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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 16
Messrs. Money Wigram and Sons have just had another the steamer built for the Australian trade. She was launched on March 2 from the yard of Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson, and is said to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The finding of the Court of Inquiry re the above collision, which occurred in the English Channel, exonerated the captain of the Largo Bay from blame in the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPTAIN Donald M'Leman and two sailors, the survivors of the ketch Maggie Taylor, which it will be remembered foundered off Camden Haven bar last week, were passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The s.s. Ranelagh, due at Brisbane on Monday morning from Rockhampton and Maryborough, met with an accident to her machinery which necessitated her anchoring when within…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.—There was some excitement yesterday morning when the R.M.S. Mariposa, which left here for San Francisco on Monday, returned to port. It was soon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YESTERDAY afternoon, the crew of the schooner Mary Campbell landed at Port Macquarie in the Government tugboat Rhea, the schooner having sprung a leak when in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News comes from Long Island, a well-known guano depot, of the loss of the French steamer Reine des Isles. It seems, from intelligence brought by the Agnes Martin to Auckland, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday last, the steamer Centennial, formerly the Albion, which is now owned by Mr. J. C. Ellis, and is intended for the New Zealand trade, made a trial trip in Port Jackson. The new triple…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ship Dallam Tower, which, it will be remembered, went ashore on an unknown reef off the coast of Java whilst on route from Newcastle to Sourabaya, was passed by the barque Solgyit which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The new steamer City of Paris has accomplished the fastest run on record across the Atlantic, having made the passage between Queenstown,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By the arrival of the s.s. Catterthun from Hongkong, particulars of the loss of the barque Transit are to hand. The vessel struck on a sunken reef outside the Gillolo passage, near the Molaccas, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a rumour was freely circulated about the city to the effect that the Orient Company's R.M.S. Ormuz had been lost with all hands. For a time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Caird and Co., shipbuilders, of Greenock, launched last month the Hongkong, which is the second of four cargo steamers ordered to be built by the P. and O. Company for the Eastern trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to the rough state of the sea, the steamer Newcastle, which was to have left for Sydney last night, would not put our, and postponed sailing till this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DURING the thick mist caused by the heavy rain on Friday night the steam collier Duckenfield, owned by Messrs. J. and A. Brown, of Bolton-street, went ashore at Long…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain Foot, of the National steamship Holland, from New York, reports that on the 8th ult., while in lat. 47deg. 58min., 19deg. 22min. west, he sighted the waterlogged German barque Emelie, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Diana, 754 tons, Captain Stephens, which left this port on Saturday for Sourabaya, encountered the heavy weather which prevailed on the coast, and during a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The extremely boisterous weather and the heavy sea outside Nobbys caused much inconvenience, as well as considerable risk to those who were endeavouring to enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday.—H.M.S. Surprise, 4 guns, attached to the Mediterrancan squadron, is ashore at Syracuse, after having been in collision with another vessel, the name of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The steamship Australian, the first of the four new vessels being built by the Messageries Maritimes Company for the Australian trade, has been…
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