Storms in the Atlantic. Steamer Stopped by Whales
LONDON, Tuesday.—Terrific storms have swept over the Atlantic. The Cunard Company's Royal mail steamer Lucania, Captain Horatio McKay,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
Wreck of an Australian Trader
LONDON, Tuesday—The barque Loch Fergus, bound from Glasgow to Brisbane, has gone ashore at Killeany Beach, on the Irish coast, and will…
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Capetown advices to hand contain news of the loss of the steamer Resolute. The spot where the vessel foundered has not been discovered, and not a soul survived to tell the…
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Captain Batcher, of the Adelaide S.S. Company's steamer Kadine, which arrived here on Wednesday from Adelaide, reports that on February 1, in lat. 37.04 east, long 119.20, a quantity of wreckage was…
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By this time the steam fire-engine was placed in position in Newcomen-street opposite the baths, bit a third trouble made its appearance in the shape of a delay…
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LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Arno has been wrecked at Ports-mouth. Thirteen lives were lost. A tidal wave 40 feet high flooded…
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LONDON, Monday.—Grave fears are entertained for the safety fo the Cunard line steamer Pavonia, which was disabled during a hurricane when off…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A heavy westerly gale continues to blow over Great Britain and Ireland. Many wrecks have occurred…
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A telegram from the Tweed River yesterday states that the steamer Orara recently built at Jervis Bay for Mr. G. W. Nicoll, grounded on the bar at 1 p.m. while…
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A Court of Inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Gleanavon, by which the chief officer, a European quartermaster, and two Chinese lost their lives, has been at Hongkong, with the…
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Later particulars to hand concerning the wreck of the steamer Orara state that the vessel arrived off the Tweed River bar at 6 a.m. on Thursday, and waited until 12.45…
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Advices from the Tweed River state that the steamer Orara has drifted about 3ft nearer the shore on Friday night. The tug Hero left Sydney on Friday night conveying Captain Bentley, of the…
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LONDON, Monday.—Later details of the disablement in the Atlantic of the Cunard line steamer Pavonia during the recent storms state that for twenty,…
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Messrs. Fenwick and Co.'s tug Hero, which was chartered by the Sydney Underwriters' Association to convey the salvage plant to the wrecked steamer Orara at the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A vessel has arrived at Baltimore with four persons picked up in the Atlantic from one of the boats of the steamer…
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Private advices from the wreck of the Tasmania, off the New Zealand coast, state that the Coralic arrived safely at the wreck, and the diver, Mr. Pascoe, made two descents. He travelled along the alley…
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The New Government steamer Tutanekai has arrived at Wellington from the South, bringing news of the wreck of the ketch Gratitude on Macquaric Island on February 10, all hands saved. The…
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Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the wreck of the British India steamer Quetta in Torres Straits. The wreck was one of the most terrible catastrophes which had…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Dominion line steamer Labrador, bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Liverpool has been wrecked on the Hebrides…
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News was received that the barque Bass Rock, well known in Newcastle, has been totally loss off Lobos, part of the crew were saved and landed at Pimental. The Bass Rock left Newcastle on August 2 with a…
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