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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
313 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
The Marine Board inquiry into the grounding of the steamer Thermoply? in the river resulted in the board cautioning Pilot Paxton to be more careful in future. Captain Paxton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WORD has been received of the wreck of the ketch Sea Nymph at Plantation Crook, situated to the northward of Burdekin River. Captain Carmichael, who was in command,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE local Marine Board resumed the inquiry on Saturday into the circumstances concerning the grounding of the steamer Colonist on the Oyster…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A report dated Launceston, Friday, says :—Information has been received that the ketch Wild Wave is ashore at West Sandy Cape and breaking up, and the crew is thought to he drowned. The wreck was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE boisterous weather of the past few days as was feared has done such injury to the stranded steamer Colonist, that the vessel now lies a hopeless wreck on the oyster bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Julia, which was wrecked on a roof known as Kam[?]kame, in the Havan[?]ah Pass, drove ashore in a N.E. gale. Captain Sabatier, of the steam tug Active, made an attempt to tow her off,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marine Board at Townsville have exonerated Captain Carmich[?]el of the schooner Sea Nymph. THE SHEARING TROUBLE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT an early hour this morning the Manly steamer Admiral, which was lying at Circular Quay, narrowly escaped total destruction, by fire. The origin of the outbreak is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News is to hand from Depuch Island to the effect that, in the opinion of the divers who have examined the bottom of the stranded steamer Eddystone, there is very probability of the vessel being got off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE stranded steamer Colonist, which is to be offered for sale by auction this afternoon by Mr. H. H. Lang, appears to have settled down still further yesterday. With fine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report from Perth says a futile attempt has been made to got the vessel off the rocks. She has drifted 100yds from the spot where first she struck, and is now on a more dangerous formation. Hopes are still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marine Board has decided to call the captain and first made of the ship Cambus wallace, wrecked on the 3rd inst. to show cause why their certificates should not be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE sale of the stranded steamer Colonist attracted an unusually large attendance yesterday afternoon at Mr. H. H. Lang's rooms, The vessel as she stands on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To the already long list of shipping casualties which have taken place in these waters a during the past few months, yet another has to be added. This time it is the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Steria King, which arrived last evening from Port Stephons, brought word that the ketch Echo, which went ashore at Port Stephens the previous day, was breaking up. The tug Sir William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest reports show there is no possibility of saving the steamer Devon, ashore at Macquarie Harbour, nor of salving any of her cargo. The vessel is fast settling down in the sand, and exposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable dated London, September 27, says :—The British India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Dorunda, which left Brisbane on the 31st July for London, has been wrecked off Peniche, on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Lyderhorn, a handsome barque of the four-masted order, arrived in port on Saturday after a boisterous passage from Rio Janeiro. Captains Minns, who is in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REPORTS are frequently received of the groundings of vessels whilst crossing in and out at Ballina. Another was to hand yesterday, announcing that the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN the Marine Board mob this afternoon Richard Phillips, engineer of the steamer Waldemar, pleaded guilty to having caused the fire in the Vessel's boiler on September 19…
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