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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
313 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 16
Captain Blanch, master of the ketch, Bronzewing, reported to the South Australian Marine Board last Tuesday morning that on the previous day when entering the Poet River near the reflector beacon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Sunderland steamer Amazona, with a crew of 17, is missing, and is believed to have foundered during a hurricane in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday the steamer Port Phillip, bound from this port to Manila with coal, was off Cape Cleveland and signalled that she had passed a wreck to the south. Inquiries were made of the master of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Aberdeen, of the Aberdeen White Star Line, is due at Sydney this evening, from London. Captain Taylor is still in command, and his officers are:—Messrs. R. M'Killiam, H. Schleman,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE occurred on board the steamer Nair[?]shire, one of the Shire line, from Glassgow, at M'Iiwraith's Wharf, Sussex-street, this morning. The cargo had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The now steamer which is being built to the order of the Balmain New Ferry Company is expected to be ready for service very shortly. The launching gear is to arrive by the incoming steamship Eldorsile in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On November 11 steel screw steamship was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. R. Napier and Sons, Govan, Glasgow, for the work of the London Missionary Society among the South Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—Large quantities of wreckage have boon washed ashore at Margate, Kent, supposed to come from vessels wrecked in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire from Auckland says:—News from Chatham Island states that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's ship Jessie Readman went ashore their on the [?]rd December during thick weather. No lives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been decided by the Victorian Marine Heard to held an inquiry concerning the wreek of the steamer Tenterden in M Donnell Bay, South Australia, the South Australian Marine Board not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The American trading schooner Flour-de-Lis, which was formerly a well-known yacht in San Francisco, sprang a leak in a heavy sea when 40 miles east of Butaritart, and foundered. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The secretary of the Adelaide Marine Board has received a telegram from the Victorian Marino Board in reference to the above wreck, desiring to know whether that board proposes taking any further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. William Doxford and Sons, of Sunderland, Jaunched, on 15th June, a whale-back steamer, No. 218. She has been built on foreign account to the order of Messrs. W. Johnston and Co., of Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Marine Board to-day suspended the certificate of Captain M'Eacharn, of the s.s. Tenterden, for three months, for gross misconduct in navigation, but refused to mulct…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The return of the Marine Board as to wrecks and shipping casualties within the jurisdiction of New South Wales for 1893 shows that there were 15 such disasters, the most considerable being those of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PAI[?]; Wednesday.—An alarming dynzzite, explosion, attended with loss of life, took place at Bordeaux to-day. The Messageries Maritimes' steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A report to hand says the steamer Kiwi returned from Chatham Islands to Wellington on Wednesday with part of the cargo of wool of the Jessie Readman, which was stranded at the islands. When the Kiwi…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The P, and O. Company's R.M.S. Britannia, which loft London on January 5 for Sydney, grounded in the Suez Canal, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Norwegian barque Petrus arrives in the harbour on Saturday from Port Chalmers after a passage of 17 days. Whilst the vessel was lying at Dunedin a steamer came into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Further details with regard to the outbreak of fire on board the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamer Kaikaura while on her…
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