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The Catterthun sinking at Seal Rocks, NSW

The Catterthun sinking at Seal Rocks, NSW

  • Post author:Greg Ray
  • Post published:November 29, 2020
  • Post category:History
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The loss of the SS Catterthun off Seal Rocks, NSW, in August 1895 is a story that has captured many imaginations. Thousands of gold sovereigns, en route to China, went…

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The Sygna storm of May 1974
Aerial view of the Sygna aground in May 1974.

The Sygna storm of May 1974

  • Post author:Greg Ray
  • Post published:May 27, 2020
  • Post category:Greg Ray's Writing/History/Newcastle, NSW, Australia/Vintage Photographs and Photography

If you ask most older Newcastle people where they were on the night the Norwegian bulk carrier Sygna went aground on Stockton Beach, they’ll probably be able to tell you.…

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Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story
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…

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