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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 17
At midnight of Wednesday, the well-known schooner Samoa drifted on to a reef at Milton, about four males from Ulladulla, and shortly afterwards foundered. From a report to hand it appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—The Spanish steamer Don Juan, owned by Senor P. L. Roxas, of Manila, has been burnt off Manila. One-hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marino Board at to-day's sitting gave their decision concerning the abandonment and wreck of the schooner Saucy Jack on June 12 last, when on a voyage from this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. John Meckiff, builder, of Kneen-street, North Fitzroy, has invented a lifeboat of a novel and useful description, patents for which have been extensively taken out in Europe and America. The boat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire from Auckland states that the steamer Waitara, belonging to the Waitara Harbour Board, has been totally wrecked on the Mokau bar, but no lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The American schooner Wrestler, reached the harbour last evening from Port Chalmers, where she left on the 17th ultimo. She is consigned to Mr. J. M. Rooke, and loads a cargo of coal here for Honolulu…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This vessel is loading a cargo of flour at Port Adelaide for Newcastle. Upon arrival hero she will at once take up a charter for Now Zealand which has been secured for her. Captain Tafte writes from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The search party which was sent out from Hobart to find the ketch Sarai Ann, report the finding of the hull and wreckage two miles from Cape Faure, Schouten Island. The coastline is most treacherous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A COLLISION of a serious nature occurred about 10 miles to the southward of Nobbys yesterday morning, attended, unfortunately by the loss of one life and the total loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report to hand from Mauritius says:—The steamer Resolve, which arrived here on May 24, brought the news that a violent cyclone struck the isles of the Cargados Archipelago, a group in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Ocean Ranger put an appearance in the harbour yesterday morning from Auckland. Captain Mathieson is in command, and the vessel is in to the consignment of Messrs. C. F. Stokes and Co. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following wire was received yesterday from Stanley, Tasmania:—Captain Anderson, of the schooner Le Macl, reports having seen a light on the islet, Kent's Group, last Saturday evening, supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING Thursday night a largo hawser which formed part of the moorings of the steamship Colonist at the dyke was almost cut through by some scoundrel whose name…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Berry's Bay, at the yard of Messrs. Dunn Bros., a steamer was launched recently, and on Friday underwent her trial trip. The new vessel as built for Mr. Davis, of Clarence River, and has the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY morning the local Marino Board met again in connection with the collision on the 19th inst. between the steamer Elingamite and the schooner Guiding Star. Captain H…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Lady Loch has returned to Melbourne from her trip to the islands in the Straits in search of the supposed shipwreck. The fire reported on the island was found to have been caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Barmen, of the German-Australian line, now due at Sydney, reached Adelaide on Thursday morning after a passage of 52 days from Hamburg. She left Hamburg on May 20 and Antwerp on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steam collier Hilda, which it will be remembered was wrecked at Port Hacking Heads early on Thursday morning lost, formed the subject of an inquiry by the Sydney Marine Board on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Marine Board held an inquiry on Monday afternoon concerning the loss of the schooner Samoa, which went ashore at Kiola on the 5th instant. After hearing the evidence of the master,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE German barque Argo, on which the terrible explosion occurred on Saturday, is now being dismantled and the wreckage cleared away, preparatory to a survey being…
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