Coffs Harbour Region Maritime Index

Compiled by: Michael Rooksberry (2007)

Sources: Coffs Harbour Advocate, North Coast Times and the Raleigh Sun newspapers [available at Coffs Harbour City Library]

An index of maritime activities for the coastal waters of the NSW North Coast and other coastal areas of Australia compiled from the microfilm archives of Coffs Harbour City Library. Key resources used in this index include: Coffs Harbour Advocate (1907-present); North Coast Times (1888-1889), The Raleigh Sun (1898- 1906). This index should be considered a 'work in progress'.

Content arranged alphabetically by name of vessel, then by year of entry.

ABBEY PALMER (barque)

1905

Aug 4 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The barque Abbey Palmer narrowly escaped being dashed on the rocks outside Sydney Heads on Monday night.

ABEL TASMAN (steamer/2,047 tons gross/1,475 tons nett/owned by H. C. Sleigh/commenced trading with Coffs Harbour on June 18, 1933/wrecked on Greymouth Bar, New Zealand about August 1936)

1935

Sept 10 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

Sept 24 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

Oct 1 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

Oct 22 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

Oct 29 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

1948 May 14 pg 1 - Shipping growth at Coffs down through the years.

ABEL TASMAN (timber trade vessel/built in 1957/owned by H. C. Sleigh/length 307 feet/beam 44.7 feet/3,470 tons)

1962

Jan 24 pg 1 - Arrival/departure of...

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Feb 22 pg 1 - Abel Tasman in port.

Mar 22 pg 1 - Article w/pic.

Mar 22 pg 7 - Arrival/departure of...

May 3 pg 1 - Stoppage holds up Abel Tasman.

May 4 pg 1 - A further hold up for Abel Tasman?

May 8 pg 1 - The Abel Tasman in port.

May 10 pg 6 - Arrival/departure of...

May 11 pg 10 - Arrival/departure of...

May 22 pg 1 - Arrival/departure of...

Jun 6 pg 4 - Arrival/departure of...

Jun 19 pg 2 - Arrival/departure of...

Nov 23 pg 2 - Abel Tasman goes out with full loading.

ABERDEEN (White Star line steamer)

1899

Dec 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The war. The N. S. W. troops, per steamer Aberdeen, have joined General Methuen's forces at Modder River.

1902

Apr 4 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Amongst others who intend visiting England during the Coronation festivities is Mr R. M. Dowle, of North Arm, Bellinger River.

1906

Dec 14 pg 7 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. Mr Meares, at Bega the other day.

ACTIVE (ketch)

1898

Jan 21 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The ketch Active foundered at Newcastle yesterday night. She went down without warning, only allowing time for the crew to escape in a boat.

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ADAM AND EVE

1889

Jan 11 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Adam and Eve, John See and forbidden fruit. Our Nambucca steam tug Volunteer.

ADELE (schooner)

1904

Sep 23 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. During this week the entrance to the Bellinger River has been badly shoaled.

ADMIRAL CHASE (freighter)

1948

Oct 12 pg 1 - Tug adrift off coast.

ADVANCE (schooner)

1898

Jan 14 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Intelligence of the foundering of the brig Minora at sea last Saturday week, and the supposed loss of six lives reached Newcastle on Monday afternoon.

ADVANCE (tug)

1906

Jun 1 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. The French barque Vincennes, which is stranded on the ocean beach, Manly.

1909

Jan 1 pg 6 - Shipping disaster. The tug Advance foundered off Newcastle on Christmas night.

AELMA

1902

Jun 6 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping column. During the past week the shipping trade has been unusually lively at the Bellinger Heads.

AFRIC (steamer/White Star Line)

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Oct 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The White Star liner Afric reached Albany today from Liverpool, six of her passengers having smallpox.

Oct 27 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The White Star Line steamer Afric arrived at Adelaide on Sunday afternoon and reported seven additional cases of smallpox during the voyage from Albany.

1906

Feb 2 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. Nowra Co-operative Dairy Company has been advised by cable.

AGNES

1889

Aug 9 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - All the ships that went ashore in Byron Bay in the recent gale are total wrecks except for the Agnes which can be got off.

AGNES IRVING (iron paddle wheeler passenger ship/439 tons/length 203.5 feet/beam 24.5 feet/draft 11.7 feet/built 1862 at Deptford Green (London)/engines 2 cylinder/140 horsepower/named after Clark Irving's eldest daughter/owned by Clarence & Richmond River Steam Navigation Company /wrecked 1pm December 26, 1879 Macleay River bar -Old Entrance)

1962

Oct 5 pg 3 - Article on wreck of the Coraki.

AGNES IRVING

1901

Dec 13 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The barque Royal Tar, of 590 tons, was recently wrecked on the New Zealand coast.

AIRLIE (steamer)

1900

Feb 23 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The steamer Airlie, which recently stranded on Chapman Island reef, off the Queensland coast, has safely arrived at Sydney.

Mar 2 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. While the E. and A. Company's steamer Airlie was in Japanese waters recently, a terrific storm

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AJAX (pilot steamer)

1905

Apr 21 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Mr H. G. Nash, second officer of the pilot steamer Ajax, has been appointed pilot at the Nambucca River.

AJAX (turret ship)

1889

Sep 6 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - A serious accident occurred on board the turret ship Ajax which recently took part in naval manoeuvres.

ALBANY (steamer)

1888

Dec 7 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - The engine burst on board the steamer Albany at Hainlen, killing two firemen and fatally injuring a third and scalding two others. [TBC - WASN'T THERE ANOTHER SNIPPET?]

