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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 18
By the mail to hand news was received that the Flensburg Shipbuilding Company has obtained the contract to build the 6000 ton steamer which the proprietors of the German-Australian line purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is almost almost that the disabled vessel seen off Cape Borda lighthouse is the Cloncurry, which left Port Adelaide for Freemantle on May 11, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiries of the detectives into the reported mysterious robbery of £4640 from the strongroom of the steamer Taiyuan during the voyage from Sydney to Hongkong have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—A Greek torpedo boat has captured an Austrian Lloyd steamer, bound for Volo, with 72 Turkish seamen and the new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexander Jaffray, master of the ship Edward Pembroke, was fined £10 and cost at the Cardiff (England) Police Court, for neglecting to repair a lifeboat on his ship at Sydney. It was stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE new lifeboat will be officially launched and christened on Thursday next, and a suitable programme has been arranged for the undertaking. The proceedings will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the stranding of the schooner Myrtle on the Barrier Reef on the 3rd April last, while on a voyage from New Guinea to Cooktown, the Court appointed by the Brisbane Marine Beard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A preliminary inquiry into the wreck of the ship Carbet Castle has been held at Bunbury (W.A.). The Court found that the ship was driven ashore during exceptionally heavy weather, through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fair number of people travelled to the lake, where the steamer Maggie Johnson met the trains, conveying the passengers to the various parts of the lake and allowing them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE official launching of the lifeboat takes place this afternoon, and complete preparations have been made to ensure the success of the undertaking. The ceremony will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Will you kindly grant me space to express my praise for your suggestion in your issue of May 22nd, that all possible should be done to unite the lifeboat crew and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CEREMONY which has for long been discussed and which has been anxiously looked forward to, viz., the launching of the new lifeboat for service at this port, took place yesterday under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Seeing so much comment and praise re the doings of lifeboat and crew, I may state to you some of the work of the old boat whilst I was in her and when I was coxswain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ONE of the most interested spectators at the launching of the new lifeboat on Thursday was Mr. William Skilton, sen, who as far back as 1856 was engaged in lifeboat work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Burmeister and Wain Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Copenhagen, has recently completed the largest and most powerful fee-breaking steamer, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The well-known steamer Age, owned by Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons, Limited, bound for Adelaide, went ashore in the West Channel this morning, but was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the wreck of the steamer Burdekin on an island south-west half-south from Woodlark Island, the court appointed by the Brisbane Marine Board to hold an inquiry, after taking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain C. A. P. Talbot, British Consul at Corunna, writes from Corunna, under date April 21 :—A curious and interesting ease of the body of a person drowned at a shipwreck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →INTELLIGENCE was received from Kempsey yesterday stating that the yacht Guineveve, bound from Sydney to New Guinea, had become a total loss about four miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE easterly gale which raged during Monday night occasioned a series of shipping disasters, four well-known traders to this port having been blown ashore. Fortunately…
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