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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
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A cable received from San Francisco reports the total loss of the American barque Southern Chief, with all hands, numbering some 25 souls. The vessel was driven ashore on the Californian coast during a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The barque Ossea stranded on the rocks off Holyhead to-day. The vessel was afterwards swamped and foundered, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some excitement took place on Sunday night at the wrecked steamer Gwydir, which lies on the reef at Norah Head. It appears that the men who were employed salving cargo had camped ashore, leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A report, dated London, December 31, says that the Kirkmichael, barque, 903 tons, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, which was reported in our manage of December 24 to have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT an early hour this morning the ketch Emma Matilda was wrecked on the rocks off North Head. The vessel, which was loaded with maize and sundries, was in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday. — A channel steamer, heavily laden with passengers, ran into Calais pier. The steamer was quickly beached, and no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wreck of the Emma Matilda off North Head on January 2 was yesterday afternoon inquired into by the Sydney Marine Board. John Bernsdorff deposed he was the survivor of the wreck. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday. — Intelligence received from Rio Janeiro reports that a terrible disaster took place in the harbour to-day. A pleasure steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Peterborough, which for some time past has been running between Sydney and Bateman's Bay, attempted to cross the Bar at Bateman's Bay at 10 40 yesterday morning, when she grounded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tasmanian ketch Coral was taken on to the Stockton slip yesterday for an overhaul…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE is a skeleton in every cupboard, and the port of Newcastle is not without the grisly frame of something once possessed of mechanical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Word is to band from Ugi, of the total loss of the new schooner Tivo on San Christoval, in the neighbourhood of Kebeck, on the 12th of November. It appears she had anchored there, when a heavy sea set…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wreck on the steamer Gwydir again changed hands. Mr. N. Herman, who purchased the wrecked steamer has disposed of the vessel at on advance to her old owners, the Newcastle and Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The crew of the Newcastle lifeboat and the members of the Rocket Brigade have born standing by since Monday with everything in readiness to render assistance to any vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government steamer Orestes, which has been up the Hunter River assisting the residents, had the misfortune to take the ground near Raymond Terrace yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Cooreei reached the harbour yesterday afternoon from Clarencetown, on the Williams River. Captain Millar, who is in command, states that he reached…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Word has just come to hand that the missionary vessel Mary was recently driven ashore close to Motu Motu, Papuan Gulf. The Revs. A. Pearse and F. W. Walker, of the London Missionary Society, were on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—During a heavy gale the steamer Escurial was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall. A lifeboat which put out to the aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Cloncurry proves to have only one case of smallpox on board, that of a passenger. This man jumped overboard in a delirium, and the chief…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A STIFF gale from the south-south-east, accompanied by a heavy sea, raged in the vicinity of Trial Bay yesterday. Word came to hand yesterday that during the storm…
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