1905

Mar 10 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A large punt being towed from Brisbane to Sydney by the steamer Albany foundered off Norah Head.

Mar 31 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Wreck at Nambucca Heads. Our correspondent reports that the s. s. Albany.

Apr 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Our correspondent reports that the wrecked steamer Albany only lasted one week in view.

Apr 7 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Owing to the heavy gale on the coast the wrecked steamer Albany has completely broken up.

Apr 14 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Albany wreck. An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the steamer Albany.

Apr 28 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Albany's cargo. The Hon. E. Pery, P.M. had before him at Macksville.

Jun 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The s. s. Federal, which has been acting as salvage steamer at the wreck of the Albany for some weeks.

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Nov 17 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. A sensation was caused here on Friday.

1906

Mar 23 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. Of the eight vessels wrecked on the New South Wales coast last year no less than three met their fate near the Bellinger River.

ALBATROSS (trawler owned by the Northern Pearling Company)

1948

Jun 11 pg 1 - Trawlers to leave today for Thursday Island.

Jun 18 pg 6 - Arrival/departure of...

ALBERT VIGOR (steamer)

1889

Feb 15 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The steamer Albert Vigor was burned in Beneley Harbour, Victoria. The vessel sank in four fathoms. The crew were saved.

ALCIDES (Government dredge)

1903

Jun 5 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The Government dredge Alcides foundered at the Tweed Heads.

ALEDA

1904

Dec 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. Arrival/departure of...

ALERT (tug)

1899

Aug 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The new drogher Bowra arrived a fortnight ago.

Nov 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Farewells at the Heads. On Tuesday night at Barrett's Ocean View Hotel, Bellinger Heads, a banquet was tendered to Captain J. H. Percival of the tug Alert.

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Nov 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The tug Thistle returned from Sydney on Sunday last.

1901

Feb 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Loss of the Alert. On Tuesday last the steamer Alert, used for towing purposes, left the Bellinger for the Nambucca River.

Mar 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steam tug Alert, which foundered off Nambucca Heads last week, was insured in the South British Insurance Co.

Mar 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. In Sydney, the captain of the Alert, steamer, which recently foundered off Nambucca Heads, was fined £20 for not carrying a boat on his vessel.

Nov 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. It is reported a steam- tug named the Alert is to be sent to the Bellinger River.

Dec 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steam-tug Alert, for the Bellinger River, was reported as passing north from Sydney on Saturday last.

1902

Jan 10 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The new year has again brought the grim reaper death amongst us.

Jan 17 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Arrival/departure of...

Jul 11 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Tenders are now invited for the erection of an Anglican Church.

1903

May 1 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. On Wednesday the members were taken on the tug Alert.

Jul 24 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Some three or four weeks back it leaked out that the dredge Alesus was to be removed to the Macleay.

1904

Aug 19 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. A serious mishap to the tug Alert occurred a fortnight ago.

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Sep 2 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. There is not much prospect of saving the subsidised steam-tug Alert that is stranded at the entrance to the Nambucca.

Sep 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The wreck of the tug Alert has been abandoned by the underwriters.

1905

Jun 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The s. s. Federal, which has been acting as salvage steamer at the wreck of the Albany for some weeks.

Jun 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Mr J. Flynn, engineer of the tug "Alert," had a narrow escape.

ALESUS (dredge)

1898

May 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Heavy gale causes considerable damage. The Alesus broke from her moorings and dragged her anchors for one hundred yards.

1899

Sep 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Head news. The N. C. S. N. Co. are now running the s. s. Euroka here direct to and from Sydney and up the river to Macksville.

Dec 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The dredge Alesus has resumed work at the cutting near Stewart's Island.

1900

Jan 19 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The sum of £5 5s was recently collected on the dredge Alesus.

Jul 6 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - District wants column. The Works Department states that the work applied for can be taken in hand in August when the dredge Alesus will have completed the work upon which she is presently engaged.

Dec 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The dredge Alesus has at long last commenced the cutting into Warrell Creek.

1901

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Jan 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The dredge Alesus has not made much impression yet.

1902

Feb 21 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Preparations for a bazaar in aid of the Presbyterian Church have been commenced.

Mar 14 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. During last year there were only ten shipping disasters in New South Wales including the following:- Alert, steam-tug, value £1600, stranded Nambucca River; Thistle, steam-tug, value £2250, stranded Nambucca river and abandoned, but afterwards recovered; Wyong, steam-tug, value £1400, propeller became disconnected, and vessel drifted on rocks at Solitary Island, and became a total wreck.

Nov 14 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Harbour works. In the annual report of the Public Works Department.

1903

Apr 10 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The new schooner Alpha crossed the bar on her maiden trip on Tuesday.

Jun 12 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The second eldest son of Mr A. C. Anderson, mate of the dredge Alesus, died last Monday morning at 4 o'clock, rather suddenly.

Jul 10 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Bowra notes column. Word was received here on Saturday. Alesus.

Jul 24 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Some three or four weeks back it leaked out that the dredge Alesus was to removed to the Macleay.

Jul 24 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Bowra notes column. The dredge Alesus has gone to the Macleay.

1904

Apr 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. A rise in the Macleay River flooded the dock, in which the dredge Alesus was undergoing repairs, and the dredge filled and sank.

May 20 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The work of overhauling and repairing the dredge Alesus is being pushed forward.

Dec 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. We are frequently reminded of late of the urgent necessity of a dredge near the Heads.

