Tag: Newcastle Maritime History

View from Stockton to Newcastle (Illustrated Sydney News 16 February 1867)

April 7, 2017

      This extraordinary view is based upon a photograph taken around 1865. See: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/1990-mulimbahhouseeje.pdf A discussion of this engraving and its original source photograph from circa 1865 is here: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/03/07/earliest-photograph/ Gionni Di Gravio University Archivist & Chair, Hunter Living Histories

Wreck of the Cawarra, at Newcastle (Illustrated Sydney News 16th August 1866)

April 7, 2017

THE RECENT GALE THE first premonition of the storm was felt on the morning of the 11th ult; : the barometer became very unsettled, and heavy banked clouds along the eastern horizon became heavier as the day wore on, until about two o’clock, when the wind, shifted from W. to S. and E., and the … More Wreck of the Cawarra, at Newcastle (Illustrated Sydney News 16th August 1866)

Wreck of the Victor, at Newcastle. 16th April 1866

April 6, 2017

  WRECK OF THE VICTOR, AT NEWCASTLE. ON the 16th ult. the brig Victor, of and for Melbourne from Newcastle, with coals, was becalmed off the latter port, and slowly drifted ashore until the captain, not liking the vessel’s position, attempted, unsuccessfully, to wear her, and immediately afterwards she bumped heavily. The steam tug Prince … More Wreck of the Victor, at Newcastle. 16th April 1866