Adolphe, Newcastle’s most enduring shipwreck
For well over a century, residents of the port city of Newcastle, NSW, have lived with the wreck of the French barque Adolphe, lost on September 30, 1904. The remains…
A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.
Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story
Stockton schoolboy Leslie Harris was 10 years old on January 5, 1922, when he went aboard the four-masted schooner Helen B Sterling, along with his mother Edith and his father…
The Bertha in full sail. Postcard by Hood, Sydney.
The German sailor, the tailor’s daughter and the tragic White Wife of Otterswick
MAYBE young German sailor Adolf Nordman dreamed of being more than friends with Nellie Shephard, the tailor's pretty young daughter whom he met in the port of Newcastle, NSW, in 1909. His postcards, written in the years before the outbreak of World…