Broken Tail Shaft. Steamer Alice's Experience
The coastal steamer Alice, which left Sydney about eleven o'clock on Wednesday night for Newcastle with the schooner Cavan in tow, met with the full…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1915
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11
German Steamer. Runs a Blockade. Copenhagen
The steamer Frederik the VIII., has arrived at Copenhagen from New York, with five, German naval officers. She passed the British blockade in the…
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The Danish steamer Annam, which recently arrived in Hobson's Bay, is something entirely new in ships as far as Australian waters are concerned. She is…
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In 1883, as the schooner Albatross was driving east across the Banks in a murky storm, she met her end from a low-lying berg. Of her crew of ten, only two…
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No tidings have been received of the schooner Cavan, which was cast off from the steamer Alice, when the latter vessel broke the shaft of her propeller near…
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The French barque Sully, which arrival in port from Wallaroo last evening, brought welcome tidings of the four-masted schooner Cavan, for which the…
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The American four-masted schooner Columbia, which arrived in Sydney this morning from Paget Sound, brought 1,000,000 feet of Oregon for Moasrs…
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Mr. Tudor, the Minister for Customs, received a telegram to-day from the Customs Collector of Tasmania, stating that it was unlikely that the wreckage found…
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The schooner Cavan has been again spoken, and her arrival at this port may be expected any hour. Captain Kendall, master of the Union…
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In tow of Messrs, J. and A. Brows's tug Stormcock, the schooner Cavan arrived in port at 8.46 o'clock yesterday morning, and the vessel, looking none the…
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Messrs. W. Croosby and Company's steamer Moonta, when she soils from Newcastle to-day, loaded with coal for Ilo Ilo, Philippine Islands, will sever her…
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A steamer has been mined off Scarborough. The crew were saved…
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The Woolgar, whose construction had just been completed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, to the order oat the Melbourne Steamship Co., Ltd., Melbourne, left the river Tyne…
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News has reached Sydney of the wreck of the well-known barque Inverurie. The particulars yet to hand are meagre, but it appears that, laden with a full cargo…
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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Nile, 6700 tons, bound for Kobe, has been wrecked. The vessel struck on the Howsro Rock,…
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The new steamer Woolgar, which is now [?]n route from England to Australia to augment the a services of the Melbourne Steamship Company, Limited, has,…
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The steamer Penarth, 3035 tons, belonging to the Laborrouere Steamship Company, bound from the River Plate to Hull, foundered near the coast of…
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The Howard Smith, Limited's, new steamer Chronos was launched on the Clyde to-day…
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The Italian merchant ship Varesa struck an Austrian mine at Pola. The whole of her crew were lost…
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The Orient Company's mail steamer Ophir, which left Sydney for London on December 19th, is ashore in the Suez Canal…
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