New Steamer for Lake Macquarie
A screw steamer of 270 tons for the Lake Macquarie coal trade launched on Wednesday from the shippbuilding yard of Mr. William Dnun, of Berry's Bay, being built to the order of Messrs…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16
Wreck of the Sea Nymph
NEWS has been received of the wreck of the barque Sea Nymph, a well-known Sydney owned vessel, commanded by Captain John Brady. The vessel went ashore on the…
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Messrs. Creer and a Berkeley report having sold by public auction the river steamer Centennial for the sum £1100 cash. Captain Williams was the purchaser…
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The trade between Melbourne and Launcesten is (says the Melbourne Age being closely pushed between the old monopolists and the innovators, Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co. The selection…
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THE Pacific Company's Royal Mail steamer Oruba, which arrived at Plymouth on September 23, from Valparaiso, brought among her passengers nine of the survivors of the…
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A BOAT arrived at Apia on October 15, reporting the wreck of the English ship Flying Venue, commanded by Captain Kerr, bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne with lumber…
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ON September 23, Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co. launched from their Low Walker shipbuilding yard the screw steamer Barmen, being the second vessel built to the…
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A cable from Auckland states:—Alt Christchurch, on Thursday, the court of inquiry gave judgment in the matter of the recent accident to the steamer Otago. The judgment…
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THE steamer Birksgate, which arrived in Sydney on Thursday, brings further news of the wreck of the Sea Nymph, and has also brought Captain Brady and his shipwrecked…
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News is to hand of the loss of the schooner Abstainer at the Gippsland Lakes entrance, resulting in the loss of two lives. The Abstainer was in charge of Captain Jack Gelhetis; Oscar Andersen,…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Messrs. Napier and Sons, the well-known shipbuilding firm of Govan, near Glasgow, are building a new steamer for the Orient Company which is to…
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THE British steamer Emerald arrived at Balifox, Nova Scotia, on 25th September, with ninety-nine officers and men of the British warship Lily, sunk on a reef in…
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The s.s. Essen is now at Melbourne. She belongs to the German-Australian line. A Melbourne exchange thus refers to her:—The Essen is a now steamer, now on her maiden voyage, and, like her…
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The Collector of Customs at Brisbane has received a report from the Sub-collector at Mackay intimating that the steamer Annie had returned to that port from the wreck of the barque…
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ON October 31, while the Auckland schooner Olive was coming out of Wallis Island, through the Honkoto Passage, she was boarded by fifteen natives, who crowded…
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What appears to have been a narrow escape for the crew of a Sydney owned coasting steamer is reported in the case of the wreck of the Bunyip. The little vessel was steaming towards the…
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THE London steamer Unionist arrived at New York after a most exciting and perilous voyage across the Atlantic. A fierce fire raged in the ship's bunkers for several days, in…
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THE French steamer Ville de Saint Nazaire, now under charter to the French Government, reached port yesterday evening from Noumea, New Caledonia, for the purpose of…
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Further particulars are now to hand of the sinking of the steamer Bunyip near the Manning River Bar. The steamer Bunyip, commanded by Captain Davis, and owned by Mr. Matthew Johnston, left…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Liguria arrived at Colombo on Tuesday homewards…
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