New Steamer for the Ocean Company
On February 1 the twin-screw steamer Bellerophon, built and engined by Messrs. Workman, Clark, and Co., Limited, Belfast, for the Ocean Steamship Company, Limited, of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 13
The Alma Wreck
By the Union S.S. Company's steamer Manuka further particulars have been received concerning the loss of the barque Alma. The eastaways. who were picked up at Malden…
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Considerable damage was done during the cyclonic storm at New Caledonia last week. The steamer Pac[?]ique was moored alongside the quay at Noumea when the storm occurred…
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At about a quarter to eleven o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the forepeak of the steamer Thodo Fagelund. which was lying at No. 14 crane at the…
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Captain Lewlan, of the steamer Knutsford, reports that on March 30, in lar, 26,25 south, leag. 155,10 cast, he spoke a German schooner. The vessel, which was flying the signal letters…
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News has reached Sydney of a serious outbreak on the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Fultola, bound from Calcutta via Madras to Suva. Fiji, with a shipload of coolies. The vessels…
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The new [?]urret steamer Komura has left Fremantle for the eastern States. The Kombra was built for Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. Proprietary, Limited, by Messrs…
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Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn's new steamer Zephyr went down Sydney Harbour on Friday afternoon for the engineer's trial. Three runs over the measured mile gave her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecks at Tuamotos. Auckland
The four-masted barque County of Roxburgh, from Chili, bound for Melbourne, was wrecked at Tuamotos, on February 6, ten men being drowned…
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The coasting schooner Hilda, while proceeding to sea yesterday on a voyage to Sydney, took the ground at Stony Point, and remained fast for over an hour. There was a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked City. Its Beauty and Importance
Although San Francisco has been continuously visited by more or less severe earth-tremors since its foundation in 1845, the loss of life resulting therefrom has…
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News has reached Auckland from the islands to the effect that the Schooner Tahi[?]nne, commanded by Captain Georges Detter, is lost. Only two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Schooner Jap
The schooner Jap. which left Sydney for the Clarence River yesterday, had a narrow escape of going aground near North Head. At about half-past one o'clock, when between the…
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The American mail steamer Sierra brought news from San Francisco on Saturday that Captain Lynam, of the transport Thomas, reported that on the afternoon of January 53…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Breaks Down. Fishing Party in Trouble
The small steamer Kiaora broke down off Port Stephens on Sunday evening, and was drifting for three hours, when she was picked up by the steamer Kincumber…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barquentine Wrecked
The barquentine River Hunter, well known at Newcastle, was wrecked on the Hoklanga (N.Z.) bar on Sunday, as she was entering from Gisborne. All of the crew were saved…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Paris and Havre express train was wrecked yesterday near Paris. The driver and guard were killed, and several…
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Advices received from London state that on March 24 Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Hebburn, launched the steamer Rupara for the Adelaide Steamship Company…
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News has been received that a new steamer, christened the islander, has just been built at Glasgow for the Christmas Island Phosphate Company, Limited—a company formed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Returns
Speculation was rife yesterday forenoon when it was seen that schooner Ururoa which left Newcastle earlier in the day for Gisborne. New Zealand, was returning to port…
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