General News. the Latest New Lifeboat
Much interest attaches to a new invention of an arrangement of floating tubes, so constructed as to prevent boats from sinking. The tubes are run along each side of the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896
305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 16
The Ketch Capella
The ketch Capella, which dragged her anchors and went ashore south of the Wallaroo jetty during rough weather in the beginning of July, was towed to Port Adelaide by the steamer Investigator on…
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Messrs R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Limited, launched a steamer at Hebburn-on-Tyne on July 11th for the Australian trade. The vessel is 485ft long by 54ft by 32ft. She is built to the order…
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A new vessel was launched on Tuesday morning last from the yard of Mr. George Frost, the well-known shipbuilder at Kincumber, near Gosford. The dimensions of the new craft are as follow :—Length…
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A telegram received yesterday from Richmond Heads stated that the steamer Oakland grounded on the inside spit while crossing into the river, and remained fast. The vessel was expected to come off…
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MESSERS. CUTHBERTSON AND Co. received a cable from Christchurch last night to the following effect:—"The American ship Patrician has foundered at sea in latitude…
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The steamer Strathclyde recently arrived here with a steam pipe damaged. On the recommendation of Mr. Rorison, and under his supervision, the work of providing a new one was entrusted to Mr. G. H…
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News has been received from the East that the American ship S. D. Carleton, Captain Amesbury, a well-known trader to Australia, has been ashore. The ship struck on the Panjong Reef, off the coast of…
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LONDON, Friday.—Houlder Brothers' new steamer, Denton Grange, which has been provided with refrigerating capacity for 100,000 carcases of…
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The British India Company's steamer Virawa which arrived at Melbourne from Calcutta recently experienced a very strong south-west monsoon shortly after leaving Calcutta. The wreck of a…
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There is now on view at the Sydney Merchants' Exchange an interesting photo, group of the original committee and founders of the above society. The group contains 22 photos, and is embellished with…
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Whilst crossing the Tweed River bar on Wednesday the steamer Chindera went aground on the South Spit. She was considerably knocked about by the heavy sea that prevailed at the time, and will…
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On August 1, at the Vulcan Shipbuilding Yards, at Setton, there was launched the first of four twin screw steamers of a new type, ordered by the Nord-deutscher Lloyd. The new vessel has a length of…
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Information has been received from Fremantle that the ketch Swift stranded on a reef at Twilight Cove (W.A.), on September 1. The vessel was on a coastal trip at the time, and became a total wreck…
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A TELEGRAM from Esperance, September 16, states that a lamentable shipping disaster occurred there, resulting in the total wreck of the ketch Ettie, belonging to J. R. Connolly,…
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The A. U. S. N. Co's steamer Waroonga, which arrived at Albany on Monday from Adelaide, reports speaking the steamer Framnes 40 miles south-west of Pollock's Reef so Sunday night, coming along under…
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A telegram from Auckland, dated Wednesday, states: The steamer Takapuna, when off the Brothers, sighted the wreckage of a vessel of about 60 tons. It is thought that one of the small vessels…
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The well-known four-masted schooner Olga, which some time ago made several voyages between Sydney end New Caledonia, went ashore in Amoor River, Siberia, last month, and became a total…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sailors' Boarding Houses. Jack Ashore
MUCH has been written in song and story of the sailor's life, and while there are many who are by nature fitted for a nautical life, there are not a few whose opinions are aptly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mission Schooner Meda
The Wesleyan missionary schooner Meda, now lying at Moore's Wharf, Sydney, preparing for an island trip, presents a very different and undoubtedly on improved appearance since the…
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