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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
257 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 13
The coasting schooner Nellie, in charge of Captain Conway, which left here on Tuesday for Sydney, returned to port last evening in a dismasted condition. The vessel got away to the southward well before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The barque Thurso veered from the channel while towing out of Greymouth, timber laden for Capetown, and went ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Portion of the wreck of the ketch Dolly Wamsley, which vessel was wrecked in Stormy Point some time ago, was brought to he surface yesterday and consisted of the hatch combings of the ketch. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A survey was made yesterday of the dismasted schooner Nellie by Laidman marine surveyor to the Sydney Underwriters' Association, when it was ascertained that the foremast, foretopmast,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The latest addition to the fleet of turret steamers owned by Messrs. Petersen, Tate, and Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, took her trial trip on June 8. The Turret Cape has been built by Messrs. W. Doxford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wire has been received from Auckland announcing that the well-known barque Thurso was wrecked at Greymouth on Wednesday. While being towed out, bound to Capetown with a cargo of timber, she…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TERRIBLE marine disaster, which it is feared involved the loss of a large number of lives, occurred early yesterday morning at Seal Rocks, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the metropolitan papers on Saturday a statement appears from the quarter-master of the Catterthun to the effect that when the second officer, Mr. Lanfear, went on duty at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MESSES. J. and A. Brown's tug Gamecock returned to the harbour about 3 p.m. yesterday from a second search in connection with the Catterthan disaster. Captain R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Charles F. Stokes and Co. are in receipt of a letter from Captain P. C. M'Caulder, of the barque Penobscot, dated Singapore, July 6th. The captain states that shout an hour after the pilot left him at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No additional news was received here yesterday concerning the wreck of the Catterthun. It was reported that a steamer was to be despatched from here to the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest relative to the deaths of the persons whose bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the steamer Catterthun was resumed at Forster this morning before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COUPLE of the local water police have been told off by Inspector Lynch to patrol the Stockton beach in search of wreckage from the Catterthun. The men proceed daily for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE second officer of the Catterthun, Mr. Lanfear, returned to Sydney this morning, as did also the two Chinamen who remained for the inquest. Mr. Lanfear, Captain Fawkes,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The island traders Waratah and Tafua arrived at Leone on Saturday, July 13. On the following night the weather became rough, and the chain of the Tafua parted, and she drifted against the Waratah. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Burrawong, on route from Sydney to the Richmond River and Forster, called here yesterday morning and left again after taking is coal. She had on board…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INFORMATION was received here to-day that the tug Sterling had discovered that the Catterthun was wrecked on the outer rock or reef at Seal Rocks. A comb with Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Hongkong state that a shipwrecked crew belonging to the barque Halnaker has arrived there, and given particulars of the wreck of the vessel. The Halnaker left Sydney in march last for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHILST the steamer Ranelagh, bound for Sydney, was steaming across, Moreton Bay last night it was noticed that the schooner Moonta, which was entering the Heads,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest at Forster upon the bodies recovered from the wreck of the steamer Catterthun, was concluded this morning. The coroner (Mr. M'Intyre) summed up at…
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