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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
305 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16
A new steamer, built to the order of the New Zealand Shipping Company, was launched at the works of Messrs. Barclary, Curle, and Co., Whitewich, Glasgow, on February 15, intended for the carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Bothwell Castle arrived on Saturday morning after a most narrow escape from drifting on to Breaksea Island. During a gale her steering chains broke and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The E. and A. Co.'s new steamer, which is to take the place of the Catterhun in the mail and passenger service between Australia, China, and Japan, left Cardiff on Wednesday last. The new vessel has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another addition has just been made to the coastal fleet by Mr. Rock Davis, of Blackwall, Brisbane Water. The new vessel is a ketch named the Zcoma, of 86 tons, and measuring about 81ft in length, 24ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Under a picture of Peter Jackson got up in the latest style, and holding a glass of champagne in his hand with what appears to be a private bar for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The salvage operations that have been carried on since August last at the wreck of the barque Mayhill, at Champion Bay (W.A), at have at length been abandoned by the underwriters, the Commercial Union…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN the disturbance Sigma swept down upon the North Queensland coast some few weeks back and completely wrecked Townsville, a tremendous amount of damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the summons division of the Water Police Court to-day, Samuel Holstead, the master of the New Manly Ferry Company's steamer Fearless, was charged at the instance of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEN it was known yesterday that the Government steamer a jax had arrived in the harbour, not a few people came to the conclusion that the vessel had come to enter upon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the inquiry into the wreck of the John Bell, held at Auckland on Thursday, the Court suspended the certificate of Oberg, the mate, and ordered Captain Williams to pay the costs, as he ought to have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barr Smith United lifeboat City Adelaide has not yet left Port Adelaide to take up her station on the south-east coast. It was originally intended that she should leave last week, but it was found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable received in Sydney from Auckland on Monday stated that a large quantity of wreckage been washed up on the Chatham Islands. Ship's plauking, a pices of decking, a boat, a tank, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs Gibbs, Bright and Co, agents for the E. and A. Company, have received a cable from China stating that their chartered steamer Ocampo went ashore between Japan and Hongkong on her way to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. Mergell, the general agent in Sydney for the North German Lloyd line, has received advice from the directors in Bremen to the effect that the company are building two mammoth mail steamers for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Norwegian barque Ole Boe, which was reported as having gone ashore at Maceio, is now reported as lost, but the information to hand is very meagre. The Ole Boe left New York on January…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable was received on Wednesday by the Sydney Underwriters' Association stating that the New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Rimutaka, bound from Wellington to London, had put into Monte…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE small steamer Arakoon foundered last night Captain Arinds and two men named Robinson and Gibbs were drowned. The latter was a passenger. The survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News to hand from the East state that the Pacific mail steamer City of Rio, which was nearly two weeks overdue at Yokohama, has turned up. She had put into Honolulu for coal, having experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the steamer Titus left New Guinea fears were entertained for the safety of the cutter Suau. She had left Cooktown, in company with the schooner Olive Branch, for Samurai, and when the Titus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A schooner has been dispatched from Port Darwin in search of the steamer Red Gauntlet, which sailed for Thursday Island, and is now three weeks overdue. Considerable anxiety is felt at the steamer's…
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