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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
370 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 19
The Auckland Collector of Customs has received information to the effect that a board about 5ft long, bearing the name "Auriga," also about half a dozen piece of stern scroll work, were picked up on Mitford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The three-masted schooner Chocolate Girl, which left Goole June 25 for Knysna, Cape Colony, is reported as having put into Mauritius in a damaged condition, and will probably come on to Sydney for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Little Nell was a small steel screw steamer, a sister ship to the Achilles, and almost wholly confined to river and harbour work. She was built about 24 years ago for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few minutes past 4 yesterday afternoon the Harbours and Rivers steamer Dawn rounded Nobbys, and proceeded up the harbour with her ensign half-masted, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The damage on the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tekoa, at Capetown, is estimated at £35,000. The damage to the insulating apparatus alone, which cost £20,000 is estimated at £12,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Considerable excitement was occasioned in town yesterday morning when it became known that a large steamer was in a disabled condition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wire from Hobart states that the small steamer Yolla, recently purchased by the Union Steamship Company from Risby Brothers, while bound from King's Island to Strahan with cattle, was wrecked at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News was received yesterday afternoon to the effect that Mr. A. Sneddon's coasting steamer Centennial was ashore on the beach at Long Island, the most easterly of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plans and specifications of the proposed new pilot steamer intended for the use on the Port Philip (Vic.) station have been prepared, and are of a very complete and elaborato character. They provided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The barque Sepia, 660 tons, 106 days out from London, for Fremantle, struck a reef near Carnac Island, 12 miles from Fremantle, at 6 o'clock on Thursday evening…
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