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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
519 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 26
The steamer Wyrallah arrived here yesterday morning from the Richmond River. When being towed out from Ballina by the tug Protector on Friday the tug was struck by a heavy sea, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Tomki, which has been aground at Ballina for some days, successfully floated yesterday, and was towed up to the wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Lubeck, from Samoa and Tonga, brings news of severe wrecks having occurred on the Islands. The American trading schooner H. L. Tierman, capsized…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coasting schooner Alert is now alongside the A.A. Company's wharf, where she is being caulked and undergoing some repairs, under the supervision of Captain Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The brig Wild Wave (belonging to Messrs. J. C. Berger and Co., of this city), bound for Sydney with 144,000ft of timber, has gone ashore on the north spit at Kaipara. She struck during low…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LORD SALTOUN and the Duke of Fife both hail from coasts where the saving of life at sea is thoroughly understood. Cairnburg and Macduff each receive a share of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The schooner Pendle Hill arrived in the harbour yesterday afternoon from Napier, Now Zealand, with a full cargo of produce consigned to Messrs, Earl, Gillam, and Co. Captain Widerstrom reports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →INFORMATION has been received by the Geenock Steamship Company of the loss of their steamer the Gulf of Aden, which left the Clyde bound for Valparaiso on 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Intelligence has been received that the British-India Company's s.s Dacca, 3909 tons, Captain Stuart, R.N.R., which left London on April 30th, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The secretary to the Brisbane Marine Board received a telegram from the harbourmaster at Mackay to the effect that the ketch Eliza left that port about a month ago for the various creeks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Marine Board has been informed that the steamer L'Avenir, laden with coal and coke for Port Pirie, has been stranded at Westbank, in Spencer's Gulf. A tug has been sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE wreck of the stranded steamer Riverina as it now lies it Ram Head, with all machinery and belongings that may exist , has been sold by auction by Messrs. John Fraser to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The passengers by the British India Company's steamer Dacca, which was wrecked on a reef in the Red Sea, numbered 419, mostly female emigrants…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The cable steamer Scotia is expected to return to Sydney in a day or two to load coal for Mauritius. Thence she will proceed via the Cape of Good Hope to London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Badgwith, near The Lizard, a bottle has been washed ashore containing a card with the message, "Steamer Erin, Captain M'Ginty, at the bottom of the sea." On the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CAPETOWN, Monday.—The steamer Ashleigh Brook, 1915 tons, Captain Fanquier, while bound from London to Rookhampton, Queensland, was totally wrecked on Dessen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COLLISION occurred last month bettween Seaham and Hartlepool, between the screw steamer Altyre, of Aberdeen, and the screw steamer Fuclid, of Sunderland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The three-masted schooner, Edith May, which recently encountered the full force of the heavy weather on the northern coast, returned to Sydney on Tuesday, here she will receive an overhaul…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer, Scotia, returned to Sydney on Tuesday, after successfully laying a cable between this colony and New Zealand. Whilst laying the cable a tremendous gale and high sea was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Richmond, belonging to Messrs. Donald and Edenborough, of Auckland, and engaged in the island trade, which is a fortnight overdue from Tahiti, Samoa,…
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