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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 18
THE lifeboat service of Newcastle dates back to 1847, in which year a large and cumbersome boat was built in Newcastle. It was ill adapted for the purposes for which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Marine Board was held yesterday, when the board gave its reserved decision in connection with the Adderley disaster The board found that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE new lifeboat was safely discharged from the steamer Gulf of Mexico yesterday and placed in the lifeboat shed. The appearance of the craft elicited favourable opinions on all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. W. Nicoll has been advised that his new steamer Excelsior, recently built by Gourlay Brothers, of Dundee, for the coastal trade, is expected to leave England for Sydney on the 15th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Union liner Monowai is to be replaced on the A and A route shortly by the new mall steamer Moama. The new vessel was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. W. Denny and Bros…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SALVAGE operations in connection with the barque Adderley are proceeding favourably. Advices received by Mr. Sharp yesterday from the wreck state that the vessel has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The proportion of paying load to total displacement of a steamship in 1840 was only 10 per cent., that is the hull, engines, and fuel carried formed 90per cent. of the weight of the vessel. In 1856 the paying load…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Greek cruiser Peneus has captured a Turkish steamer and taken it into Skiathos. The steamer had 100…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eastern advices to hand state that the Rivers Steam Navigation Co.'s mail steamer Lochit sank in a tornado that swept over Chandpore on the 3rd instant. The latest particulars, as given by some native…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday Night.—The Greek squadron is blockading the Gulf of Salonica, and has prevented the entrance of a British steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A WIRE from West Australia states that on Friday morning the ship Corbett Castle anchored about a mile and a half from Bunbury but subsequently broke from her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new 93-tons schooner, which has been named the Amelia White, was recently launched from the yard of Mr. George Frost, Kincumber, Brisbane Water. The vessel has been built to the order of Mr. Joshua…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Telegraph Department advises that Thursday Island reports that the Duke of Devonshire, steamer, while proceeding from Thursday Island to Cooktown, between 5 and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to tow the barque Adderley off Stockton beach. The tug Irresistible left for the scene of the wreck at 2 p m., end on arrival…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Q.R.M.S. Duke of Devonshire, from London, en route to Brisbane, arrived at Thursday Island on Saturday. On resuming her voyage she struck an unknown obstacle in Thursday Island harbour. She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—The new P. and O. steamer Egypt was successfully launched in the Clyde at Greenock to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new steamer for the North Coast S N Co. was launched yesterday at the yards of Messrs Fester and Minty. Balmain and christened the Euroka Thi vessel has been specially constructed to navigate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN accordance with the decision of the recent indignation meeting, the Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman D. Miller) wrote to the Colonial Treasurer on the 29th ult, requesting that a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAST night information was received here from Hongkong of the robbery of £4440 in gold from the strongroom of the China Navigation Co's steamer Taiynan. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Normand, owned in South Shields, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing whilst on a voyage from Newport, Monmouth, to Bilbao; coal laden. The Normand, which carried a crew of 17…
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