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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
261 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
The cargo steamer Wear, 1869 tons gross, and owned by the James Paterson and Company Proprietary, of Melbourne, went aground near Port Hacking,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Frederick, Vanderbilt's yacht Warrior is ashore off the Colombian coast. The Duchess and Duke of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huddart, Parker, Limited, have ordered from the shipbuilding firm of Denny's, Limited, a new 20-knot turbine steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The north-easterly wind which blew yesterday in Sydney veered to north-westerly early this morning. Gradually increasing in velocity, it had assumed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two passanger steamers, the Monroe and the Nantucket, came into collision off the Winter Quarter Lightship. The Monroe was struck amidships,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The German ship Hera, bound for Falmouth went on to the rocks off Nare Point, Cornwall, last night. Twenty of the crew, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Moa, a vessel of 195 tons gross, took fire five miles from Wanganul Heads this morning, and was burned to the water's edge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Detmold, now in port at Newcastle, originally arrived at Makatea on the 30th December from Bahla Blauca, Under charter to load a cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Grace Darling was wrecked on Tuesday, near Fremantle, and her craw or five was brought fats part title warning by, a fishing boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Cambewarra, belonging to the Government of New South Wales, while on her voyage from Holland to Sydney was wrecked shoot forty mites from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. George Hawtrey's Company acted the play "General John Regan" at Westport. Four hundred men attacked the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six sallers, who left the wreck of the steamer Cambewarra, have arrived as Dongarra. A message from that township states that the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fred Taissanger and August Westermann, two members of the chief mate's boat belonging to the wrecked Camberwarra, arrived at Fremantle to-day. They…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain F. Cumming, Deputy Superintendent of Navigation, has received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at Port Stephens, that the steamer Hurst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A well-known coasting boat, the Moa, suddenly burst into fiame in the Wanganui rordstead, five or six miles from the entrance A terrific explosion occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy gales are raging along the English coast. Several wrecks have occurred, and a number of lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The leaders of the Labour party contemplate hiring a tug to meet the steamer Umgeni, on which the men who have been deported from South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Passengers arriving by the steamer Lapland report that a brilliant meteor plunged into the ocean in close proximity to the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mexico, a Norwegian vessel, was stranded at Saltsea, on the Irish coast, in a tempest. Two of her crew reached the shore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A motor launch, the Mavis, 26 feet long, owned by Mr. G. R. Summerhayen architect, of Castlereagh-street, Sydney, was wrecked on the rocks near the…
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