A Ketch Ashore
A telegram from Adelaide yesterday evening conveyed the information that the ketch Lotus had parted her cable during the previous night and gone ashore at Kingston…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 16
South Australia. Adelaide, Friday Night. a Ketch Ashore
The ketch Loftus went ashore at Kingston in a heavy gale last night, and Captain Russell was killed. A STEAMER WRECKED…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Cowry Wrecked
News came to hand yesterday by wire that the steamer Cowry had become a total wreck off Normanville, and that all hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked Steamer Matai
The inquiry into the circumstances of the wreck of the steamer Matai on the New Zealand coast has terminated. The captain and the officers were exonerated from blame. The weather at Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Kind of Steamer
A steamer called the Evolution is about to be launched in the waters of New York, which is built upon an entirely different plan, so far as concerns propulsion and steering, from any other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Steamer for N.z. Trade
The Union Steamship Company have arranged for the steamer Bothwell Castle to run in the New Zealand trade for a few months. The steamer arrived at Sydney from Bombay with wheat, and will,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Fijian. Captain's Certificate Suspended
THE Sydney Marine Board delivered its decision on Monday on the inquiry relative to the wreck of the steamship Fijian, which ran aground at the island of Tanna on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Poetry. Man the Lifeboat
COLD and grey the day is falling, On the bar the surf is rolling; Snow-white foam each bill scatters, Burst o'er the waste of waters…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreck of the Maggie Scott. Narrow Escape of the Crew
BY the arrival of the barque Veritas (Captain Creighton) from Java, at Port Jackson, on Saturday morning, Captain Denton and the crow of the Maggie Scott were brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. Detention of a Fishing Ketch
The Customs authorities state that they have no intention of proceeding against the Sydney fishing ketch Gratitude which while engaged in fishing off the coast recently was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland. Accident to the Steamer Derwent
The superintendent of telegraphs has received a message stating that Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Derwent went ashore at Rocky Inlet on Wednesday night. A later…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Barque Brazos. Nine Days in an Open Boat. The Vessel Abandoned
BRISBANE, Friday Night.—Last night, a boat containing the captain, his wife, the stewardess, and seven of the crew of the American barque Brazos, bound to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Three-masted Schooner Jennie B.
The Jennie B., which left here on May 11, bound to Wallaroo, has had a trying time since. She was compelled to put into Port Jackson on the 14th ultimo, to repair damages sustained in the interval…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck on the Zealand Coast. Captain and Mate Drowned
Very thick and boisterous weather prevailed along the New Zealand coast early this month, more particularly on the east of the North Island, with the result that another shipwreck has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked Barque Brazos
The Brazos left here under home charter for the Borneo Company, Hongkong. It is not known whether she was insured or not. The name of her captain was J. H. Edgett, and not Judson as was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Accident to the Steamer Glanworth
The steamer Glanworth left for Sydney at midnight on Saturday, with a large number of passengers, including the pantomime company. While going down the river, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fears for H.M.S. Dart. a Boat and Several Life-Buoys Washed Ashore
AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—Considerable fears are entertained of the safety of H.M.S. Dart, which left this port for Sydney after having been refitted. One of her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament. Tuesday, June 25, 1889. Legislative Assembly. Central Cumberland Election. The Hamilton Pit Disaster. The Late Mr. John Sutherland, M.P. Removal of Wrecks from Richmond River. Advertising Hoardings. Another Temporary Supply Bill. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night
THE SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. CENTRAL CUMBERLAND ELECTION. The SPEAKER announced the return of Mr. David Dale to fill the Vacancy for Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Stranding of a Steamer
The Marine Board has decided that the recent stranding of the steamer Hesketh, on the Wide Bay bar, was the result of neglect on the part of Captain Rowe to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Barque Brazos. Safety of the Missing Boat
ACTING under instructions, Captain Boult, harbour-master at Maryborough, started on Sunday mording to search for the missing boat of the wrecked barque Brazos. Wiring…
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