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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
257 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 13
WHILST crossing the bar at Port Macquarie on Saturday afternoon, the well-known ketch Candidate capsized, and every soul on board was drowned. There was a heavy sea on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report to hand dated Napier, February 11, says :—"The ketch Strathmore, which left here for Hokitika on January 18th, returned to port on Saturday night, having been forced to put back by very severe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Marine Board yesterday afternoon gave the following decision concerning the abandonment and wreck of the schooner Margaret Jane, at Trial Bay on January 31:—"In the opinion of this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE funeral of the captain and cook of the Candidate to-day was largely attended. The procession was nearly a mile long. The Rev. Canon Kemmis officiated at the grave. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report to hand from Wanganui says :—The Oreti, which was despatched from Wellington with gear for the Hoating of the Manawatu, now lying piled up at the entrance to the river, also came to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Jasper arrived yesterday from Launceston, after a passage of 10 days. Captain Burton reports leaving the port of departure on the 12th instant, with northerly and north-easterly winds,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Allan, nautical adviser to the Government, in an exhaustive report of the wreck of the Wairarapa, agrees generally with the finding of the Court, and makes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s now steamship Anglian, a description of which has already appeared in the "Newcastle Herald," made her acquaintance with this port yesterday, when she arrived from New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following cablegram was received yesterday afternoon:—"Schooner Grace Dent, with timber, from Clarence River reported wrecked on Wanganui bar, New Zealand." The Grace Dent left the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Perthshire, a sister vessel to the Buteshire, of the well-known "Shire" line, reached Melbourne from London on Tuesday. She has a large quantity of general merchandise for Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Upwards of 100 Arabs have been arrested and committed to prison at Cairo for pillaging the steamer Yarrowdale which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wire received last evening from Nelson's Bay stated that the ketch Laura sprung a leak at the Heads, and was beached with difficulty in False Bay. No lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE small coasting ketch Laura, which left Nelson's Bay at 12 o'clock to-day, sprung a leak just after passing out of the Heads, and with great difficulty was beached in False…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars are to hand of the wreck of the four-masted Fascadale. The Fascadale was bound from Java to Lisbon, with a cargo of sugar. The captain of the ship was left sick at Java, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire received from Queenscliff (Vic.) yesterday stated that the fore-and-aft schooner Martha, bound from Circular Head (Tas.) capsized in the rip, the crew being thrown in the water. There was a fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WORD was received from Queenscliff this afternoon reporting that the fore and-aft schooner Martha, from Circular Head, had capsized on the rip. There was a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NELSON BAY, Thursday.—The ketch Laura, which sprung a leak on Sunday last while on her way to Sydney, and was beached for safety in False Bay, was successfully floated yesterday, and she is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following wire was received from Apollo Bay yesterday:—"The ketch Sea Bird, which sailed for Melbourne this morning, is a total wreck off Cape Patten, Apollo Bay. The crew all saved."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Seabird, a small vessel of 17 tons, was wrecked near Apollo Bay to-day. All the crew were saved. THE OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sonneberg is the last new vessel of the German-Australian line, which has been so long established as to become a recognised port of the home trallic. At first such vessels as Barmen, Sommerfeld…
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