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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 17
NEWS of the wreck of the steamer Dicky on the Queensland coast is to hand. The vessel was bound from the Fitzroy River, and, after a call at Wide Bay, she was compelled to seek…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain H. Hackett, who arrived at Sydney on Thursday with the mate and two seamen belonging to the former vessel, states that he left Camden Haven for Sydney on Tuesday, the 14th instant, in the tow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the toss of the three-masted schooner Jessie at the Chesterfield Island is to hand, where she had gone to load a cargo of guano for New Zealand. The vessel had anchored off one of the islands,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS was received here on Saturday to the effect that the barquentine Buster was driven ashore, a couple of hundred yards north of the jetty, at Woolgoolga. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The shipwrecked crew of the New Zealand owned barquentine Jessie arrived from Nonmea at Sydney on Sunday by the steamer Port Melbourne. Captain T. Mahon says:—" We left Auckland for Long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Albatross, which went round to Waratah Bay last week from Melbourne to drag the ketch Coquette into shallow water, has returned without the object of her mission having been accomplished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams have been received from Captain Laidman, underwriters' surveyor, concerning the position in which he found the schooner Buster upon arrival at Woolgoolga. Captain Laidman says:—"We…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE river steamer Berlinda, which ran aground at the north-eastern end of Mosquito Island on Tuesday afternoon, was success ally floated at high tide. Captain Williams. had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The circumstances of the loss of the Jessie at the Chesterfield Group last month were inquired into by the Sydney Marine Board on Tuesday. The master, Thomas Mahon, deposed that the vessel arrived at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Richmond, now at Auckland, brings news of another wreck at the Islands. This was in the case of the schooner Faito, a French vessel, which was lost on Raiatea, one of the Society Group. T[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE three-masted schooner Pendle Hill, which arrived here yesterday from Napier, N.Z., in ballast, seems to have had a trying time of it on the voyage across. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE little schooner Magic, bound from the Solomon Islands to Sydney, which put into Port Stephens through stress of weather, appears to have had an unusually boisterous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the past few months rumours have frequently been circulated in the city that certain vessels have been wrecked and all hands lost. In each instance these rumours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About noon yesterday the schooner Rio reached the harbour from Napier Captain Dunn in command. Unlike the Pendie Hill and Kate Tatham, which also have arrived from that port, she had a fine-weather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The many friends of Captain Petersen, of the schooner Enterprise will regret to learn that he was washed overboard on the voyage hence to Townsville and drowned. The Enterprise arrived at Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full particulars are to hand with regard to the loss of the labour schooner Foam off the Queensland coast. The captain's narrative is as follows :—"I left Dungeness at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday afternoon the schooner Jasper reached the harbour from Lyttelton, in command of Captain Burton. She left there on the 17th ultimo, and name through Cook Strait, but, unlike the recent arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What has the appearance of a calamity in mid-ocean is reported by the master of the barque Glonlora, bound from London to Nelson, New Zealand. He states that when in 47° E. 15°34 S. he sighted a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Marine Board found that the loss of the barquentine Jessie was caused by its parting the cables of the anchors, and being driven out to sea by a hurricane, after the crew had left her to take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Auckland advices state that the colonial schooner Falcon, with a cargo of flour from Timaru to wanganui, went ashore on the Wanganui bar. She was in tow of the Stormbird, when the line parted and she…
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