reported wrecked,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Wainui brings the captain and eight of the crew of the Garston, which was wrecked on Staurbuck Island. They spent 23 days in an open boat at sea, with only 50 lbs of food,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Centennial, the steamer sunk in the collision in Taylor Bay, Port Jackson, is just now receiving the preliminary work upon her before the attempt is made to lift her off the bed of mud upon which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steel-built steamer that is being built for Messrs. J. and A. Brown to replace the Duckenfield will be 220 feet long. The engines, which are being constructed by Messrs. Fleming and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE British Vice-Consul at Tonga has (says the Daily Telegraph) held an inquiry into the causes which led to the wreck of the ship Garston, bound from Sydney to San…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Argus, of Messrs. Currie and Co.'s line, which loft here early on Tuesday morning for Auckland, after taking in coals, returned to Sydney on Wednesday. She has gone there to be docked…
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