1905

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Jan 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - A new dredge. The sand pump dredge Antleon has proved.

ALEXA (barquentine)

1905

Mar 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A barquentine, supposed to be the Alexa, from Adelaide, went ashore at Farewell Spit, New Zealand.

ALFRED FENNING (ketch)

1900

Nov 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. While coming down the Manning river last week, in tow of a tug, the ketch Alfred Fenning struck a bridge and sunk.

ALICE (launch)

1907

Apr 9 pg 2 - Collision at Launceston between the steamer Togo and the launch Alice. Ten of the 16 persons on the latter were drowned.

ALICE (schooner)

1905

Mar 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A disastrous cyclone has occurred in West Australia.

ALICE MAY (steam lighter)

1904

Oct 14 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The School of Arts annual ball took place last Friday night.

Oct 28 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The steam punt Alice May, which recently left the Nambucca.

ALLOWRIE (Illawarra trader)

1907

Jul 2 pg 2 - Allowrie (Illawarra trader) sighted a ketch, believed to be the Arab, sunk (with only her mast showing) off Botany.

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ALMA DOEPEL

1903

Oct 16 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Alma Doepel. Saturday last was a busy day in Bellingen.

Oct 30 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. We have had an opportunity of inspecting a number of photographs taken by Mr Vaughan, of Fernmount.

Nov 20 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The rigging and fitting of Mr F. Doepel's new three-masted foretopsail schooner Alma Doepel has been completed.

Dec 25 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Mr F. Doepel was a passenger by his new schooner Alma Doepel, on her maiden trip to Sydney.

Mar 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Smart work. Mr F. Doepel, of Bellingen, may well feel proud of his latest work. Alma Doepel. [TBC - CK YEAR 1904?]

1904

Sep 30 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Arrival/departure of...

1905

Sep 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. A seaman named Smith, who acted as cook on the Alma Doepel, was drowned in Sydney Harbour last week.

1950

Jan 31 pg 3 - Shipping epic of the 1900s. Alma Doepel (sailing vessel built at Bellingen in 1903 by Fred Doepel. A public holiday was observed at Bellingen for the launching and, when she proceeded down the river, children at Fernmount and Raleigh were given a holiday so that they could see her pass.).

ALPHA

1903

Mar 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The launching of Mr J. Eichman's new schooner was successfully accomplished at noon last Monday. Alpha (GET DETAILS FROM COPY)

Apr 10 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The new schooner Alpha crossed the bar on her maiden trip on Tuesday.

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Dec 4 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bowra complaint. In reading your last issue I was surprised.

1961

Jun 9 pg 11 - Pic w/caption (circa early 1900s).

AMY (brig)

1898

Feb 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - During a very heavy gale last Saturday to the south, the brig Amy was totally wrecked about 1½ miles from Bulli Jetty; the crew of eight were drowned.

ANGSBURY

1899

Jul 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A seaman named Kelly fell 20 feet down the hold of the Angsbury on Tuesday night and was killed.

ANNANDALE (wood auxiliary ketch/built in 1899 by J. Sullivan, Tomakin, NSW for Allen Taylor/108 tons/length 92.3 feet/beam 24 feet/draft 6.7 feet/two masts/a very early motor vessel with an oil engine/50 horsepower/lost off Smoky Cape on March 12, 1907)

1899

May 19 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - A new trading vessel. Changes are gradually being made in the method of dealing with the trade of the northern rivers of the colony, and the changes are for the better.

1903

Mar 27 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. We understand Allen Taylor and Co. are sending two additional vessels - Annandale and Australia - to the Bellinger.

ANNERLEY (steamer)

1900

Jun 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steamer Annerley encountered a gale off the southern coast of this colony, and lost 216 head out of 380 cattle on board.

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ANSOR (wheat ship)

1903

Mar 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. All hope is abandoned of the missing wheat ship Ansor, from New York to Sydney. [TBC - CK NAME - COULD BE AUSGAR?]

ANTILLON (steamer)

1901

Mar 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A sailor on the steamer Antillon has died from the plague.

ANTLEON (dredge/built at the Clyde in Scotland/length 165 feet/beam 35 feet/loaded draft 5 feet/twin screws/650 indicated horsepower/9½ knots loaded and 10¼ light)

1898

Aug 12 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - The Minister for Works has received from the Acting Agent-General a cable that the twin-screw sand pump dredge ordered from W. Simons and Co was launched on July 29.

Dec 9 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. An effort is to be made to have the new bar dredge, Antleon sent to the Bellinger Heads.

Dec 9 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The Macleay Chronicle says:- "We understand there is every probability as soon as possible after she has been docked and cleaned, of the Antleon being despatched to the Macleay to improve the bar there."

Dec 9 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The new bar suction dredge Antleon, built at the Cyde, in Scotland, for the New South Wales Government, arrived in Sydney Harbour last week from Glasgow.

Dec 16 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - A public meeting will be held in Bellingen School of Arts on Tuesday evening at eight o'clock to urge the government to make a trial with the new dredge Antleon on the Bellinger bar.

Dec 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The new dredge. A public meeting was called for Tuesday night, in Bellingen School of Arts, to arrange for representing to the authorities the advisability of sending the new bar dredge Antleon to the Bellinger.

Dec 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Macleay Chronicle says:- "Owing to the prevalence of north-easters, the bar has shoaled up considerably at the new entrance."

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1899

Jan 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The harbour works. The monthly meeting of the Bellinger River Union lapsed on Friday night, December 30, there not being a sufficient number of members present to form a quorum.

