Steamer Royal George. Passengers Rescued. Quebec
The passengers have been rescued from the steamer Royal George, which went aground in the St. Lawrence in a fog…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1912
300 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 15
The A.u.s.n. Steamer Indarra
The Indarra, the new steamer of the A.U.S.N. Company, is expected to arrive at Australia next month. She is a twin-screw steamer of 9200 tons of steel to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Irish Home Rule. Unionists Will Wreck It. London
Mr. Bonar Law, the leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, made a vigorous protest against Home Rule for Ireland, during a speech at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New North Coast Steamer
The North Coast Company's new steamer Coombar, specially designed for the North Coast trade, on route to Sydney from Clyde, Scotland, arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Wrecks in September
The number and net tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of September, 1912,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Refugees Wrecked. Two Hundred Drowned. London
The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that several salling vessels crowded with refugees have been wrecked in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barque Joseph Craig Ashore. Melbourne
The Queenscliff lighthouse authorities report that the barque Joseph Craig, 99[?] tons, from Kalpara, New Zealand, has gone aground near the heads, below the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Treasure Trove. General Grant Wreck
The ship General Grant was wrecked in a cave in the Auckland Islands on May 14, 1866. The remarkable story of her loss, which was not published till the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Aground
The steamer Hessen went aground abreast of the pilot station in Newcastle Harbour yesterday afternoon, shortly before two o'clock, while being removed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Holmdale
The steamer Holmdale, which arrived at Newcastle yesterday to the agency of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, comes on a unique trading mission. She is to load a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unruly Refugees. Menace a Steamer's Crew. Constantinople
The British merchant steamer Orsis was conveying six hundred refugees from Salonika, when the food supply ran short, and the refugees menaced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Steamer Wandilla
According to cable advices, the Adelaide Company's new steamer Wandilla was despatched from Glasgow on November 22nd for Fremantle Adelaide, Melbourne, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Philippine Typhoon. Two Towns Wrecked. Washington
Reports have been received by the State Department from Manila of a terrific typhoon is Samaz and Loyte, islands of the Philippines, north of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Arca
The next steamer to leave Singapore for Austrlaia with oils, spirits, etc., on account of the British Imperial Oil Company, will be the Area, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Friendship a Total Wreck
A message was received in Newcastle from Tweed Heads yesterday to the effect that the steamer Friendship was still on the bar and full of water, and later in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How a Steamer Founders
Although it is unfortunately, too often that a fine vessel will founder at sea, it seldom happens that there are eyewitnesses to the occurrence other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Oil-tank Steamer
On October 10 the oil-tank steamer Natica, built at the Wallsend Shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wingram Richardson, Ltd., was taken to sea for steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Aground. Passengers Rescued. Duluth (Minnesota)
The Booth line steamer Easton went the rocks in a blinding snowstorm. There were 50 passengers on board, but they were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Norma Wreck Blown Up
News received from Adelaide states that the four-masted barque Norma, which was sunk at the Semaphore anchorage five years ago, and has been a source of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Company's Steamer
There were fewer than eight of the North Coast S.N. Company's steamers in port at Newcastle on Wednesday. These were the Wollongbar, for Dyren Bay:…
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