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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 18
Just previous to the barque Collessie sighting a large quantity of ice on the voyage from New York to Dunedin, in latitude 49.12 south, longitude 54.39 east a small quantity of wreckage woo passed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News from Samoa states that for the last two or three week large quantities of heavy lumber have been picked up at Aliepata and Falsalli, giving rise to the belief that a large lumber vessel has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is stated as likely that the big ocean greyhounds will soon be equipped with lifeboats harnessed to balloons (which we described in detail some time ago) so as to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With reference to the floating timber reported in Saturday's issue as having been sighted off Samoa, it has been ascertained that the wreckage in question undoubtedly forms portion of the deck cargo which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—A cable states that the steamer Yanariva has picked up the lifeboat of the French steamer Ville de la Nazaire, which recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—H.M.S. Dryad has sunk two caiques and captured two others which were landing contraband goods in Crete…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the English mail left the steamer State of Georgia was a month overdue, and was regarded as lost. She left the Baltic port of Newfairwater in the last week of December, found for Halifax, Nova…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Colac, which arrived at Fremantle on March 22nd, left Adelaide on the 13th March with the lighter Monarch in tow. During the passage across the Great Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Excelsior, launched by Messrs. Gourlay, at Dundee, is a steamer built to the order of Mr. G. W. Nicoll, Sydney. She is about 400 tons net register and has been constructed to the highest requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received by the China mail of the loss of the steamer Glenmorganshire. She went ashore on the Rosslyn Reef, near Cape St. James, whilst en route from Hongkong to Saigon in ballast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On January 311, the biggest vessel in the world left Belfast. The Pennsylvania, as she is called, was launched on December 10 last, and since then thousands of men have been engaged in completing her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Warrego, which arrived this morning from Cooktown, brings news of the wreck of the schooner Myrtle on the 4th inst. on the Barrier Reef, 10 miles north of East Lizard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wire from Nambucca yesterday stated that the schooner Bessie Maud had taken the ground while crossing the bar, but was expected to float on the next tide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wrecked barque Vilalta, as she now lies stranded about 10 miles north of the mouth of the Moore River (W.A.), together with her cargo of timber, was sold recently at Perth. Messrs. Connor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A WIRE from Brisbane states that news has been received of the wreck of the steamer Burdekin, belonging to Aplin, Brown, and Company, Townsville. Captain Potts, master…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Burdekin when wrecked had 24 hands aboard. The vessel struck on a reef at 8 a.m. in calm weather. The passengers and crew took to the boats, and reached one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wire from Cooktown states that the Customs ketch left there on Sunday night to search for the schooner Clara Ethel, which left Woodlark Island four weeks age for Cooktown. The Ethel was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Adelaide Steamship Company's new twin screw steamer Allinga, recently built by Messrs. Scott and Co., of Greenock, for the intercolonial trade, had a successful trial trip last month on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the February number of the Lifeboat Journal" it is stated that during 1896 the committee of the Royal National Lifeboat institution expended £71,476 on its 298 lifeboat establishments; 812 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Mageie Johnson met the trains at Cookle Creek in the morning from whence she conveyed passengers to various parts of the lake, thus affording the…
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