Jan 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Bellinger Harbour improvements.

Mar 24 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. The new bar dredge Antleon arrived in the Macleay on Wednesday last.

Apr 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon came into Kempsey last Thursday and stopped till Tuesday.

May 19 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The new dredge Antleon is doing good work at the Macleay.

Sep 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Head news. The N. C. S. N. Co. are now running the s. s. Euroka here direct to and from Sydney and up the river to Macksville.

Nov 10 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The new dredge Antleon, which first went to the Macleay, has been sent from Newcastle to the Richmond River.

1900

Apr 20 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The Clarence bar is again shoaling, the depth now being 14 feet at high water.

Nov 16 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The bar dredge Antleon has finished work on the Macleay bar.

1901

Apr 19 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Owing to the good work done by the large dredge Antleon there is now a foot greater depth of water on the Port Macquarie bar.

Jun 28 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The bar. On Sunday last, the schooner Violet Doepel attempted to cross inwards over the Bellinger bar, but, owing to the wind failing, she went on the spit, but has since been floated.

Jul 5 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Important meetings. A public meeting was held at Bellinger Heads School of Arts on Monday night, Mr Thomas Hamilton in the chair.

Jul 19 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads. Arrival/departure of...

Coffs Harbour Region Maritime Index Page 14 of 254 © Michael Rooksberry 2007 Aug 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The Bellinger bar has again shoaled to about five feet at high water, causing great inconvenience to the shipping trade.

Aug 16 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - News item. While on her way to Sydney last week for repairs, the dredge Antleon had to put back to Port Macquarie, owing to the heavy weather.

Aug 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A large deputation was introduced to the Minister for Lands yesterday by Mr Briner.

Aug 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - News item. The dredge Antleon arrived on the Clarence last Sunday, and was to commence work immediately.

Sep 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - News item. The Antleon has already improved the Clarence entrance so much that the steamer Otway crossed in at dead low water.

Sep 13 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The condition of the entrance to the Bellinger has suddenly improved, 8 feet on the bar at high water being reported.

Sep 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Captain R. W. Barton is now master of the dredge Antleon, with a salary of £252.

Sep 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon was being exhibited on the Clarence recently.

Sep 27 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Owing to the good work done by the dredge Antleon the Clarence bar now carries 15 feet of water.

Oct 4 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. A meeting of the Bellinger Heads Progress Committee was held in the School of Arts on September 25.

Oct 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. The Government promise that the Antleon should return again this week is not yet fulfilled, and at present does not seem much likelihood of it being fulfilled.

Oct 25 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Parliamentary column. In the Assembly recently the following Ministerial replies were given to questions tabled by the member for Raleigh.

Nov 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - District wants column. Mr Briner, M.P., has been officially informed.

Nov 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Union column. The quarterly meeting of members of this Union was held at the School of Arts, Bellingen.

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Nov 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. We hear the dredge Antleon will probably come to the Bellinger next spring tides.

Dec 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Union column. A meeting of members of the Bellinger River Union was held on Friday evening last.

Dec 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - News item. On the Manning River the dredge Antleon, as soon as she has a load of sand, proceeds up the river to unload it.

Dec 13 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The dredge Antleon has been sent to the Manning River.

1902

Jan 17 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - General news column. The dredge Antleon is to run an excursion trip on the Manning, in aid of a church fund.

Feb 14 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon has gone to Sydney from the Manning. Feb 14 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - General news column. The excursion by the dredge Antleon, on the Manning, realised £30 for the Church of England.

Mar 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Our harbours. On Friday last during an interview with Mr Keele.

Mar 28 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. The appended official letter from the Public Works Department has been received by the member for Raleigh.

Apr 4 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Good news!

Apr 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - District wants column. The member for Raleigh has been officially informed.

Apr 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Entrance column. On Tuesday last we received a telegram from Mr G. S. Briner, member for Raleigh.

Apr 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon has been docked in Sydney owing to some defect in the machinery.

Apr 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Editorial. We now have information from a thoroughly reliable source that some time back.

Apr 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - That dredge. The public meeting held on Saturday last, in Bellingen.

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Apr 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Entrance column. On Saturday afternoon last a public meeting was held in the School of Arts, Bellingen.

Apr 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. Mr. Keele, the Inspector of Harbours and Rivers, visited here a few days since.

May 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Owing to a heavy sea along the coast last week the dredge Antleon was prevented from working at the Bellinger entrance for several days.

May 9 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Entrance. We are informed that the channel at the Bellinger River entrance has shifted about 100 yards northward.

May 16 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Recently an exceedingly enjoyable social gathering was held at Bellinger Heads.

May 16 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. We regret to learn that, owing to the channel having shifted at the Bellinger Heads, the dredge Antleon is unable to do any effective work.

May 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The steamers Baden Powell and Defender were barbound for a week lately owing to a shoal patch close alongside the breakwater.

May 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping Union column. The meeting convened for Saturday evening last.

May 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon is again at work on the Clarence bar.

Jun 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon has done splendid work at the Clarence River entrance, the depth of the water on the bar now being reported as 16ft.

Jun 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The dredge Antleon is now working at the Manning River entrance.

Aug 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Mr J. Wright's new steamer Bellinger, which is to trade to this river under the flag of Messrs. A. Taylor and Co.

Nov 21 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Macleay River column. the following appears in the Public Works Department's report for the year ended June 30, 1901.

1903

May 15 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The dredge Antleon recently proceeded to Byron Bay to deepen the water at the end of the jetty.

