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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
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THE Marine Board resumed its inquiry into the circumstances connected with the wreak of the barque Durisdeer at the Custom House yesterday. There were present:— Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The wreck of the barque Durisdeer as she lies on the Stockton beach, also salvage goods from the vessel, will be offered for sale to-day by Messrs. Lang, Wood, and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MESSRS. LANG, WOOD, AND Co. offered the Durisdeer wreck for sale on the Stockton Beach yesterday. There was an excellent attendance numerically, but bidding was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FRIENDS and relatives from all parts of the colony of those who were lost at the wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa on the Great Barrier have (says the New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE brief notification published a few days ago that the Government steamer Ajax was to be handed over by the Government for the Newcastle Pilot Service has been officially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the local Marine Board took place at the offices of the board yesterday afternoon to consider the decision with regard to the inquiry concerning the wreak…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further particulars of the loss of the barque Grasmere are to hand by the steamer Hauroto, which arrived here yesterday. The vessel left Newcastle on December 12 for Wellington with 612 tons of coal for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—The loss of the barque Durisdeer on Stockton beach is a matter that should not be lost sight of by the members of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce. Some time ago…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FOLLOWING is the official report and decision of the local Marine Board in the matter of the wreck of the Durisdeer :—" An inquiry was held before the local Marine Board into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE announcement that appeared in the Newcastle Herald of Saturday last to the effect that the Government had decided to hand over the steamer Ajax to the local pilots, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day the wreck of the Leveret, as it lies in the harbour, was sold to Mr. William Allen, of Balmain, for £150…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On New year's Day, as the steamer Wellington was on her way from Auckland to Waiwara with a large party of excursionists on board, she struck something in the water, which caused her to heel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Water Police Court to-day a cease of alleged and very extensive fraud was heard. A young man named Arthur Deacon was charged that he did on December 19 last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Halcione, 878 tons register, owned by Shaw, Savill, and Co., while voyaging from London to Wellington, with a cargo of general merchandise, including 1700…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday afternoon a rent of about 4in occurred in the boiler of the paddle steamer Kennedy, trading between Pert Adelaide and Yorke'a Peninsula, when the vessel was about 14 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry into the wreck of the barque Granmere off Cape Torawhitt on Christmas Day has been concluded. The Court found Captain Morrison guilty of errors of judgment is not laying his course…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A REPORT received from Portland states that the A U.S.N. Company's steamer Cintra put into the bay there yesterday afternoon with her cargo on fire. The Bulimba accompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Aberdeen, of the Aberdeen White Star line, is again in the colonies. The vessel is still under the command of Captain A T. Wills, and considering all things has made a good passage to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Buluwayo, a new steel steamer belonging to the British and colonial line, on route from the cape to Sydney, passed Cape Otway yesterday morning, and reported "all well," She calls at Port Pirie to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queen Adelaide, a steel steamer of 2832 tons gross and 1835 not register, reached the harbour last evening from Kurruchee, via Fremantle. The vessel was launched in 1891 from the yards of Bartram…
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