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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
282 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 15
The Union S.S. Company's steamer Penguin was wrecked on the Thomas Rocks in Cook's Strait on Friday night and the disaster was attended by dreadful less of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The British steamer Forest Castle, owing to a storm shifting a buoy, struck on a rock in Brest Bay. Nine of those abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram was received early this morning from the lighthouse-keeper at Wilson's Promontory reporting that the cargo steamer Lady Mildred, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News has been received of a disastrous collision resulting in the Dutch steamer Djambi being sunk and eight lives lost, in Singapore Harbour. The French mall steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Zingara has been chartered by the purchasers of the wrecked steamer Aeon and will leave Auckland in a few days for Christmas Island, fully equipped with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The German steamer Westfalen signalled Cape Schank at 9.40 a.m. yesterday that her propeller was broken. She also ran up another signal, which was not understood by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the Howard Smith Company's now steamer Eumerr[?]la reached Portarlington wharf on Saturday the captain telegraphed to reverse the engines, but for some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Mantua has been launched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Sauvage, of the French ship Jollerte, which was wrecked in This Harbour on February 11 [?]as arrived in Sydney. In giving an account of the disaster, he said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Marine Court inquiry was held to-day by Judge Fitzhardinge, with Captains J. K. Brodie and Vine Hall as assessors, into the casualty which betel the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Beechdale proceeding in ballast from Delagoa Bay to Newcastle, New South Wales, has been totally wrecked off the mouth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Huddart-Parker liner Ulimaroa met with a mishap while proceeding to Port Chalmers last week, and she has been delayed at Dunedin for docking. The Union…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—By the disaster Later to the steamer Presidente Roca, which caught fire and sank while travelling from Southern Argentina to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Company, intend building another up-to-date passenger steamer for the New Zealand trade. She will be of the Glimaroa type but 10ft longer than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Melbourne Steamship Company's new interstate passenger and cargo steamer Kapunda arrived at Newcastle from Sydney yesterday, and was berthed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The heroic behaviour of the stewardess (Mrs. Hope) and of the sole woman survivor (Mrs. Hannam) in connection with the Penguin wreck was beyond all praise…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The terrible disaster by which seventy-five of the passengers and crew of the Union Company's steamer Penguin lost their lives on Friday night, has caused a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At a meeting of the general committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution last month, the silver meadl was awarded to Mr. Henry Nicholas, coxswain-superintendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Redbridge arrived a Bunbury from Calcutta yesterday morning, flying the yellow flag, the officers [?]oaring that there was smallpox on board,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ship Forrest Hall, found from Newcastle to Antofagasta, has been wrecked. Advice has been received from Auckland that the vessel went ashore on Friday night…
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