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1904

Jun 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. In view of the fact that the entrance to the Bellinger was never in better condition.

Oct 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Harbour works. The dredge Beta, on the Bellinger, would be laid up.

Nov 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Harbors and rivers. Mr G. S. Briner, M. P., wired on Tuesday last that the dredge Beta will not cease work.

1905

Aug 18 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The Board of Engineers have submitted their report on northern river entrances.

Oct 6 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Mr Briner, M. L. A., has asked the Minister last week to send the dredge Antleon to the Bellinger.

Oct 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger entrance. The Minister for Works informed Mr Briner, M. P., as follows:-.

Nov 17 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger entrance. Mr Briner asked the Secretary for Public Works.

1906

Feb 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Dredge Antleon. Mr E. Arnold, secretary of the Bellinger Heads Progress Association, has received the following communication.

Mar 23 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - News item. The sand pump Antleon has dredged out the Clarence bar to a depth of 14 feet at low water.

Apr 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The bar continues shallow and requires the attention.

Jul 6 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. There is proposed before the Works Department in regard to the dredge Jupiter.

Oct 5 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Accident to the Antleon. The Antleon, at Laurieton, after taking out four or five loads.

1907

Jul 2 pg 2 - Only 18 inches of water on the Bellinger bar.

Jul 23 pg 2 - The Antleon arrives at the Clarence River heads.

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1907

Jul 2 pg 2 - Allowrie (Illawarra trader) sighted a ketch, believed to be the Arab, sunk (with only her mast showing) off Botany.

ARACINA (barque)

1898

Feb 18 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The barque Aracina, which left Newcastle on January 29 for San Diego with a cargo of coal, encountered a terrific gale yesterday week, sprung a leak, and foundered.

ARAMAC (steamer)

1898

Jul 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Captain Armstrong, of the steamer Aramac, was found dead in his cabin while the vessel was between Wollongong and Bulli.

1900

Jan 5 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steamer Aramac arrived at Brisbane from Sydney on Friday and reported that three miles north of Smoky Cape, G. Taylor, a passenger, jumped overboard.

1904

Mar 18 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The steamer Aramac, while on the voyage from Brisbane to Cooktown, foundered at sea.

Mar 18 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Later news shows that the steamer Aramac was driven out of her course and struck on Breaksea Spit.

Mar 18 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. There is still one of the Aramac's boats missing.

Apr 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Captain Butcher has been exonerated for the wreck of the steamer Aramac.

Mar 18 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The sixth missing boat of the steamer Aramac has been picked up off Cape Capricorn.

ARAWATTA (steamer)

1900

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Oct 5 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The steamer Arawatta recently steamed from Brisbane to Sydney in 30 hours or 16 knots an hour.

ARCADIA (mail steamer)

1889

Nov 1 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Taylor the absconding accountant is a passenger per Arcadia which arrived at Melbourne yesterday.

Dec 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Captain Logan, of the Arcadia, reports seeing a large steamer sunk near Albany, on east side of White Top Rocks.

1901

May 31 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Another case of small-pox has been discovered, on the mail steamer Arcadia; and what is believed to be a case of plague on the war-ship Karrakatta.

ARCHIMEDES (dredge)

1903

Sep 4 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Dredge slaughter. In the Assembly the member for Raleigh asked the Minister for Works.

ARGUS (steamer)

1903

Aug 7 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The steamers Mildura and Argus collided in Sydney harbour.

ARIADNE (yacht)

1902

Jan 31 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The Ariadne yacht wrecking case has concluded.

ARIEL (steam launch)

1889

Sep 13 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Nambucca River Regatta.

ARMENIAN (troopship)

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Mar 23 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The Government has received a cable that the troopships Manhattan, Port Victoria, Manchester and Armenian, with accommodation for 2,664 men and 2,000 horses, will arrive in Sydney about April.

May 4 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Twenty stowaways were landed from the troopship Armenian at Albany.

AROONA (owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company)

1948

Aug 24 pg 1 - Death at sea.

ARTISAN (barque)

1901

Apr 26 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The barque Artisan, bound from Marseilles to Newcastle, has been stranded at Cape Patterson on the Victorian coast. All hands were saved.

ASAMA MARU (Japanese vessel/4,891 tons gross and 3,075 tons nett)

1948

May 14 pg 1 - Shipping growth at Coffs down through the years. On December 14, 1931 the Asama Maru became the first vessel to convey hardwood timber directly from Coffs Harbour to Hong Kong).

ASLOUN (steamer)

1899

Oct 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. It is understood that the owners of the Asloun will claim £50,000 as salvage in connection with the towing of the Waikato to port.

Oct 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The owners of the steamer Asloun claim £50,000 salvage for towing the Waikato over 3,000 miles.

1900

Mar 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - In the salvage claim by owners of the steamer Asloun, which towed the disabled steamer Waikato into Fremantle, £16,500 has been awarded.

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1898

Apr 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Marine Board exonerate the captain and owners of the abandoned barque Atacama.

ATHENA (tug- steam tender)

1889

Aug 23 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The tug Athena, the steam tender to the dredge Titan, made her first and unexpected appearance at the Fernmount wharf.

Sep 27 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The Caliston (lighter draught tug) is to take the place of the Athena as attendant to the Titan (drudge). The Caliston with a coal punt is being conveyed to the Bellinger by the Thetis.

ATLANTIAN (troopship)

1900

Mar 16 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. When the troopship Atlantian, with the Bushmen's Contingent, arrived at Hobart, there was a most enthusiastic demonstration.

