Sale of a Steamer
News has been received that the steel 'tween deck steamer Marcellus (formerly Duke of Norfolk and Nairnshire), of 3435 tons gross, built at Hebburn in 1889, by Messrs. R. and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909
282 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 15
An Oil Steamer
Another large steel screw tank steamer for the carriage of petroleum in bulk has been launched on the Tyne. The vessel has been built to the order of Messrs. H. E. Mess and…
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A timber scow owned by an Auckland firm was wrecked at Kawau the other night. The captain (Edward Piercy) his son (James Piercy), and the cook…
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The R.M.S. Morea, 11,000 tons new vessel of the Peninsula and Oriental Company's fleet, arrived from London this morning…
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On November 14 the trial trip of the steamer Paul, Paix, built on the now "Isherwood" system by Messrs. R. Craggs and Sons, Limited, Tees Dockyard, Middlesbrough, for Messrs…
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Particulars now to hand concerning the schooner which was flying distress signals off Seal Rocks on Thursday, show that the vessel was the Eugenie, bound…
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A member of the New York Maritime Exchange is the authority for the statement that a coast town of Guatemala is being supplied with electric service from the abandoned…
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The steamer Bellinger, outward bound from Cape Hawke to Sydney on Sunday, took the ground at Forester crossing. She remained hard and fast until yesterday forenoon, when…
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Sir,—On Saturday night a little after 10 o'clock I had a visit from Dr. Harris and Dr. Russell, stating that they bad got word from the Board of Health asking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →November Wrecks
The number of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of November 1908, and the number of lives lost, are as…
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Sir,—Mr. Brown's letter conveys an erroneous impression regarding the dispatch of the Ajax to Cape Hawke on Sunday, and reflects unjustly on the conduct…
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The steamer Era with a full cargo of coal on board, for the Howard Smith Company, went aground on Cockle Spit, near the tide gauge, this morning, when…
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The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's new twin-screw steamer Karuah, bound from Sydney to Port Stephens, went ashore on the Stockton beach early…
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Referring to the despatch of the pilot steamer to Cape Hawke with Dr. Harris on Saturday night, Captain Hacking, Deputy Superintendent of Navigation, states…
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The four-masted barque Andromeda, bound from Talcahuano to Sydney, was off Newcastle on Wednesday. Captain Decks, speaking to one of Mr. J. Clark's boatmen, said…
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The steamer Karuah, which went ashore on the Stockton Beach on Wednesday morning has not yet been salved. The southerly wind on Thursday night…
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The steamer Clan Ferguson has arrived here towing the steamer Hobart, 3310 tons, which was in a disabled condition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Difficulty at Liberia. German Steamer Fired At. London
Advices from French West Africa report that the Liberian Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British Naval Reserve officer, fired upon a…
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The barque Andromeda, which arrived off Sydney Heads on Thursday, and has since beau awaiting orders, entered the harbour early this moraine…
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Sir,—Having read Dr. Harris' letter in your issue of the 14th inst., in which some doubt is throw on my version of the incidents leading up to the despatch…
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