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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 10
The new steamer recently purchased by Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co from Mr. F. S. Holland has been re-named the Corio, after the bay of that name at Geelong The Corio, which is now on her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thursday and Friday nights' gales and the thick weather during the past four days have, in addition to imperilling all vessels on the coast, retarding shipping operations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram received from Brisbane yesterday afternoon states that hoe steamer Quiraing has been stranded at Piper Island, north of Cooktown. The Quiraing is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The French steamer Maroc, which left Newcastle on Friday last with a general cargo and a number of cattle nil sheep for Noumea, put into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday a message was received from Brisbane stating that the steamer Quiraing, which on Monday afternoon wan reported to have been stranded on Piper Island Reef, north at Cooktown (Q.), had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram received from Wingham yesterday reported that while talking the Manning liver but at about 8 o'clock in the morning the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain J. Edie (superintendent of navigation) yesterday received further telegrams notifying him of the presence on the north coast of wreckage floating directly in the track of vessels bound north or south…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday the steamer Tolosa, bound from Newcastle to Java with a cargo of coal, put into Melbourne to effect repairs, rendered necessary through having encountered the late heavy weather. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wrecked schooner Jane, which daring Friday night sank at her anchorage in Nelsons Bay, is rapidly breaking up. A telegram received last evening from Port Stephens, states that spars with sails…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steel screw steamer of about 350 tone was launched at Paisley on the 2nd ult by Messrs. Fullerton and Co. The vessel, which was named the Hopewell, has been built to the order of Messrs. Hyne and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram received from of the Wingham yesterday state that Captain Banks, of the Underwriters' Association, has arrived at the wreck of the Coraki. A line has been fired by means of rockets to help to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Range of Modern Guns" is described by Mr. W. J. Gordon in the "Leisure Hour" with a "realising sense" of what it means that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A telegram received from Post Macquarie on Saturday reported that the ketch Sir George, while being towed in by a tug, went aground on the north spit inside the bar. Information received yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While being towed in to Camden Haven yesterday the schooner Louisa Messel went ashore. It is regarded probable that he would coat off on last night's tide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Banks, of the Underwriter' Association, has succeeded in his mission to the Manning River, the North Coast S.N. Co.'s steamer Coraki, which last week went aground near the Manning River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A remarkable fatality has been associated with the position of master of the Muttra (British India steamer) during the past four years, no fewer than three gentlemen who were in charge of her at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the stranding of the steamer Quiraing recently on Piper Reef, Torres Straits, the captain has stated that it was his intention to anchor under the reef for the night, a mile and a quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday the B.I. steamer Muttra arrived at Newcastle from Sydney. The Muttra on arrival went to the Queen's Wharf, where she has begun loading about 150 horses, together with a quantity of fodder,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the last meeting (held this week), of the Victorian Shipwreck Relief Society, it was resolved to distribute at once the sum of £450 amongst the w[?]dows and orphans of the crew of the wrecked 8.8…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A new-steamer, named after the hero of Mafeking, has been built at the Nambucca River for Mr. Frank Buckle, of Sydney. The left for Sydney on Wednesday in tow of the tog Thistle The Baden-Powell passed…
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