AUGUSTA (composite steamer/built 1889 in Sydney for Quigley & Kelly/183 tons gross/length 109.5 feet/beam 22.7 feet/draft 9.5 feet/ sold in 1905 to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company and cut down to a lighter in Sydney in 1921/engines transferred to the Nambucca built the following year)

1900

May 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Captain Kirkwood told the Tweed Advocate "That after the Augusta had finished discharging her cargo for the day, the steamer, as per plague regulations, put out to midstream for the night.

Jul 6 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steamer Augusta, which had crossed the Tweed bar outwards, was immediately towed back into the river, owing to her propellor being disabled.

1905

Dec 15 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. It was officially announced last Friday that the North Coast Co. has purchased the steamers Augusta and Duranbah for the rivers trade.

1906

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Feb 9 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. At the annual meeting of shareholders of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, held in Sydney a few days ago.

1907

Apr 9 pg 2 - The Nerong replaces the Augusta on the Brisbane-Northern Rivers trade.

AURANIA (troopship)

1902

May 16 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Returning troops. F. Lassiter and Co., of Sydney, are in receipt of the following cablegram from Colonel Lassiter.

May 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Returning troops. Today over 1200 officers and men, who have been engaged in active service in South Africa, will arrive in Sydney by the troopship Aurania.

AURORA (ketch/92 tons)

1898

Nov 11 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. On Saturday night the ketch Aurora, 92 tons, owned by Captain Christiansen, of Balmain, collided with Messrs. Brown's tug, Champion, near Cape Three Points, halfway between Sydney and Newcastle. The Aurora was built at Berinagui about three months ago for about £1,600.

AUSGAR (steamer)

1903

Jan 30 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The steamer Ausgar, bound from New York to Sydney, is long overdue. [TBC - CK NAME - COULD BE ANSOR?]

AUSTRALIA (schooner)

1900

Oct 26 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Last week the schooner Australia, timber-laden, from the Bellinger River, was reported to be in a leaky condition, off Smoky Cape.

1903

Coffs Harbour Region Maritime Index Page 23 of 254 © Michael Rooksberry 2007 Mar 27 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. We understand Allen Taylor and Co. are sending two additional vessels - Annandale and Australia - to the Bellinger.

1904

Jun 24 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The P. and O. Co.'s mail steamer Australia, a vessel of nearly 7000 tons, inbound from London, has been wrecked off Port Phillip Heads.

Jun 24 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The officers and crew have been taken off the wrecked steamer Australia.

Jul 1 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. At the inquiry into the loss of the steamer Australia.

Jul 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The wrecked schooner Australia has been re-floated at the Manning.

Jul 22 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. A fire broke out on the wrecked steamer Australia, destroying all the wood-work.

Oct 14 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. The P. and O. Co.'s steamer Australia, wrecked at Port Phillip Heads, cost from £200,000 to £250,000.

Oct 28 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The purchasers of the wreck of the P. and O. Co's steamer Australia.

1906

Jan 19 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The P. and O. steamer Australia, which was wrecked on June 22, 1904, still rests on the Corsair Rock of Point Nepean (Vic.).

Nov 23 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The owners of the steamer Australia hope to save about 600 tons of cargo.

Dec 7 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steamer Australia has been finally abandoned.

Dec 7 pg 8 - The Raleigh Sun - Miscellaneous column. All hope of refloating the steamer Australia has been abandoned.

AUSTRALIAN (iron steam ship/built in 1879 at Dundee for G. W. Nicoll/352 tons gross/length 160.3 feet/beam 22.5 feet/draft 10.5 feet/fo'c'sle 21 feet/poop 61 feet/sold in 1879 to Nicoll Bros./ sold in 1880 to J. See/sold December 1891 to North Coast Steam Navigation Company/sold February 1902 to Launceston/wrecked on Warding Island, South Australia on May 8, 1912)

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1898

Sep 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The Euroka has been taking maize away to Trial Bay during the week for transhipment to Sydney by the Australian.

1899

Feb 24 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - N. C. S. N. Coy changes. A few changes are taking place in the commands of the North Coast S. N. Company's vessels.

Sep 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. On the arrival of the steamer Australian at Albany from Adelaide yesterday a Catholic priest was arrested on board, on a provisional warrant charging him with indecently assaulting a girl at Nepuka (Fiji).

Sep 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. An extensive shipment of compressed fodder and preserved meats is leaving Melbourne for South Africa by the steamer Australian.

1902

Jan 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The steamer Australian, while on the voyage from the Clarence to Sydney, had a narrow escape from foundering.

Aug 1 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The report of the North Coast S. N. Co. for the half-year ended June 30 shows profits total £5506.

AVON (iron steam ship/built in November 1867 in Melbourne/115 tons/length 100.3 feet/beam 18.2 feet/draft 6.8 feet/two diag Osc engine 30 horsepower/two masts/to J. See in 1888/wrecked on the Bellinger River on June 3, 1891)

1888

Dec 7 pg 1- The North Coast Times - Notice to shippers from John See & Company regarding the purchase of the light craft paddle steamer Avon to run to Sydney twice a week in conjunction with the SS Wellington (ad repeated in each issue for months).

Dec 7 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of: the Avon on the Bellinger River.

Dec 14 pg 1 - The North Coast Times -(Advertisement - Notice to maize shippers). We have purchased the light draft paddle steamer Avon to trade between the Bellinger and Port Macquarie. John See & Company.

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Dec 21 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Dec 28 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Dec 28 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Stolen waters are sweet.

