New German Steamer
On Saturday next a new mammoth steamer of 36,000 tons will be launched at the Vulcan Works, Stettin, on account of the Norddoutscher Lloyd. This vessel is to be employed…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
A Steamer's Trials
According to advices to hand, the screw steamer Apawa. built by Messrs, John Fullarton and Co., Paisley, for Mr. J. H. Williams, of Wellington, New Zealand, left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cargo Steamer Founders. Twenty-one Persons Missing. London
The Great Eastern Railway Company's Cargo steamer Yarmouth foundered in a heavy sea during the voyage from Holland to Harwich…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hawea Ashore
News has been received from, Wellington that the Union S.S. Company's steamer Hawea, while leaving Greymouth, timber-laded for Launceston and Adelaide, was struck by…
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The barque Annesley, bound from Dalhousie (New Brunswick) to Melbourne, has gone ashore at Bonaventure…
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News from Wellington states that it is expected that the steamer Hawea, which is ashore at the Greymouth entrance, will be come a total wreck. She had on board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Fifeshire. Marine Court Inquiry. Sydney
The Marine Court of Inquiry, consisting of Judge Docker and Captains A. Hay and Boldchild, assessors, to-day Investigated the circumstances surrounding the…
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Messrs. Dalgety and co., Ltd., advise that the steamer Tokomaru, now in port at Newcastle, will go on the wool berth to-morrow to load for London. This will be the last of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Fifeshire. Result of the Inquiry. Sydney
The inquiry into the wreck of the barque Fifeshire, in the Gilbert Islands, on August 21, was continued in the Marine Court to-day, before Judge Docker,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Fifeshire. Master Suspended. Sydney
The matter of the wreck of the barque Fifeshire in the Gilbert Islands on August 21st was further considered by the Court of Marine Inquiry to-day. Judge Docker…
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LONDON, Saturday.—A Chinese steamer with 600 passengers foundered during a voyage from Amoy to Tungen, 200 persons being drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Harbour Collision. Steamer Newcastle Damaged. Sydney
A collision occurred in the harbour yesterday afternoon, resulting in considerable damage being done to the steamer Newcastle and the hulk Josefa, and the…
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Mr. David Anderson, the manager of the Orient company, has received a cable announcing that the first of the five steamers ordered by the company, in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder on a Mail Steamer. Perth
The day after the R.M.S. Himalaya left Colombo for Fremantle on November 1st, a Lascar heard cries of distress coming from the direction of the spar deck. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mareeba Wreck
Lloyd's "Shipping Gazette" of October a has a reference to the Marine Court finding concerning the wreck of the Steamer Mareebe on the Stockton beach. The journal says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Side Tank Steamer
"On October 1 the handsome steel screw steamer Stigstad, built by Messrs. W. Gray and Co., Limited, West Hartlepool, to the order of Messrs. A. F. K. Klaveness and Co., of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Hawea
The old Hawea, a Union Company's steamer of 1114 not tons, has made her last voyage, and lies, piled up on the north tip head at Greymouth. The…
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News has been received from Noumea that the barque Aleida has been wrecked at Surprise Island. The view of the vessel effected a landing on Pott Island, and from there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Falls of Halladale Wrecked. Melbourne
The barque Falls of Halladale struck the rocks at Peterborough (Vic.) at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, and she now lies submerged up to her main rigging,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Buceros Aground. Adelaide
The steamer Buceros, bound from Geelong to London, which intended calling at Kingston for wool, ran on a sandbank about five miles from the anchorage at 6…
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