A New Steamer
Mr. Peter Callen's new steamer, which was recently built at the Tea Gardens, Port Stephens, to the order of Messrs. Canon and Company, and to the launching of which we referred some few…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 16
The Wreck of the Bunyip
The pilot of the Manning River on Tuesday telegraphed to the secretary of the Sydney Marine Board:—"9ft 6in of water on the Manning River bar at high water this morning. Very heavy…
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The barque Chas B. Kenny , which arrived at Melbourne from Puget Sound on Thursday morning, reports that at half-past on Wednesday morning, when twenty five miles…
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The inquiry into the wreck of the schooner Abstainer, at the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, was concluded on Thursday afternoon at Bairnsdale. The master of the steamer Rose of Sharon…
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The Marine Board Sydney, on Monday made an inquiry into the wreek of the steamer Bunyin at the mouth of Manning River on November 18 last. The board found that the wreek had been…
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The steamer Nemesis, which left Melbourne on Saturday evening for Wollongong, met with an accident to her machinery when off Cape Wollomai. The circulating pump gave way as she was…
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Advices have been received at Manila that the brigantine Pilar has been wrecked between Malabriga and Calapan, in the Philippines, and one passengeor was drowned. Four lives have been…
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The four-masted American fore-and -aft schooner Puritan, which arrived at Melbourne on Thursday last with over 700,000ft of lumber from pu[?] Sound, is similar to the William F. Witzmann…
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The ketch Abstainer, which was sunk at the Gippsland Lakes entrance some time ago, and which caused an obstruction to navigation, has been dismantled by order of the Melbourne Marine…
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Captain Le Mestre, of the Beeswing, and Captain Jacobson, of the Norkoowa, on arrival in port on Saturday from Melbourne, reported, when of Brush Island (Bateman's Bay) on Saturday seeing…
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LONDON, Friday.—The gunboat Watchful has gone aground at Lowestoft. Efforts to refloat her have proved fruitless, and it is believed that she will be a complete wreck…
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The Pacific Mail Company's new s.s. China was at Hongkong recently. A contemporary writing of her says:—She looks this very type of an "ocean greyhound"—long and low, and is probably the…
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The topsail schooner Mariner, of Sydney, chartered by O'Keefe, railway contractor, to carry piles from Tambo to Corner Inlet, went ashore while getting out of the Gippsland Lakes entrance…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, at their Newcastle offices, received a wire yesterday stating that the schooner Garfield had been wrecked at the Manning River, and was full of water. The…
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LONDON, Monday.—Eighteen of the crew of the American barque Tewkesbury L. Sweet, which left Newcastle on March 9th for Hongkong, and was lost at sea, landed at…
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The schooner Fleetwing left Rockhampton on 17th November for Bundaberg, and his not been heard of since. The harbour master at Rockhampton reports that he has examined every…
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A wire has been received through the Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association as follows:— "Sourabaya. December 11, 1889. The James Martin, barque, 1367 tons, of Picton, U. S., bound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Wreck at Banjoewangie
LONDON, Wednesday.— A report from Sourabaya states that the barque James Martin, 1367 tons, of Picton, Nova Scotia, bound from Samarang to Melbourne, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Shipwrecked Mariners Fund
At a meeting held in Adelaide on Wednesday, it was decided that a Shipwrecked Mariners' Fund should be started to render assistance to shipwrecked seamen. The crew…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Cheeseborough
The reported loss of the American ship Cheeseborough, recently mentioned by a Japanese paper, is confirmed by the Yokohama papers received by the mail. The Chesseborough loaded a cargo of…
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