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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897

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Grounding of a Russian Warship. a British Steamer Assisting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Russian warship Kastrona is aground at Elbaruf. A British steamer is assisting…

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The Wreck of the Triton. the Captain Commits Suicide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Forty-two of the passengers and crew were rescued from the Spanish steamer Triton, which was wrecked on the northern…

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The Wreck of the Phasis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1897 · page 4

Further particulars are to hand concerning the loss of the ship Phasis details of which disaster have now been received in a letter from Captain J. Fleming. The Phasis, a full-rigged ship of 1490 tons,…

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The New Hydrualic Lifeboat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 6

PROMINENT officials of the National Lifeboat Institution, including Sir Edward Birkbeck and Captain Vincent Nepean, inspected on the Thames the new lifeboat Queen, which…

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The Katie-lotus Collision. The Kameruka Wreck. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 5

THE Marine Board gave their decision in the matter of the collision between the steamers Lotus and Katie this morning. The board found that the collision, which took place in…

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Lake Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 November 1897 · page 5

The well known steamer Maggie Johnson will leave Cockle Creak to-morrow at 9.30 for Toronto, Belmont, and Swansea…

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New Steamer for the Adelaide S.s. Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 November 1897 · page 4

The Adelaide Steamship Company are adding yet another steamer to their already large fleet. The Willyama (native name for Broken Hill), a sister ship to the Kadina, is being built at…

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The Kameruka Wreck. Marine Board Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1897 · page 5

A MEETNG of the Sydney Marina Board was hold yesterday afternoon, when the cause of the stranding of the steamer Kumeruka was inquired into…

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The First Iron Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 November 1897 · page 4

Writing to a Glasgow contempery on the subject of "Early Clyde Steamers," Mr. R. Wallace, of Cambridge Drive, Glasgow, says:—"The first iron steamer on the Clyde,…

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The Kameruka Wreck. Marine Board Inquiry. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1897 · page 5

THE Marine Board sat this morning, and the circumstances of the wreck of the Kameruka on Pedro Beef on October 17 were further inquired into…

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The Antoinetta O. Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 November 1897 · page 4

Advices from Delagoa Bay state that the Italian barque Antoinetta O., loaded with sleepers for the former port from Samarang, went ashore on Leach Reef on September 4. A tag and lighters went out,…

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Loss of the Cordillera. Foundered at Sea. All Lost But Two of the Crew

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 November 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The barque Cordillera has foundered off the coast of Valparaiso owing to the ballast having shifted during a gale. All…

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History of Newcastle and the Northern District. (All Rights Reserved.) No. Xxviii. Loading the Schooner Francis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 November 1897 · page 7

THE schooner Francis reached the river on the 14th of June, 1801, and as Colonel Paterson considered her speedy return to Sydney a matter of…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. the Lost Mission Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 November 1897 · page 5

A long discussion took place yesterday at the Presbyterian Assembly on the proposal to build a new steamer to replace the steamer Dayspring lost in the New Hebrides. The…

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The Kameruka Wreck. Marine Board Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 5

THE Sydney Marine Board met this afternoon, and gave their decision in the case of the steamer Kameruka, which was wrecked on Pedro Reef on October 17 last. The…

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A Schooner Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 November 1897 · page 4

The coasting schooner Phillip Palfrey went ashore on the south spit of the Nambucca River entrance on Tuesday. She was in the same position yesterday…

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Explosion on a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 4

A serious accident has happened to the paddle steamer Pyre. While an a trip from Murray Bridge to Maunum on Saturday her boiler exploded, and Captain Randell and the engineer were severely…

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The Kameruka Wreck. Captain's Certificate Cancelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 4

AT a meeting of the Sydney Marine Board yesterday afternoon. Captain O. Hersee, master of the wrecked steamer Kameruka, and Mr. M'Laughlan, second mate of the…

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Wreck of a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 4

Eight men belonging to the steamer Turkish Prince, of Newcastle, have been landed at Liverpool by the Lucania. The Turkish Prince, while bound from Colon to Vera Cruz, struck on a coral reef and…

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