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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
313 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16
During Monday night and part of yesterday the schooner Jones Brothers was alongside the wrecked steamer Colonist, when a quantity of coal was salved and stowed away in the hold of the schooner. Last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Marine Court delivered judgment in the cases against the captain and second mate of the steamer Bodondo to-day. They found that the charge against Captain Hill of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE well-known coasting steamer Bowra, whilst on a voyage from Newcastle to Byron Bay on Saturday foundered in the vicinity of Seal Rocks. All bands were saved. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE local Marino Board will hold an inquiry to-day into the cause of the foundering of the steamer Bowra, which took place off Seal Rocks on Saturday last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE local Marino Board hold an inquiry yesterday concerning the foundering of the steamer Bowra, which took place off Seal Rocks on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner Isabel, bound from Leven to Melbourne foundered near Hummock Island on Tuesday. All hands were saved. The schooner sank very rapidly, and everything was lost. She had a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The China Navigation Company's steamer Chingtu arrived yesterday from Melbourne to load coal for Hongkong. The Chingtu left Hongkong in the typhoon season, and whilst crossing the China Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONCERNING the foundering of the steamer Bowra off Seal Rocks on Saturday last, the local Marine Board gave the following decision yesterday:—"The heard found that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TERRIBLE shipping disaster was reported here this morning, when the total loss of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Wairarapa and 136 lives was telegraphed from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the wreck of the Union Steamship Company's Wairarapa created a great amount of excitement in the Maitland district, and particulars of the dreadful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A cable received from London states that it is reported that the Dorunda, D.I.S.S., which went ashore as Peniche on the 37th September, is now breaking up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Postmaster-General has received information that 83 bags of mails and two hampers of parcels have been recovered from the wreck of the Wairarapa, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE work of recovering the drowned from the wreck of the Waiarrapa is proceeding in the vicinity of Great Barrier Island. So far 36 bodies have been found, the majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE calamitous wreak of the Wairarapa when within a few hours' sail of her destination suggests food for reflection whatever may be the results…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Bittern was at Hongkong on October 4, and sailed for Singapore on the 20th. Captain Stronach reports having been in a typhoon on the voyage from Albany to Hongkong, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—A Board of Trade inquiry is being held as to the case of the wreck of the British-India Company's steamer Dorunda on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MAGISTERIAL inquiry into the circumstances of the wreck of the Wairarapa was opened at Auckland on Monday. Twenty-six witnesses…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A report, dated Auckland, Tuesday, says:—News from Tonga states that the schooner Jiale Taf[?], with Mr. Tukuaho on board, has been shipwrecked on the reefs at Namuka. No lives were lost, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE magisterial inquiry concerning the wreck of the Wairarapa was continued at Auckland on Tuesday and adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE magisterial inquiry into the circumstances of the wreck of the Wairarapa was continued at Auckland on Wednesday, and again adjourned…
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