New Steamer for the A.u.s.n. Co
Particulars have been received by the English mail of the launch from Messrs. Gourlay Brothers and Company's yard, Dundee (Scotland), of a steel twin-screw steamer, which has been…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901
264 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 14
The Suspect Steamer
LONDON, Saturday.—The steamer Ban Right, 981 tons, which was seized in London because it was believed that her cargo, consisting largely of…
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The barque Royal Tar, which left the harbour last night for Kaipara to lead timber for Melbourne, has been wrecked on Tiri-tiri Island, just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wyong Wreck. Sydney
The master of the Government tug Wyong, Captain Thomas Radcliffe, which foundered on the South Solitary Island on November 12, after losing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Collision. Sydney
Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning a slight collision occurred at Sydney Cove between the ferry steamers Bunya Bunya and Kurraba. The…
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While endeavouring to cross the bar inward at Camden Haven on Friday night the tug Unique grounded on the North Spit. Shortly after striking the vessel began to…
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Lloyd's surveyor, who has made an inspection of the barque Gudrun, which was beached in a leaking condition recently on Perron Flats, near Carnarvon (W.A.), has returned to Fremantle. The surveyor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer on Fire. Lying Off Napier. Auckland
A disastrous fire has broken out on the steamer Waimate, which is lying off Napier partly loaded for London. At about 7.30 on Tuesday night an…
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At the magisterial inquiry held at Auckland into the wreck of the Royal Tar, Captain Morrison said he was on deck till midnight. He left the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Schooner Wrecked
A telegram from Melbourne states that the vessel ashore at Cunninghame is the schooner Bella Watson. She sailed from the Lakes entrance at about 1 a.m. on Saturday, and went ashore in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Glencaird
The ship Glencaird, a vessel well-known in Australian waters, has been wrecked of Port Margaret, Staten Island. In a violent storm the ship was driven on the rocks. The officers and crew…
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The Waterloo, 4-m barque, bound from London to Melbourne with a general cargo, put into Falmouth on October 30 with a leak in her forepeak. The barque struck a sunken wreck in the English…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New C.n. Steamer
Messrs. Scott and Co. launched on October 30, at Greenock, for the China Navigation Company, Limited, the steel screw steamer Yunnan, built for the company's cargo traffic between Chinese ports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mission Vessel Wrecked
A telegram from Port Darwin states that the cutter Evangel, belonging to the Kaparlgoo Mission was totally wrecked in a squall at Shoal Bay on Saturday evening. The cable holding her snapped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, island trading schooner, has been posted as missing at the Caroline Group, and traders there believe that the she has gone down with all hands. A passenger by the N.D.L. liner, Nuen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Royal Tar
On Wednesday, at Wellington, the inquiry into the wreck of the Royal Tar was concluded. The master's certificate was suspended for six months, and he was ordered to pay £30, the cost of the…
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At the inquiry into the wreck of the Royal Tar one nautical assessor dissented from the finding, being of opinion that the wreck was due to the compass's bad position for navigation purposes…
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There has been another wreck on the New Zealand coast, attended with loss of life. The barque Royal Tar, built in 1876, by W. Marshall, of Nambucca, New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision in Darling Harbor. Ferry Steamer Damaged. Sydney
A collision occurred in Darling Harbour at 11.15 of Saturday night, between the Balmain Ferry Company's steamer Lady. Hampden and the Colonial Sugar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ketch Lost by a Collision
On Monday morning the barque Letterowe, while being towed from the new dock, Port Adelaide, to a berth in the South Australian Company's basin, ran into the ketch Teaser, which was lying alongside the…
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