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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 17
ONE of the steerage passengers on board the steamer Woolloomooloo has developed smallpox symptoms. Two cases from the same vessel are now in quarantine on Torrens…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars by mail say that the ship Earl of Shaftesbury, from Bombay to Rangoon, was wrecked under extraordinary circumstances off the coast of Ceylon. The captain mistook the Barberyn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the steamer Karaweera was steaming up the Port Adelaide River on Monday morning she grounded when near the quarantine station. No damage is anticipated to the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Marine Board to-day held an inquiry into the wreck of the brigantine Saucy Jack, which went ashore near Coff's Harbour on June 12…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the official catalogue of the Chicago Exhibition is the following reference to the P. and O. S.N. Co.:—The first steamer dispatched with mails by the present Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The derelict which was sighted off Cape Foulwind, is the Auckland cutter Lizzie, 40 tons, which left Hokitika for Onchunga on the 9th inst., laden with pine sleepers. Shortly after the vessel sailed bad…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire from Sourabaya says:—"The British General, ship, 1754 tons, Captain Tulloch, of Liverpool, which loft Newcastle 18th May for Batavia, grounded in the Baly Straits, Sunday Islands, on 18th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A new ketch of about 20 tons, built to the order of Mr. J. C. Smith for the New Guinea Government, will be launches from the shipbuilding yard of Mr. Mark Davis, at Brisbane Water, on Saturday next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fastest paddle steamer afloat is the Leopold II., which has just been handed over to the Belgian Government to take her station on the mail and passenger service between Ostend and Dover, Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sagami Maru, a Japanese steamer and one of the latest addition to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, arrived in port yesterday from Sydney. The vessel is on her first voyage to the colonies, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Since returning from Scotland, some three months ago, I have written several letters to Mr. David Miller and Mr. W. J. Gillam, directors of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.—An eye-witness of the disastrous, collision in the Mediterranean between H.M.S. Victoria and Camperdown states that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fine steamship Nairnshire put an appearance in port yesterday, from Port Pirie, where she discharged a cargo of coal from Cardiff. She left Port Pirie on the 24th instant, and had a good run…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The colonially-owned schooner Frank Guy reached the harbour on Saturday from Melbourne, after a good run of five days. She is in command of Captain M'Quarrie, and is in to into the consignment of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE placard which has been posted in all the maritime towns of Australia, warning intending passengers against travelling in vessels manned by non-unionists, may be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cablegram published under date April 29, said:—"The crew of the ship Templemore, from Wallaroo, South Australia, which was wrecked in the Pacific, have arrived at Southampton. The men, who escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensational incident occurred on the voyage of the barque Clan Ferguson, which arrived at Auckland on Wednesday day last from New York, via Wellington. The barque, it appears, called at the Island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The cutter Mersey was on June 24 ashore near Separation Point, and it is feared she will become a total wreck. [The Mersey is a cutter of the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some men working on the beach the other side of Oakura, south of New Plymouth, N.Z., on June 24 (says the Auckland Herald) report seeing the bow part of a ship boat on which was pointed in black…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ship Dunboyne, from Port Pirie, which has arrived at London, reports that on May 12, in 40 N. 40 W, she passed a derelict schooner, dismasted and full of water. Her after part was charred and…
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