Wilfred Hayler’s Newcastle Harbour photographs
Wilfred Hayler was in his late teens when he decided to photograph the ships and other activities around the busy harbour of his home town, Newcastle, NSW. Wilfred with one…
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…