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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
130 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 7
The Galway Castle, outward bound from Durham, baa been torpedoed. There were 941 persons on board including 201 comprising the crew, 300…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While Messrs. J. and A. Brown's tug Irresistible was en route from Sydney for Newcastle yesterday afternoon with the schooner Cavan in tow, the air pump…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual meeting and presentation of awards in connection with the Royal Shipwreck, Relief, and Humane Society took place in the Town hall to-night. There…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British official message from North Russia states that tho largest enemy armored steamer on the river Dwina has been captured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cable message has been received by Mr. Poynton, the Acting Minister for the Navy, that the steamer Tasman, a Dutch vessel, which was commandeered at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. and A. Brown's schooner Cavan made another breakaway last night. It was intended, yesterday, to despatch her in tow of the small tug…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →En route from Paagoumene (New Caledonia) to Sydney, with a cargo of chrome ore, the French steamer Saint Louis called at Newcastle this afternoon to replenish bunkers, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Admiralty reports that a torpedo gunboat on Monday was sunk in collision with a merchantman. One officer and 52 men are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Rome message says that the American, British and Italian warships have destroyed Durazzo naval base; also the warships anchored there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Elder, Dempster steamer Burutu (3902 tons), which was lost in a collision on Thursday, was inward bound. The night was dark, and there was a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The correspondent of "The Times" at Amsterdam says that Austrian reports describe ex-King Ferdinand as a nervous wre[?]k. He refused to leave the train at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of 150 women and children aboard the Leinster, only 15 were rescued, Numerous corpses were washed ashore, wearing life-belts improperly fastened…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is to be suspected that no few of our citizens who do not wear any at all need glasses of the strongest grade. No matter how palpable a fact they never…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The shores around Lincoln Island, Alaska, where the Princess Sophia was wrecked, ore strewn with corpees, Whole familles nave been wiped out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commonwealth Navy has intercepted a wireless message sent from Caute, the American wireless station in the Philippines, which was as follows:—"A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from New Jersey states that the steamer Saomtia struck a mine 26 miles off the coast, and sank in 20 minutes. There are 37 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constructed to defeat the designs of enemy submarines, the steamer Kent, now at Melbourne, forms a striking illustration of an art in shipbuilding not known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram from San Francisco states that 1S members of the crew of the steamer Damaru, which was wrecked while lighting off Guam, an Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To be able to breathe freely hear clearly, smell, taste, and arise in the morning refreshed and strong with head and throat clear and free from phlegm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some remarkable wreckage has been washed ashore near Bateman's Bay, on the south coast, and is engaging the attention, of the Navigation Department…
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