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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
214 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11
While coming from Port Stephens to Newcastle early on Saturday morning the small coastal steamer Williams sprang a leak, and after strenuous endeavours by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The wreck of the Williams was examined yesterday by the owner, Mr. W. E. Flannery, and the representative of the Sydney Marine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was an extraordinary response to the call for volunteers to man the steamer Makura, by the Union Steamship Company, to-day. A crowd of 500 men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ullmaroa, owned by Huddart Parker, joined the list of idle vessels yesterday, and the crew paid off. The steamer was scheduled to sail at noon for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Statements that the recent reductions in shipping fares were the result of German companies coming back into the Australian trades are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from San Francisco that the steamer Orteric has stranded on Fishrock, 70 miles north, in a fog. The vessel is high up on the rocks, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Instead of eating his share of the jam issued to him on the S.S. Aeon, Charles Dorrington, a fireman, took it ashore, in contravention of the ship's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ten of the crew of the coastal steamer Smerdis were drowned in the Morsey. The vessel was carried by a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the District Court yesterday, Henry James Attar, of Newport, trading as "Agar Bros." claimed £120 damages from Percy Norton Russell,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As a result of a desperate struggle with a patient whom he was bringing from Bega to the Reception House,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is believed that the steamer, Maid of Delos, has foundered with all hands off the Welsh coast, during the recent gale. She carried 26. Much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the height of a gale off Wilsons Promontory on Monday night a serious collision occurred between the American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hope has been abandoned for the crew of the Maid of Delos. The wildest weather has prevailed on the English coast and in the Atlantic. The s.s. New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The R.M.S. Niagara cleared the Heads this afternoon for Vancouver. She was scheduled to leave at noon, but it was nearly three hours later before she left…
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