ships Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.

Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 7, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 27, 2019
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography

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…

Sailing ship Mount Stewart, photographed by Sam Hood.

A cavalcade of Newcastle shipping

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 30, 2019
Post category:History Militaria Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography

Newcastle has long been a busy shipping centre, and the list of ships to have visited the city would be enormous - if it was even possible to compile. The…