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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
242 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 13
A mysterious explosion wreaked the huge tower erected at Torachelling for the salvage of £2,000000 worth of gold nod sliver from the wreak of the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A romantic search has been undertaken by a police trooper and a guide in the hope of finding a treasure of 786 gullders, believed to have been saved from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After grounding on a sand spit during Thursday morning's Heavy fog, a launch finished up on the breakwater. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The steam fishing boat Marani, owned by Petersen Brothers, of Port Macquarie, which went aground at Port Macquarie during the heavy fog on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamship Coldwater, en route from Savannah to London, was struck by the Dollar line vessel President Wilson, and sank off Cape Lookout, on the Carolina…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cammell Laird and Co. have launched at Birkenhead the Melanesian Missions steamer Southern Cross, which will sail for the Solomon Islands on September…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. S. A. Fitzgerald, of Potts Point, Sydney, who is on a holiday visit to Newcastle, mentioned in the course of an interview yesterday that he was an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scene below the Newcastle cliffs on the morning of September 12, 1878, when the s.s. City of Newcastle was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Yesterday morning, about half-past 6, the citizens of Newcastle were thrown into a state of intense excitement by the firing of the signal guns on Captain Allan's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The crew of the fishing cutter Minnie Simms had a thrilling experience yesterday, when the small vessel was driven on to the rocks of Kangaroo Island, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Edward Buxton, of Merewether, called at this office yesterday. He explained that he had been interested in the publication of the photograph of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Ca., Ltd., advise the resumption of their full passenger services. The Hunter, having completed the annual overhaul,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerable damage was done to the deck fittings on the steamer Golden Rod when she ran into a howling gale and rough seas off the New Zealand coast…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Palmerston Brown, of Dundas-street, Mayfield, has forwarded to this office a photograph, taken in 1876, of a group of survivors of the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the morning of September 12, 1878, my brother and I were awakened by the signal guns fired from Allen's Hill-now Fort Scratchley—indicating that a ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Due to the silting up of the river bed, the steamer Dumosa ran aground when attempting to berth at the Colonial Sugar Company's wharf at Yarraville to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second grounding in six week occurred in Newcastle Harbour last night. The Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Dundula went ashore at 10.35 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In attempting a pancake landing at Blenheim aerodrome after his machine had developed a fault in the elevator control while flying across Cook Strait from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. Lily Murphy, 19, received fatal injuries when a taxicab collided with an electric pole at Coorparoo, early on Sunday morning. The woman's husband,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In recognition of sets of bravery, the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Human[?] Society's [?] meda[?] and certificates will be presented to…
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