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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 17
A report of the meeting of the Notional Maritime Relief Organisation, held at Westminster, has been received. For the preceding month relief issues were sanctioned in immediate aid of 517 shipwrecked or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received to the effect that the schooner Mary Warner went ashore near Wollongong during the recent bad weather. She has not sustained any serious damage and may easily be floated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The hull of a wooden vessel, of a tonnage apparently about 500 tons, has been washed ashore at the south head, Kaipara. A number of kauri timber logs also been found on the coast. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MESSRS. RABONE, FEEZ, AND COMPANY have received a wire announcing the loss of the schooner Ellerton, while on a voyage from Townsville to Hobart. She had a crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Mary Warner, which went ashore a [?] days ago near Beagle Bay, was sold as she stood for £110 to Mr. Henry Gibson, of Goodlet and Smith's sawmills. There is some hope of getting her off, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News was received here yesterday by the barque Exceisior that the schooner Ika was driven ashore at the New Hebrides Group during the recent hurricane. It in feared that most of the vessels at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—Great anxiety is felt in shipping circles regarding the safety of the White Star Company's twin-screw steamer Naronic, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Norwegian brig Dato was driven ashore in a northerly gale at a place called Gundalup, which lies close to Fremantle. She had completed her loading when the gale set in, and the captain was just about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—News has been received of the grounding of H.M.S. Undaunted near Alexandria. It is believed that the vessel is in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE little steam water-tank Edith, belonging to Captain Campbell, sank in the harbour during Saturday night. The small vessel was moored alongside the steamer Advance,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Maile, 41 days out from Launceston to Auckland, is believed to be lost. She is a threemasted schooner of 252 tons, owned by Messrs. T. M. Lane and M. A. Clerk, built at Whangaroa in 1884,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Electra, aground at the Manning River, shifted 30ft daring Sunday night towards the channel. She was making a little water, which was being kept down by a hand pump. It is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following notice to mariners has been issued by the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne:—"Mariners an others are informed that the Gambier wreek has been removed, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The harbour steamer Pilot, which sank alongside and rested on the deck of the submerged Cape Verde, in Hobson's Bay recently, has become a complete wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Marine Board on Monday delivered its decision in the case of the loss of the ketch White Cloud, which was wrecked on March 7. The board found that her loss was caused by the vessel parting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire from Auckland dated Monday says:—"Wreekage is still coming ashore on the coast to the north of the Mokau River. Portions of the ship's boats and the port lifeboat, all marked with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following particulars of the search for the missing boat and part crew of the Lady Lampson, lost on a voyage from Sydney to Honolulu are to hand. The search steamer C. B. Bishop returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The three-masted schooner Chittoor arrived at Melbourne on Wednesday from Kaipara, after a very stormy voyage. The schooner, which is under the command of Captain A. Rive, who had his wife on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—Another boat has been found in the Atlantic belonging to the White Star steamer Naronic, which is much overdue at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A quick passage of a little under either days from Kiapara to Sydney was completed on Saturday by the well-known barquentine Grecian Bend. Captain Stirling report having cleared Kiapara Heads on the…
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