1889

Jan 4 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 11 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 11 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The Wesleyan picnic.

Jan 18 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 25 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 1 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 8 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 15 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 22 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 22 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - The Sydney passenger service.

Mar 27 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Apr 5 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 3 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 10 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 17 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 24 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 31 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jun 7 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

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Jul 19 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 2 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 9 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 16 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 16 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The SS Avon has gone to Sydney to get her leaky boiler put in order. Her place has been taken by the SS Wellington.

Sep 6 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Bellinger River Progress Association report.

AV1379 (Australian army vessel)

1950

Feb 17 pg 3 - Defence ships in harbour.

AWAUNI (Sydney racing yacht)

1907

May 7 pg 4 - The Sayonara Cup yacht race.

AWHINA (tug)

1898

Jul 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Vessels in trouble.

BABINDA

1962

May 10 pg 6 - Arrival/departure of...

May 11 pg 1 - Arrival/departure of...

May 11 pg 10 - Shipping activities at the port.

Jun 19 pg 1 - (South Pacific Shipping Company)

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BADEN POWELL (steamer)

1900

Jun 22 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The new vessel recently launched from Mr E. Davis' slip for Mr Buckle has been re-christened Baden Powell by the owner.

Aug 3 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. A Sydney correspondent informs us that Mr F. Buckle is having his new steamer Baden Powell fitted up on quite up-to-date lines, including the electric light and good passenger accommodation.

1901

Feb 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping Union column. Mr Buckle had told him he had a steamer ready for the trade.

Mar 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Buckle's new steamer. Writing on the 23rd instant, Mr F. Buckle states that part of the new machinery for his steamer has arrived at Melbourne and will soon be fitted to the Baden-Powell.

May 24 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. We learn from a private letter that Mr F. Buckle expects to have the Baden-Powell, steamer, ready for the Bellinger trades about the middle of June.

Aug 2 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. We hear that Mr Buckle's new steamer Baden-Powell has been completed, and recently ran a successful trip in Sydney harbour.

Sep 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping trade column. The following letter has been received by Mr E. Chidley from Mr F. Buckle, of Sydney.

1902

Jan 31 pg 4 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping Union column. A meeting of the district Shipping Union was held in the School of Arts, Bellingen.

Apr 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. I regret to have to chronicle the death of Mrs G. H. Beilby, wife of Pilot boatsman G. H. Beilby.

May 9 pg 1 - The Raleigh Sun - Advertisement for the Baden Powell. (First appearance of this ad)

Coffs Harbour Region Maritime Index Page 28 of 254 © Michael Rooksberry 2007 May 16 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. On her first trip from the Nambucca River Mr Buckle's new steamer Baden-Powell took 1250 bags maize, 65 pigs, and other cargo for Sydney.

May 23 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. The steamers Baden Powell and Defender were barbound for a week lately owing to a shoal patch close alongside the breakwater.

Aug 1 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. Arrival/departure of...

1903

Jan 30 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. Mr J. Frost, of the firm of Woodes, Rodgers and Frost.

Feb 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca Heads column. In this issue particulars are advertised.

Nov 20 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. During the passage of the steamer Baden-Powell to Sydney from Nambucca.

1904

Feb 26 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Taylor's Arm column. Whatever may be the cause or causes.

Mar 18 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca trade. Well, it has been reported by Mr McGregor.

Mar 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - In reply. Kindly allow me space in your columns.

Mar 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Nambucca trade. I am afraid he has got the Baden-Powell on the brain.

Apr 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Another view. C. Johnson, of Taylor's Arm, writes.

Aug 19 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. A serious mishap to the tug Alert occurred a fortnight ago.

BALDINA (owned by the American Trading Company Ltd/4,333 tons gross and 2,591 tons nett)

1948

May 14 pg 1 - Shipping growth at Coffs down through the years. The SS Baldina made two trips each way from Coffs to China up to August 1933).

BALMAIN (steam collier/350 tons)

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1900

Jan 5 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Late on Thursday night last a fire broke out on the steam collier Balmain, 350 tons, lying at Mort's Dock, Sydney.

BANGALOW (steel steam ship built 1939 in Glasgow for North Coast Steam Navigation Company/648 tons gross/length 162 feet/beam 36.2 feet/draft 9 feet/fo'c'sle 31 feet/poop 31 feet/48 horsepower/named for a town six miles from Byron Bay/sold to Manners in 1955 and renamed Cambay Breeze/renamed Lucky Chen in 1957/still trading from Singapore in late 1976)

1948

Apr 13 pg 1 - Big development in Coffs shipping.

Apr 30 pg 1 - Development of Coffs port facilities.

May 14 pg 1 - Arrival/departure of...

Nov 16 pg 1 - More timber being shipped from Coffs.

BARCOO (steamer)

1898

Jul 8 pg 3 - The Raleigh Sun - The steamer Barcoo, which left Melbourne for Sydney on June 28, took away 132 passengers in the saloon and 125 in the steerage, the fare for the steerage being only 5s.

1903

Dec 4 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. Sydney Truth published a sensational article about a hole in the bottom of the Queensland mail and passenger steamer Barcoo.

BARRANGARRY

1888

Dec 7 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

1889

Feb 1 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Feb 15 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Feb 22 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

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Jul 19 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 16 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 30 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Sep 13 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Oct 11 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Nov 1 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Nov 8 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

BASSOCKBURN

1889

Aug 9 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The master of the schooner Hastings reports that the residents of the bay showed great bravery and kindness on the occasion of the wreck.

