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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
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YESTERDAY afternoon Captain D. Williams' river steamer Allyn sunk in the harbour, having on board 800 bags of general produce. It appears that the Allyn had been used as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The Danish barque Marie, bound from Mozambique to Adelaide, was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar and plundered by the natives of the island. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Aratapu reached the harbour yesterday from Mercury Bay. The captain of the schooner reports leaving Mercury Bay on the 12th instant. Experienced light variable winds and fine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Williams' steamer Allyn which sunk in the harbour on Wednesday, still lies in the same position. Captain Williams was unable to secure the services of a diver yesterday to go down and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SEAMAN named Thomas Johnston, alias Frank Sutty, was arrested by Detective M'Hattie and Constable Knight about 11 o'clock yesterday morning on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is every hope of having the steamer Allyn, which sunk in the harbour on Wednesday, afloat to-day. Two pontoons were placed in position over the sunken boat yesterday with Spars across…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nearly 300 tons of coal have been recovered in baskets from the sunken steamer Centennial in Sydney Harbour. An attempt will be made to lift the vessel in the course of three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cablegram announces the Ashleigh Brook, s, reported as being a total wreck a few miles to the westward of the Cape of Good Hope, was not, as has been supposed, bringing out cargo to these…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Williams steamer Allya, which sunk in the harbour on Wednesday, was partly raised on Saturday night. The divers, who experienced some difficulty. owing to the strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Newport, of Dundee, from Kennetpans for Aberdeen, with coals, sprang a leak when off Redhead, near Montrose, Scotland, and sank. The crew of nine men…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE smack Dart arrived at Grimsby recently, having on board John William Nelson, steward; James M'Court, fireman; and David Smith, seaman ; sole survivors of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Instruction have been issued by the United States Navy Department to blow up the wrecks of the Trenton and Vandalia, which were lost in the hurrieano of 1889 at Samoa. The wreek of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sperber, one of the vessels of the German Imperial Navy, arrived at Melbourne from Zanzibar on Saturday, where she had formed one of the the German squadron which has lately been so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME little commotion was caused in West Maitland this evening by the arrival of a steamer on the waters of the Hunter River. The pants of the vessel is the Kate. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The four-masted ship Ensemere went ashore last mouth on Palmyras reef, near Calcutta, and would probably become a total wreck. The crew were all landed at Calcutta. The ship at last accounts had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE seafoam, ketch, which went ashore on the North Stockton beach about four months ago was successfully floated on Wednesday night. Immediately after she was got off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The pilot at Cape Hawke telegraphed to the secretary of the Marine Board, Sydney, on Friday: —"The Express arrived off the bar at 11.30 a.m. to-day (Friday) and signalled for a tugboat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Sea Foam, which was recently floated off the beach at Port Stephens, arrived in Sydney on Saturday. The vessel is not seriously damaged, and in a few days should be in commission again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The City of Rome, 8144 tons, one of the Anchor line of Atlantic steamers, ran on Fastnet Island, off the Irish coast, during a dense fog and broke her stem…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Pacific Island labour office has received the log of the schooner Nantihus with reference to the tragedy recently enacted whilst cruising in the South Seas. The…
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