The Apollo Ashore
An inquest was held at Port Augusta on Tuesday upon the bodies of the captain and seamen of the ship Apollo, who were drowned through the cap. sizing of their boat during a squall. An open…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890
519 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 26
Schooner Enterprise
The schooner Enterprise returned to Sydney on Wednesday after an absence of some nine months. During the interval she has been trading among the Solomon Group. The Enterprise spent about…
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A barque ashore at Bampton Reef is reported as having been soon by the master of the schooner Ellangowan, which arrived at Sydney on Monday from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. The…
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The vessel reported ashore at Brampton Reef by Captain Clyne, of the schooner Ellengowan, will probably be the American barque Brazos. This vessel, it will be remembered, went ashore on the…
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The schooner Patonga, belonging, to Sydney, is reported to be missing. The vessels, it is stated, left Sydney over twelve months ago, for Queensland, and on she has not since been heard of, it is…
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The Clarence, Richmond, and Macleay Rivers Steam Navigation company have ordered a new steamer for the northern coastal service, and she is in course of construction at the shipbuilding yard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Secrets of the Deep. a Ple[?]hora of Wrecks
ACCORDING to the report of Captain Roger Turpie, of the missionary barque John Williams, a ship of 1700 tone lies wrecked on one of the Gilbert Group. On an island…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victoria. Steamer Racing
In connection with the alleged narrow escape of a collision between the bay excursion steamers Coogee and Ozone on Sunday morning off the Port Melbourne pier, the…
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The schooner Sea Bird put in as appearance again yesterday from Kaipara, after a run of 15 days. She is laden with sawn timber. Strong westerly winds were carried till Sunday last, when…
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The loss of the American ship Wm. M'Gilvery, well-known in the colonies, is reported. The ship India Empire, which reached Valparaiso on Sept. 27, had on board eight sailors belonging to the Wm…
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Captain Pitt, of the American schooner Robert Searles, reports leaving Melbourne on the 8th instant: had southerly winds with thick weather all along the coast to Lake Macquarie, which was seen…
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The steamer Tweed, which has been in the hands of the Atlas Dock and Engineering Company, Woolwich, for the last seven weeks, was on Friday put under steam for an engineer's trial. The…
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The latest addition to the German-Australian line is the Chemuitz, which was launched from the ship-building and engineering works of Messrs. Alex. Stephens and Sons, at Linthouse, on…
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It was on a reef named the Susanna Coral Reef, at appears, that the barque Tewkesbury L. Sweet struck and went to pieces while on her voyage from Newcastle, N.S.W., to Hongkong. The vessel…
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An inquiry was held by the Sydney Marine Board on Monday with reference to the wreck of the Scotia on 26th December last. Charles Crowley gave evidence to the effect that he occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Run Ashore
Three sailors belonging to the ship Kamerina, from Amsterdam, for disobeyance of orders, have been sent to prison for a month, and are to be sent on board when the…
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Captain Youlden, of the barque Nor'-wester, which has just arrived at Melbourne from Mauritius, reports having passed a portion of a ship's lower mast about 20ft or 30ft in length, with white…
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The barque Germania, from Stettin for New York, beached and went to pieces off the West End Hotel at Long Branch, N.J., during a gale on the night of November 27. Eleven out of her crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Accident to a Steamer
Three days after leaving Dunedin the engines of the steamer Manapouri became partially disabled by the fore-connecting rod breaking, so Captain Logan decided to make…
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BERLIN, Friday.—In the Reichstag to-day Herr Stepsan stated that the steamship lines from Germany to Australia were giving excellent results, and that a double service was…
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