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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 14
A telegram has been received in Adelaide from Port Darwin stating that the schooner Midge, which left there on June 1[?], and which was believed to have foundered in a storm, had returned to port on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from Thursday Island states that the Norwegian barque Eveland, of Proserland, Wallace Island, bound to Liverpool with a cargo of copra went ashore near the Three Sisters Islands, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French roller steamer Ernest Bazin, the nonsuccess of which broke the heart of its invontor the late M. Bazin, has arrived in the Thames and those who desire an opportunity of going over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the liner Paris was wrecked on the dreaded Manacle Rocks the mail bags were safely taken off and conveyed across the Atlantic by another steamer, but when the Elbe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is twenty-five years since any human being saw the face of the Rajah's captain, but no photograph is needed to call it back from the Atlantic. For my brief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Signalman Myles, of Ashfield, while walking on the line near the Ashfield station, when 350 yards away, saw a man stopping over the rails, who ran away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News was received at Sydney yesterday from Tasmania to the effect that the ketch Annie, which was bound from Devonport to Wynyard, had capsized. A boat was sent out to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It is so stormy, so stormy. Oh, dear!" The words were childish, and so was the speaker, one might think at a first glance; but a second look at the pallid face, with its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magdalena looked at him for a moment with a half-puzzled air, then, bounding past him with 10 airy lightness of a fawn, she sprang into the cottage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday.—The British warship Melpomene, stationed in African waters, has left Port Louis, Mauritius, in search of the disabled steamer Waikato…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News was received from Wellington an Saturday stating that the steamer Maroc had arrived at Lyttelton from Newcastle in a very battered condition. When near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—A serious revolutionary outbreak is reported from Paris. In consequence of the leniency shown by the Government towards M. Guerin a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News from Auckland states that it is believed that the ketch Envy, bound from Wellington to Auckland, has foundered during the recent gale off Great Barrier Island. On Friday last a bottle was picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some anxiety is felt at Fremantle regarding a small coastal steamer. The Croydon whith left Cossack for Fremantle direct on August 8. The ordinary trip takes five days. It is believed the Croydon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after 2 o'clock the signal for a steamer approaching from the north was hoisted at Fort Scratchley, and as the steamer Williams was known to have left Port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A few minutes after 11 p.m. the lifeboat signals from Fort Scrathley boomed out the warning of a vessel in distress, immediately followed by rockets, indicating that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fruitless search of the pilot steamer Ajax and the lifeboat Victoria for a supposed disabled vessel has been cleared up. On Thursday night when the guns were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—News has reached London to the effect that the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamer Tekoa, bound from Wellington (N.Z.) to London, has struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The roller steamer has long been a dream of marine engineering. Hitherto it has remained a dream. In the Ernest Bazin it looks like being realised. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Nova Scotian ship Jane Burrill, which sailed from Newcastle (N.S.W.) on June 30, bound to Manila with a cargo of coal, has been wrecked on…
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