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115627
Surname: Ann vessel
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1834 1 September
Place: Newcastle
Source: SMH
Details: Repaired after lying at Newcastle beach for considerable time. 100 pounds to repair.


167803
Surname: Eclipse (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 26 May 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Messrs. John Atkinson and James Reibey were the owners of the Eclipse cutter that was piratically seized out of Hunter River. These enterprising colonists by this single event, sustain a loss of 1000 pounds


174537
Surname: Eclipse (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 10 January 1912
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: In 1823 Sir Thomas Brisbane paid Newcastle a visit in HMS Satellite, Captain Currie. At this time the Hunter River district was famed far and wide for locating the respectable settlers who were arriving in Sydney by vessels entirely loaded with goods and passengers direct from the United Kingdom; and to meet their wants the Government had given permission to John Bingle to build a vessel expressly adapted to the trade which, called the Eclipse, and commanded by Captain Livingstone, was eminently suited to the carrying of passengers and the trade of the port.


176125
Surname: Eclipse (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: June 1823
Place: Sydney to Newcastle
Source: State Library of NSW - Diary by a servant of the Scott family, 8 Aug. 1821-Mar. 1824 p. 49
Details: Robert and Helenus Scott with their servant John Brown proceeded to Newcastle on the cutter Eclipse


162454
Surname: Gurnett vessel
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 12 April 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Australian
Details: The schooner Gurnett belonging to Mr. Street of Sydney seized by pirates off Nobbys


167947
Surname: Lady Nelson (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1800
Place: -
Source: Memoirs of Hydrography. Entry for Lieutenant James Grant
Details: The voyage of discovery of Lieutenant Grant, apparently undertaken with less than the usual amount of high patronage, has, in consequence, been greatly overlooked; it was singular in more respects than one. Captain Schank R.N., seems to have been in about the year 1800, a strong advocate for building small vessels in watertight compartments, and with sliding keels or centre boards. Under his direction the Lady Nelson of 60 tons was ordered to be so fitted, and the ultimate service allotted to her, was that of exploring the sea limits of the territory of New South Wales


175109
Surname: Lady Nelson (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 6 September 1817
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Benjamin Waterhouse, former mate of the Lady Nelson killed by natives near Port Stephens


167860
Surname: Lord Liverpool (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 7 May 1825
Place: Sydney - Newcastle
Source: Australian Reminiscences & Papers of L.E. Threlkeld. Edited by Niel Gunson
Details: Rev. Threlkeld, wife, son and another couple sailed from Sydney to Newcastle on the Lord Liverpool. The vessel obtained her lading sooner than usual and could not take all the passengers' luggage with her, part was to be brought in the Eclipse another vessel on the following day. They had a smooth passage and arrived at Newcastle on the following day, Sunday and took up their abode at the Inn


114686
Surname: Lord Liverpool vessel
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1830 22 November
Place: -
Source: In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832. Letter no 256
Details: Correspondence of the A.A. Company lost in the wreck of the Lord Liverpool


115618
Surname: Martha Ellen (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1856 4 July
Place: Nobbys
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Schooner from Melbourne. Washed over the Oyster Bank and saved only by the skill of the pilot


115617
Surname: Martha vessel
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1856 4 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Schooner from Geelong. Went ashore on the rocky strand inside Nobbys where she bilged


174543
Surname: Princess Charlotte (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1819
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: The colonial brig Princess Charlotte was built at Hunter River. She reached Port Jackson in October 1819. (NMH 6 March 1912)


168037
Surname: Raven (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 27 May 1804
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: On Wednesday morning arrived the Edwin and Raven from Newcastle. The latter freighted with 22 fine cedar logs and one ton of coals. She is only 11 tons burthen and made the passage down in fourteen hours with 24 persons to join the establishment besides her own people carried 17 casks of provisions besides water, baggage etc. The Edwin brought up 12 tons and a half of coals


166972
Surname: St. Michael (vessel)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 31 October 1825
Place: Sydney
Source: SG
Details: The ship St. Michael, Captain Beveridge, arrived in Sydney from Hobart


77139
Surname: Vessel Anna Josepha
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1801 2 October
Place: Hunter River
Source: HRA, Series I Vol. III p. 452
Details: Master - Hugh Meehan. Owner Lord & Meehan; 28 crew; cargo - 100 tons of coal + 4000 feet of timber from Hunter's River to Sydney


108145
Surname: Vessel 'Eclipse'
First Name: Spencer
Ship: -
Date: 1825 14/19 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: George Spencer escaped from Newcastle in the cutter Eclipse 11 May


127635
Surname: Vessel 'Fanny'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1853 19 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: John McLeod, for many years a tennant farmer under Andrew Lang of Dunmore. Brother in law of Joseph Wagdon of West Maitland. Drowned aged 38 at Newcastle in endeavouring to save the lives of the crew of the brig 'Fanny'


115306
Surname: Vessel 'Glatton'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1832 2 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: James Mudie and John Uhr thanking Captain Biddulph of the 'Sophia Jane' for assisting the sloop 'Glatton' when she was in a difficult situation near Nobbys Island


102363
Surname: Vessel 'Lark'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1833 2 April
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: 20 tons. Captain Mosman. Transporting cedar from Bungaree Norah to Sydney


102366
Surname: Vessel 'Sally'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1832 27 November
Place: Bungaree Norah, Central Coast NSW
Source: SG
Details: 18 tons. Taking cedar from Norah to Sydney