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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
313 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 16
The coasting steamer Electra, which went aground at the Manning River bar on Saturday, shifted during Sunday night a little way towards deep water. A wire received yesterday stated that she was lying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The court of Inquiry which sat at Thursday Island into the wreck of the Kanahooka has reported to the Brisbane Marine Board that the evidence went to show that the vessel was overladen when she left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The well-known schooner Zeno arrived in port yesterday from Launceston, after a smart run of rive days. Captain Fry reports sailing from Launceston on the 9th instant with south—easterly winds, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Grace Darling, which was wrecked on Moreton Island, was formerly named the Isabella Gollan. She was built in 1876 at the Manning River, and came to grief in Moreton Bay. A report from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Morgan, late of the illfated schooner Grace Darling which was wrecked at Moreton Bay, has reported that when he saw that his vessel was gradually dragging ashore, and it was impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday at Sydney Captain Leslie, of the steamer Rob Roy, which arrived there from Queensland ports, reported that the vessel passed through a sea strewn with floating wreckage—kerosene cases…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire from Ballina received yesterday stated that the schooner Mabel White struck some wreckage on Monday night, sprang a leak, and sank early yesterday morning. She was at the time about nine miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The China Navigation Company's steamer Tsinan, in command of Captain Ramsay, arrived at Sydney on Tuesday, from Hongkong, via Queensland ports, the actual steaming time being but 19 days 11 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wreck of the schooner Grace Darling has been sold for £7. DROWNING FATALITY. A little girl named Andrews, aged 10, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Acting Agent-General of Victoria, Sir Andrew Clark, in a communication to the Government, states that Messrs. R. and H. Green, shipbuilders and engineers, of Blackwall, have built a patent steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Time, Captain Drown, returned to Melbourne on Monday after an absence of nearly six months. She sailed from Melbourne on September 27, and proceeded to Bombay, via Torres…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The cargo steamer Indrapura, of the Tyser line, non at Melbourne, quitted London on February 4, too in explosives at Gravesend and sailed again on the 6th, bringing up off the Nore the same afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS of the wreck of the Norwegian barque Strauss at Wallace Island reached Sydney to-day by the steamer Fiona, from Fiji. The crew of the vessel was aboard. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The United States Sloop-of-war Kearsage, which sank the Alabama in 1864, and which was wrecked on February 2 last on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Regarding the wreck of the barque Aarhus, which took place off Cape Moreton on February 24, the Brisbane Marine Board has given its finding. The board consider that the Aarhus was lost through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY word was received in the city which has caused great alarm for the safety of the locally-owned schooner Grecian Bend. A wire from Auckland stated that " A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news of the wreck of the pretty little American schooner Hilo at Hawill is to hand by the mail. The Hile left here for Honolulu on January 7, Captain Le Ballister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE wreck of the cutter Tuggerah, on March 13 at Byron Bay, formed the subject of an inquiry by the Marine Board this afternoon. After hearing the evidence of the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Messrs. Harland and Wolff belong the credit of having built the largest cargo steamer in the world, namely the Cevic, which is intended for the cargo and cattle trade of the White Star Line between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE French cable strainer Francois Arago, which visited Newcastle in November last after successfully laying the cable between Queensland and New Caledonia has arrived…
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