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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 12
Being suspicious that a ketch off St. Helon's was indulging in illegal crayfishing, a bailiff, Wallace Challenger, and some troopers decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Newcastle is to be re-commissioned. she will probably enter into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is practically certain that the recommissioned ship Newcastle, of the Newcastle and hunter River Steamship Company, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Tokio message states that the special service vessel Kwanti grounded off Tsuruga in a storm. She carried a crew of 150, half of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A destructive fire broke out in a cargo of palm kernels and oil on the steamer Sulina, which docked at Hull from West Africa. While the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BROTHER IGNACE and other survivors of the lost steamer Cigale have reached Mauritius. Brother Ignace shared a six-feet raft with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The total of the ship's company of the Japanese steamer Kwanto, which was wrecked, was 207. The number saved is 111, 52 have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Largely as the outcome of the Trevessa disaster, a special lifeboat wireless plant has been perfected. A proportion of the lifeboats on every…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Booking by steamer for the south from Newcastle during the holidays is well up to the record of other years, despite rumours of trouble on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unexpected developments took place to-day in regard to the steamer Canberra, which reached Brisbane this afternoon from Sydney. A wireless message…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. The Union Company's new steamer Comi[?], which was on its maiden voyage to New Zealand, ran ashore two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between midnight and two o'clock this morning in thick, rainy weather, the steamer Konini went ashore about two miles from the entrance to Bluff…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Christmas Eve reunion of the Navigation Department's lifeboat crew in Newcastle was held in the boatshed this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A preliminary inquiry into the wreck of the cargo steamer Konini, which went ashore at the entrance to Bluff Harbour, was held at Invercargill…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Devon, on her way to Australia from Liverpool, put in at Dakar, with boiler trouble. The surveyors recommend that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As a result of a cask of oil falling on his right hand, an engineer on the steamer Inga, Mr. James Younger, of 66 Mercury-street, Penshurst, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Jerstedt, of the Swedish-Australia pine vessel Unenden. which has just arrived at Fremantle, has a distressing story to tell of the crew's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Union Steamship Company has just received an unwelcome and unexpected Christmas Box. One of their new cargo carriers, the Konini, on her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glnyo Maru has been abandoned. Yamata, the captain, was last over the side…
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