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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 16
After a stormy passage of 13 days from Tasmania to Auckland the ketch, Miena, when has been purchased for the New Zealand coastal trade, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The burning north pier pavilion at Blackpool, the popular Lancashire seaside resort, was watched by 200,000 people who packed the promenades and ventured into the water. The damage caused by the fire was estimated at £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Safe in the arms of his master, a small black and white dog looks wonderingly at a great St. Bernard, the largest pet at a doll and pet show at the Junction Infants' School…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The reception accorded the Qantas flying-boat Coorong on her arrival at 6.25 p.m. was a great improvement on that of last week…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A hawser which snapped on a boat at Darling Harbor to-day curled itself around David McFarlane's right ankie and practically tore off the foot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The tug J. A. Boyd and the small coastal steamer Ready were still aground on the sandbank north of Cooktown yesterday morning when the airliner Carinthis…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On June 21, 1867 (writes Mr. W. J. Goold) the schooner Catherine Hill, bound from the Richmond River to Sydney with timber, ran into a heavy gale off Lake Macquarie. She soon began to leak very badly, and the skipper, as a last resource, decided to beach…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The German steamer. Leuna. at present in Australian waters, is to be diverted to take part in an intensive search for the missing German training bargue Admiral Kaepfanger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It was announced by Howard Smith Ltd. to-day that George Burton, a ship-breaker of Williamstown, Victoria, had purchased the old steamer Edina. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On her first visit to Australia, the British steamer Llanover, of 4958 tons, entered Newcastle Harbour yesterday, and berthed at the Silo Wharf, alongside the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When the Mackarra berthed at Cairns this morning from the South, it was reported that Harry Roy Jackson, 48, third engineer, had been missed from his cabin…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Enormous damage has been caused by a gale which swept the North Island. The wind attained a velocity of 75 miles an hour at Wellington, and left a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—In the "Newcastle Morning Herald" of July 13 Mr. J. Dart speaks about the wreck of the Cawarra. He believes he is the only person alive in Newcastle who…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →After three weeks' idleness at Newcastle, the British tramp steamer Salvus is loading a cargo of about 8000 tons of coal and 600 tons of bunkers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five Rebel 'planes took part in the bombing of the British steamer Staniland at Valencia. Bombs killed eight dockers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—Reading the letter of Mr. W. T. Davies published on July 15, I would like to inform him that Mrs. Moncrieff did not see the Cawarra wreck or the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Few men have had such an adventurous, picturesque career as Alexander Berry, whose old domicile, that for so long had graced the heights of North Sydney, was demolished a short time ago…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The tug J. A. Boyd, and the small steamer Ready, have put into Townsville for dry docking, after their eight days' ordeal on the Boer Reef, north of Cairns…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON her first visit to Newcastle, the Moller Line tramp Helen Moller (5259 tons gross) arrived here last night from Japan. To-day she bagan to load about 7000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The tug J. A. Boyd which, with the small steamer Ready, recently grounded on Boer Reef, north of Cooktown, was successfully slipped at Cleveland foundry…
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