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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1896

305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 16

The Accident to the Steamer Waroonga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1896 · page 4

The inquiry into the circumstances attending the [?]oss of her rudder by the A U.S.N. Company's steamer Waroonga on 30th October was concluded at Melbourne on Tuesday. The Court came to the…

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A Steamer Missing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The steamer St. Mawes Castle, 25 tons, from Liverpool for Fremantle, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing…

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The Largest Steamer Afloat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1896 · page 4

Messrs. Harland and Wolff, the well-known shipbuilders of Belfast, recently launched the twin-screw steamer Pennsylvania, built to the order of the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company. The…

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A Leaky Schooner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 4

Advice from Fiji state that the Auckland schooner Fleetwing, which has for some time past been trading out of the port of Yavau, Tongan Group, put into Suva on the 4th instant in a leaky…

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A Steamer Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 4

A collision took elate in the Brisbane River late on Monday night. The A.U.R.N. Company's steamer Maranon was coming up the river completing her voyage from the Gulf Carpentaria, and when…

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