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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905

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An Island Cruise. Discovery of a Wreck. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 5

The schooner Enterprise returned to Sydney to-day from a three-months' cruise in the South Seas, having been chartered for a special trip, the object of which has not…

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Steamer Albany Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 5

Information was received in the city last night to the effect that the steamer Albany, well-known in the passenger and cargo trade, had gone ashore near the…

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The Steamer Kiel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 4

The steamer Kiel, of the German-Australian line, made a smart passage from Hamburg at Adelaide, and averaged 12½ knots throughout. She sailed from Hamburg on January 21,…

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Steamer Marjorie Ashore. at Cronulla Beach. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 5

Information was received in the city this morning that a three-masted steamer was ashore at Cronulla Beach, and later in the day Mr. F. G. Walcy, manager of…

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The Albany Wreck. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 5

The steamer Albany, which was stranded on a reef near the entrance to the Nambucca River at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, is now a total wreck. At…

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A Steamer Ashore. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 5

When the German steamer Prinz Sigismund, which arrived to-day from the East, was passing through the Philippine Islands, some excitement was caused…

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The Albany Wreck. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 5

The crew of the wrecked steamer Albany which went ashore near Nambucca Heads on Sunday last, returned to Sydney by the steamer Wollowra to-day. The Wollowra…

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New Island Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1905 · page 4

Messrs. Buras, Philp, and Co., Ltd., the contractors with the Federal Government for the Western Pacific mail services, have received cable advice of the sailing of their latest…

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Turbine Atlantic Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Atlantic Line steamer Victorian, fitted with the turbine, has made a successful voyage across the Atlantic. The absence of…

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Ketch Leueneuwa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 4

The auxiliary ketch Leueneuwa arrived at Sydney on Tuesday from the Solomon Group. The vessel has been engaged in the inter-island trade, and she has returned to Sydney…

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Steamer Needwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 4

The Union S.S. Company has purchased in England the steamer Needwood, which is to be re-named the Kattuna. She is a cargo steamer of the same class at the Karori and…

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Wreck of the Shrewsbury

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 4

Advices from Singapore, dated March 13. state that the British steamer Shrewsbury, 3223 gross tonnage, which was stranded at the Paracel group of islands and reefs, south of…

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Smallpox on a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—A serious outbreak of smallpox occurred on board the steamer Nile during the voyage from Buenos Ayres to Southampton…

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Ferry Steamer Stranded. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 5

A Heavy fog which settled over the harbour yesterday morning was responsible for the Manly, one of the newest of the Port Jackson Company's fleet, going…

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Wreck of the Ashmount

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The steamer Ashmount, of 3579 tons, homeward-bound from Melbourne, is stranded on Halworth Point, near East London,…

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A Disabled Steamer. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 5

Commander Wright, of the R.M.S. China, reports having, at six o'clock last evening when just south at cape Leouwin, passed an Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer…

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The Albany Wreck. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 5

The Marine Court to-day inquired into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the Albany, on March 26 last. Judge Backhouse presided, the nautical assessors…

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Hamburg Steamer Fleet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 4

The number and tonnage of steamer registered at the port of Hamburg has increased during the last ten years as follows:—1894, 365 steamers with 473,981 net register tons;…

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Wreck Looted by Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 9

An eventful voyage was that of the Bristol steamer Menantie, which ended with the wreck of the vessel near Coronel on the coast of Chili recently. Describing…

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A Lifeboat Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 3

For some time there has been an effort to establish a lifeboat services in Wellington. On New Year's Day three lives were lost from all overturned yacht at the…

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