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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 11
The well-known little collier Illaroo arrived here at daybreak this morning for the purpose of loading a cargo of Wallarah coal for Sydney. The sea was rough, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the early hours of Monday morning the weather, which on Sunday night had been very threatening, developed into a strong south-east gale, accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American four-masted schooner Resolute, inward bound to Sydney from Gray's Harbour, with lumber, had a narrow escape from being wrecked on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Port Macquarie states that yesterday morning a portion of a very large ship's wheel had been picked up on the beach near Tacking Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The new cable steamer Restorer, which arrived recently at Adelaide, was built Elswick, and engined by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Wodonga arrived here to-day from Cooktown, bringing eight survivors of the crew of the barque Edith, which was wrecked off Now Caledonia on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Brinkworth, of the tug Irresistible, came across a quantity of wreckage nine miles east-south-east of Port Stephens yesterday. One Portion was about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News was received here to-day of the total loss of the coasting schooner Elliston, which has been driven ashore at Korogoro Head, near Tacking Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now that the gales have abated evidence is available of the injury caused by the blow among the coasting [?]cet. On the northern portion of the coastline…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—During a terriffic storm which swept suddenly along the coast of Chili, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large quantity of wreckage has been found on the beach near Cattal Creek, ten miles south from here, including bags of flour, cool baskets, the truck of a mast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—A collision occasioning great loss of life has occurred off Marseilles, between the Marsilles Navigation Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the trip of the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Namol to Port Stephens yesterday, the passengers were afforded an opportunity of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer-Sydney, which left here shortly before midnight on Tuesday, broke down off Lake Macquarie Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Nera, which left Fremantle on Saturday for Melbourne and Sydney, is an addition to the French liners trading between France, and Australia. The Nera was built…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon the Adelaide S.S. Company's steamer Albany took the ground near the guide wall of the southern wave-trap in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Everyone knows of the lifeboat, and what an almost sacred thing it is in a place which commands the entrance to a port. How many, however, know of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new type of steamer is seen in the Gangesberg, which was recently launched, and is described as a lighting discharger. She has 24 dorricks, so arranged that they can all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The judgment of Mr. Justice Dingham, King's Bench Division, in the action brought by the Board of Trade against the owners of the ship Glen Park, which was wrecked in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Ada and Eva. from the Manning River to Creymouth with a cargo of Ironbark ran ashore in a sinking condition at Gillespi[?]'s Bluff, 100 miles south of Hokitike, New…
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