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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 17
About one of the largest schooners afloat is the Governor Ames, which put an appearance in the harbour yesterday from Port Pirie. The Governor Ames, which is a sightly looking vessel of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to the heavy weather outside in the bight during yesterday, the signal for the crew of the lifeboat to stand by was hoisted at the signal station in the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At an early hour yesterday morning the little schooner Daphne, bound from the Richmond River to Sydney, put into the harbour through stress of weather. On the run down the coast from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Senate, at Ottawa, on July 6, Mr. Scott asked for the latest information as to the recent seizures of British vessels in Alaska. Sir John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner Clara, with one white passenger, Mr. S. A. Bowman, and 25 Fijians on board, bound from Loma Loma to Levuka, went ashore on the outer reel at Wakaya. The occurrence took place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner reported ashore at Crookhaven Heads proved to be the Advance, coal laden, from this port to Shoalhaven. It appears that she entered the River on Sunday last, and apparently,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE French ironclad Hoche came into collision recently about 18 miles off Marseilles with the transatlantic steamer Marechal Canrobert. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE Quiraing, s, arrived at Cooktown to-day from the north. Captain Thompson reports that the large steamer Kent in ashore on the south-east end of the I Reef, 280 miles north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram was received from Woolgoolga to the effect that the barquentine Frank Guy had gone ashore there. The vessel, it appears, was moored at Woolgoolga when an easterly gale set in, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch William and Alexander, coal laden from this port to Sydney went ashore at Terrigal Haven at 6.30 on Saturday morning, and has now become a total wreck. The ketch was loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several shipwrecks were reported on eastern waters just before the steamer Tsinan left Hongkong, amongst them being the China merchant steamer Heinheng. she came to grief in a fog, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Oamaru arrived at Melbourne on Monday from Devenport, having put in to get some new spars, and also to load a cargo for Cossack, Western Australia. She left James Island on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French steamer Loire Inferieure is at present on Peters' slip at Brisbane, undergoing repairs rendered necessary through going ashore in Torres Straits whilst en route to Saigon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A YOUNG man named Michael Ryan met with a very serious accident yesterday afternoon on board the steamer Matatua, which is berthed at the eastern wharf loading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FISHERMAN named Charles Krause, 35, with his son, aged 5, left his residence, Balmoral, at 11 o'clock on August 23 in a sailing boat about 18ft in length, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huddart, Parker, and Co., Limited, are informed by their London office that their new steamer Warrimoo, of the New Zealand and Australasian Steamship Company, Limited, will leave London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—A telegram from Calcutta announces that the Anglia, of the Anchor line, has capsized in the Hooghly. Fifteen persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BATAVIA, Friday.—The British-India S. N. Company's Avoca, from London July 21, left here yesterday for Queensland ports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French mail steamer Tanais arrived at Sydney on Friday, from Noumea. She had 177 passengers, the majority being booked through to Marseilles. The Tanais left Noumea on the 22nd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Kent, lately reported ashore on "I" Reef, North Queensland Coast, while bound from this port to java, was floated off again uninjured, and continued her voyage…
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