Harbour Improvements. Another Steamer Delayed
Work in connection with the deepening of the water at the entrance to the harbour was continued yesterday. Nothing has yet been done towards calling the Citizens'…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
369 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 19
The Inverkip Wreck
Particulars have been received by the English mail of the collision off the Fastnet Rock between the barque Inverkip and the ship Loch Carron. The Inverkip…
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The steamer Waimana, of the Northern S.S. Company, which has been laid up at Auckland for a considerable time has been sold to an Australian syndicate, and will be employed in…
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A telegram received from Dunedin, dated September 15, states that a gathering of shipping and commercial men was held on the steamer Delphic, the party being entertained…
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A handsome screw steamer, built of steel, was launched son August 13 from the shipbuilding yard of Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., Ltd., at Cleveland, Middlesborough. She has beet…
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The P. and O. Company have given instructions to their auctioneers to offer the steamer Australia for sale by public auction, at the Port Melbourne Town Pier on the 29th inst…
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There was a large gathering of ladies and gentlemen at the launching of the new steamer Baroona at Wickham yesterday morning. The vessel was built by…
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The Howard Smith Company's steamer Time arrived from Wallaroo and Port Pirie via Sydney yesterday, with 1700 tons of concentrates. 200 tons of zincs, and 100 tons of…
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The Sydney underwriters have received advices from Colombo of the wreck of the steamer Ashley, well known in the Australian trade. The Ashley is a Belfast steamer, owned…
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The Union liner Mokoia, which arrived yesterday from New Zealand, via Sydney, reports heavy weather along the New Zealand coast. For several days a violent south-west gale…
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There has been launched at Hongkong, from the Kowloon works of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, a steamer named Shanghai. This steamer, which is described as…
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This boat, which behaved so well yesterday, was launched in Newcastle on 27th May, 1897, when a banquet was held in celebration of the event. She was…
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The water police are engaged watching the vessel in order to prevent any pilfering. Constable Balmer was told off for duty on the Stockton breakwater last…
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The fine four-masted French barque Adolphe, which was just completing a fast passage of 85 days from Antwerp to this port, in ballast, was totally wrecked…
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News has been received of the total loss of the steamer Tymeric, in the Straits of Magelan, while homeward bound from the West Coast of South America, she was laden with…
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That another wreck should have been added to the list of casualties occurring at this port is a matter to be deeply regretted by all. To the owners…
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There were no developments in connection with the wrecked barque Adolphe on the Oyster Bank yesterday. The vessel remains in the same position as when she…
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The history of lifeboat work at the port of Newcastle is a record of heroic action on the part of brave men who freely risked their lives to succour…
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The German steamer Medan arrived at Sydney on Saturday evening from Hongkong via the Caroline and Marshall Islands, with a cargo of copra, and after complying with the…
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There was no change yesterday in the position of the French barque Adolphe, which was wrecked on the Oyster Bank on Friday. The vessel appears pretty much…
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