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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
313 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 16
Captain Kennedy, of the Terranora, has reported to the Wellington Marino Department that he examined the wreckage off the Mobaka River, but was unable to remove it. The visible wreckage is portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The captain of the tug Leveret, of Sydney, reported having had a narrow escape from colliding with some wreckage off the coast. The Leveret was about five miles east of Terrigal at 4 o'clock last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Melbourne Harbour Trust derrick the other day raised the fouled anchors of the paddle-steamer Lonsdale. The chain was twisted round the top and bottom of the anchor in a very peculiar manner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Mohican, belonging to the Manhanset Line; running between Bristol and New York, recently arrived at Bristol, having on board the captain and crew of the vessel Kate, of St…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A DENSE fog enveloped the harbour and bight yesterday morning, which caused considerable delay and anxiety to shipping. One little vessel, the ketch Dolly Wamsley,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ketch Dolly Wamsley, which drifted on to the boulders at Stoney Point in the harbour on Wednesday morning during a dense fog, still lies in the same position. At low water yesterday a portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Dolly Wamsley, which was wrecked on Stony Point in the harbour on Wednesday, was in the same position yesterday. The balance of her cargo of hardwood was discharged at low water. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday an unsuccessful attempt was made to float the ketch Dolly Walmsley, which drifted on to the boulders at Stoney Point last Wednesday during a fog. Mr. Peter Callen, who has got the contract to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Dolly Wamsley still lies stranded in the same position at Stoney Point. The vessel will be offered for sale by auction to-day. The contract for raising the vessel was not let to Mr. Callen as stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Callisto, from Sunderland to Baltimore, was stranded last night at Horse Cove, Newfoundland. The crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire received from Gabo yesterday stated that the lighthouse-keeper who boarded the steamer Glaucus was informed by the officers that the steamer had passed a ship's masts with portion of rigging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquiry was hold yesterday by the local Marino Board into the cause of the stranding of the ketch Dolly Wamsley at Stoney Point. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the steamer Sydney yesterday morning two local fishermen were passengers, who it appears were shipwrecked recently and cast away upon Broughton Island, where they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. W. W. Johnson's steamer Maggie Johnson left the Cockle Creek railway station at 10 o'clock with a good many people who had gone from Newcastle by the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cable to hand dated Sourabaya, May 28, says:—The Buceleuch, ship, 1934 tons, of Liverpool, bound for Newcastle in ballast, went ashore in leaving port, and remains fast. There is no danger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Hygeia is totally wrecked on the coast of New Guinea. EXCISE DUTY ON TOBACCO. It is understood that the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Wastwater, which was the property of Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co., has been ashore at Savannah. A report dated April 23 says, "British steamer Wastwater is ashore in the tideway of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Brinkworth, of Mr. John Dalton's tug Emu, reports having spoken the schooner Lark yesterday about 20 miles east-north-east of Nobbys. The Lark, which is bound from the Solomon Islands to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News reached Nagasaki that the Drumeltan, which left Shanghai on the 14th April, had gone ashore. The "Rising Sun" says: "Telegraphic news was received from Kagoshima of the stranding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Word was received by the steamer Hesketh in Sydney yesterday, that the labour schooner Ariel was wrecked at Santa Ana early in May. The recruits and crew are being token on to Bundaberg by the…
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