The Spartan Ashore
Private advice was received in Newcastle yesterday that the American ship Spartan had gone ashore at Hawall, all hands being saved. The Spartan left Newcastle on June…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 15
A Schooner Ashore
Advice has been received from Samos that the schconer Priscilla, owned by Mr. H. J. Moors, has gone ashore on Savail Island. The vessel was leaving Salelarlu at the time or…
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Further particulars regarding Messrs. Howard Smith's new steamer Acon have been received. She is a steel screw steamer of 4200 tons gross, 2745 net register,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage Washed Ashore
The first authentic evidence that a wreck had occurred was afforded by a mast and spars drifting through Nobbys. Later on Coxswain M'Kinnon went out and secured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping Casualties. Schooner Jones Bros. Lost All Hands Missing
The well-known schooner Jones Brothers, for a number of years well known in the coal trade between Newcastle and Sydney, foundered near the…
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Advices received from San Francisco state that the steamer Zealandia, of the Oceanic S.S. Company's line, arrived there recently from Nome and Seattle with one starboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Jones Bros.' Wreck. Searching for Bodies
There were no fresh developments yesterday in connection with the wreck of the schooner Jones Brothers. The water police patrolled the Stockton beach in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Jones Bros.' Wreck. Three Bodies Recovered
The search for the bodies of the captain and crew of the wrecked schooner Jones brothers has resulted in the recovering at three. On Saturday Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckkage at Anna Bay. Nelson's Bay
A mainsail with boom and gaff attached was washed up on Anna Bay beach on Saturday morning. It is not yet known to what vessel the wreckage belonged…
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Sir,—In view of the recent deplorable disaster to the Jones Brothers and the question of the lookout, we give the following particulars:—Qulte recently Mr. W…
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Sir,—l do not consider it humane to blame the master of the Helen Nicoll in any way for the late sad disaster, and loss of life by the wreck of the Jones Brothers…
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The water police were again actively engaged yesterday searching for the remaining bodies of the Jones Brothers' crow. No further bodies came ashore, but…
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The adjourned inquest on the bodies of William Lilja Manson, Charles Petersen, seamen, and Charles Johnson, cook, who were lost in the wreck of the schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schooner Eliza Allen
The coasting schooner Eliza Allen had a perilous thee on Tuesday evening. She was approaching Sydney Heads, being bound from the Richmond River to Sydney, with…
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The inquest on the bodies of the men recovered from the wreck of the schooner Jones Brothers was to have been resumed yesterday…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The traffic of the Suez Canal was temporarily suspended and considerable alarm created by the, steamer Chatham,…
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Advice has been received from Manila that the barque West York, Captain Forster, well known in Sydney and Newcastle, was lost in Flat Island on the 17th July, while…
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The ketch Hero, which parted from her moorings, and went ashore at Gabo Island on Wednesday is a total wreck. The cargo and engine have been saved. The ketch Kiora, which…
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On August 14 a bottle was picked up at Thursday Island containing a message that unless the ketch Spray had arrived at a Queensland port by the end of September a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mishap to a Steamer
There was some excitement at Fremantle on Saturday owing to the steamer Grantala crashing into the Quay. The vessel was leaving for the Eastern States, and had…
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