A Novel Schooner
The American schooner Mannie Swann, now at Auckland, possesses some unusual features which are not often seen in sailing vessels visiting here. She has very taut spars, and carries a skysail yard…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1893
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 17
Ketch Eleetwing.—run Down
The kotch Fleetwing, 56 tons, belonging to Captain J. Leask and J. Carton, bound from Salt Crook to Port Adelaide, was run into by the fishing cutter Dalrymple, about three miles on the lighthouse, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ivanhoe Ashore
The schooner Ivanhoe, which was chartered by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co. to rue between Thursday land and New Guinea, and which woo reported as having put into Cooktown damaged, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Sydney Pilot Steamer
The new pilot steamer Captain Cook, built and engined by Mort's Dock and Engineering Company, will be handed over to the Government on Monday next, when the vessel will make a trial trip with I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in the Harbour. a Government Steamer Sunk by the S.S. TIME. All Hands Saved. The Sunken Vessel Cost £25,000
CONSIDERING the large amount of shipping which takes place at this port during the year the records exhibit remarkably few accidents, collisions in particular being conspicuous by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Orari.—lifeboat Washed Away
The Orari, barque, from London, a fine vessel formerly belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Co., but lately purchased for the colonial trade, arrived at Adelaide on Sunday. She sailed from London on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supposed Wreck.—a Boat with 20 Castaways
Captain Kerry, of the schooner Harold, which recently put into Noumea, reports having sighted a boat driving before the gale in the vicinity of Elizabeth Reef. The sea was too high to enable the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Wreck Sighted
A wire dated Valparaiso, February 1, says the captain of the Miramar, s, at Talcahuano, reports that on the 23rd ult., in the Bay of San Antonio, he sighted, the wreck of a vessel which is danger to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Templemore
LONDON, Sunday.—The survivors from the wrecked ship Templemore have arrived in London. Their story shows that they endured great hard-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Sydney Pilot Steamer
The formal handing over to the Government and official trial trip of the new Sydney pilot steamer Captain Cook, which has been constructed by the Mort's Dock and Engineering Company, took place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Rosedale Ashore. In a Dangerous Position
A WIRE was received yesterday from the Manning Heads stating that the steamer Rosedale when coming out got aground on the north spit of the bar. She was in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S.s. Rosedale.—still Ashore
The North Coast Company's steamer Rosedale, which grounded at the Manning River bar on Wednesday, was still in the same position yesterday. A wire received last evening stated that she was not in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anxiety for a Ketch
The ketch Sarah Ann, which left Launceston for Hobart a fortnight ago laden with timber, has not since been heard of, and fears for her safety are entertained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Pearling Schooner
The Aladdin is the name of a handsome topsail schooner recently built by Mr. Walter Reeks Berry's Bay, Sydney. The Aladdin is intended for the Torres Straits pearl fishing industry, and is to sail hence in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Duke of Sutherland
The steamer Duke of Sutherland, of Barrow, which left Penarth on February 16, for Sydney, and was towed into St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) on February 28, with her shaft broken, has completed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Missing Schooner Maile
In connection with the missing schooner Maile, Captain John Bradley, harbour-master at Launceston, reports:—"From the result of our search I am forced to conclude that the schooner Maile has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lund's Steamer Culgoa
The steamer Culgoa, of Lund's Blue. Anchor line, which reached Adelaide on Friday, mode the passage from London, via Las Palmas, in 41 days. A report to hand from Adelaide says:—On March 23 a start…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barque Freetrader Ashore
The barque Freetrader, Captain Bowden, from Hobart to Wianganni, timber-laden, has gone ashore at the Wanganui Heads. It is doubtful if the vessel will be got off. The Freetrader is well known in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Campania. the Record Broken
LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Campania has just crossed the Atlantic from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 15 hours, this being the fastest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gowanburn.—more Wreckage
A search has been made along the coast between Kaiapara and Maukau, and bas resulted in the discovery of a large quantity of wreckage, undoubtedly belonging to the ship Gowanburn…
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