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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
429 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 22
In connection with the recent standing of the salvage vessel End-avour near Cream Creek, Victoria, while in charge of Captain Robinson, of the Underwriters' Association, it seems not a little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Portland (Oregon) man has invented a device by which he hopes to save injured vessels from destruction His idea is to build tubes in the hull of a vessel, opening at the lower end into the sea by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A pretty little fore-and-aft schooner intended for the Torres Straits pearl fishery has been built at the shipbuilding yard of Mr. W. M'F. Ford, Berry Bay, Sydney. The new boat has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The crew of the schooner Royal Duke arrived at Thursday island on Wednesday and reported that their vessel, while bound from Normanton to Thursday Island with cattle, foundered off Para…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Camperdown on Thursday, several persons were each fined 25 and cast for securing dutiable articles tram the wreck of the barque Fiji…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steamer Moselle was totally wrecked at Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama. The passengers and crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Zealand Government has cabled to the Government of New South Wales, asking to have a search made by a man-of-war for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On September 18 last there was launched from the yard of Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson at Paisley the screw-steamer Upolo, which has been built to the order of the Union S.S. Company of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steamer which has been built at Terrigal for Mr. G. W, Nicoll, Victoria Wharf, was to be launched yesterday, The new vessel is named the Byron, and is intended for the Byron Bay and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—Later information regarding the burning of a British steamer on the coast of Greece states that twenty perished, including the captain's wife and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, November 5.—The ship Strathblane, bound from Honolulu, has been wrecked at Astoria, Oregon. The Captain and five of the crew were drowned. The Strathblane was a vessel of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Tweed, in coming out from the Tweed Heads yesterday, went ashore on the south spit about 3.30 p.m. The vessel would probably float off at high water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Geelong, dated November 7, says :—Some weeks since, during a severe westerly gale, the schooner Endeavour, belonging to the Underwriters' Association was driven ashore near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The ship Benvenue, bound to London from Sydney, went ashore at Sandgate. She has become a total wreck. The captain, his wife, boy, and five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News from [?] by the R. M. S. [?] that nothing has [?] of the missing [?] Quiros, on August, 14. Little hopes are new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The recent great storm has been the worst that has been experienced for years on the English coast. After heroic efforts and repeated unsuccessful launchinge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Thomas Mahon, of the New Zealand owned schooner Jessie, which reached the harbour on Sunday evening, reports having let Auckland on 27th October with strong south-east…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday morning the schooner Congo reached the harbour after a rough trip from Kaipara. On the run she fell in with a continuance of heavy gales with high angry seas. Several of The latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest advices from the wreck of the Bonvenue at Sandgate (Eng.) go to show that a portion at least of the cargo will be recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The steamer Duke of Argyle left Aden on Monday…
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