BEGA

1905

Jan 13 pg 6 - The Raleigh Sun - Interesting items column. Mr Clinton, the I. S. N. Co.'s agent at Nelligen. s. s. Bega.

1906

Sep 28 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The barquentine Kongsbyrd, in tow, collided with the steamer Bega in Wollongong Harbour.

1908

Apr 14 pg 3 - Wreck of the Bega.

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May 19 pg 3 - The Bega mystery.

BELLINGER (1) (iron steam ship/built in 1884 at Paisley for G. W. Nicoll/225 tons/length 125 feet/beam 22.1 feet/draft 8.7 feet/two masts/compound 45 horsepower/sold to Victoria in 1887/returned the same year to B. B. Nicoll/then to Hobart in 1890)

1888

Dec 7 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Dec 14 pg 4 - The North Coast Times - Notice of reduction of freight. Return freight from Sydney by the ketch Bellinger will be reduced to 10 shillings per ton. F. Doepel, Boat Harbour.

Dec 21 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Dec 28 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

1889

Jan 4 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 11 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 18 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 25 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jan 25 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - (Funeral notice) GREENMAN - At Sydney on the 13th inst. John Greenman, late Capt. of the ketch Bellinger.

Mar 1 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Mar 15 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - It is reported by the master of the ketch Bellinger on arrival on the 13th Inst. It appears that when about four miles south of the Bellinger bar one of the crew was engaged among the rigging when one of the sails gave way knocking him clear of the vessel into the sea. Every effort was made to recover the poor fellow but without avail.

May 3 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 10 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

May 17 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

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Jun 28 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jul 19 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Jul 26 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The ketch Bellinger , on her last trip from Sydney, brought two punt loads of furniture for Mr F. B. Trett C.P.S.

Aug 30 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - The proprietors of the schooner Bellinger announce by advertisement that the vessel has undergone a complete overhaul.

Aug 30 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Aug 30 pg 3 - The North Coast Times - Advertisement regarding the overhaul of the Bellinger.

Sep 6 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

Sep 13 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

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Nov 15 pg 2 - The North Coast Times - Arrival/departure of...

1899

Oct 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Fernmount band celebrates its anniversary tomorrow by an excursion to the North Beach.

BELLINGER (2) (wooden steam ship/length 136 feet/beam 29 feet/draft 6.6 feet/141 tons/built of hardwood/copper-fastened throughout/frame wholly

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1902

Jun 13 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Shipping column. One day last week no less than 9 feet of water was reported on the Bellingen bar.

Jul 11 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. A Bellinger Heads correspondent states that the month of June has been a busy on as regards shipping.

Jun 27 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The new steamer Bellinger, built for Messrs. A. Taylor and Co. will be ready for the Bellinger River trade early next month.

Jul 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. The new steamer Bellinger, intended for the trade between this river and Sydney.

Aug 1 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Mr J. Wright's new steamer Bellinger, which is to trade to this river under the flag of Messrs. A. Taylor and Co.

Aug 8 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - New steamer. The new steamer Bellinger, which runs between Sydney and the Bellinger.

Aug 15 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - The New Steamer. A correspondent of the Manning Times reports that on August 2 the two locally built steamers Commonwealth and Bellinger "left Cape Hawke together for Sydney".

Aug 22 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. Messrs. Allen Taylor and Co.'s new steamer Bellinger, after laying in Trial Bay.

Aug 22 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Enterprising firm. Referring to Messrs. A. Taylor and Co.'s new steamer Bellinger, which arrived at the Bellinger Heads on Sunday morning last.

Aug 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Bellinger Heads column. Whilst Mrs A. Lindeman was attending to a patient at Ellis' saw mill about 12 o'clock on Tuesday night.

Aug 29 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Arrival/departure of...

Aug 29 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. That the new steamer Bellinger is a good cargo boat is shown by the fact that on Thursday of last week she took to Sydney.

Coffs Harbour Region Maritime Index Page 34 of 254 © Michael Rooksberry 2007 Sep 5 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The steamer Defender left the Bellinger yesterday week.

Sep 12 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Brief mention column. Arrival/departure of...

1903

Apr 17 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The steamer Bellinger, belonging to Allen Taylor and Company's line, arrived in Sydney on Monday week.

Jun 5 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The North Coast Co.'s steamer Oakland foundered off Cabbage-tree Island at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning last.

Jun 5 pg 5 - The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. The survivors from the Oakland steamer, were clinging to a water-logged boat when the captain of the steamer Bellinger rescued them.

Jun 19 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The captain of the steamer Bellinger reports passing a sunken vessel about seven miles from Red Head.

Jul 10 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. The directors of the North Coast Co. have presented Captain Tanglin, of the steamer Bellinger, with a gold watch.

Jul 17 pg 5 -The Raleigh Sun - Echoes column. At the last meeting of the Shipwreck Relief Society, in Sydney.

BEN BOLT (length 105 feet/beam 22.6 feet/draft 5.9 feet/carry 40 tons on a 5 foot draft/compound surface condensing engines of 30 horsepower/designed and built under the supervision of Mr W. J. Peat at the Raleigh shipyard)

1907

Apr 23 pg 3 - Ben Bolt launched at Raleigh shipyard.

BENNELONG (ferry)

1903

Sep 25 pg 2 - The Raleigh Sun - Sunlight flashes column. Another collision occurred off Dawe's Point, between the steamer Ceagle and the ferry boat Bennelong.

BERGALIA

1955

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BERTHA