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Item: 95124

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1831 29 March

Place: Newcastle

Source: SG

Details: Governor visited the breakwater on a trip to Newcastle and expressed a desire that it could be completed

Item: 96585

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 11 December

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: Legislative Council. Estimates for the year 1853 - � 150 towards the Newcastle Breakwater

Item: 107166

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1840 14 February

Place: Newcastle

Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Burials p2

Details: John Wilson belonging to the Stockade at Newcastle accidentally killed on the works of the breakwater aged 37

Item: 107221

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1841 29 January

Place: Newcastle

Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Burials p5

Details: Edward Nightingale and Joseph Hudson, belonging to the ironed gang, accidentally killed near the breakwater.

Item: 110422

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1855 20 September

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Courier (Hobart)

Details: Breakerwater requiring repair. Also the 'obelisk' on the breakwater which served as a guide for shipping, crumbling

Item: 111329

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1836 16 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: SG

Details: Colonel Barney's report on progress of the Breakwater since taking over in June 1836

Item: 111330

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1934 26 November

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Canberra Times

Details: Steamer 'Iron Monarch' went ashore on the northern breakwater of Newcastle Harbour

Item: 111331

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1855 1 August

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: The Stockade at the breakwater to be abolished. Prisoners to be transferred to Cockatoo Island

Item: 111333

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1854 21 January

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: Archibald Clunes Innes appointed visiting Justice of the Breakwater Stockade

Item: 111335

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1848 26 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: 23 free men engaged to work at the repair of the Newcastle Breakwater under superintendence of M.W. Lewis junior, clerk of works. Damage in several places

Item: 111336

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1845 4 October

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: 1000 pounds voted by Legislative Council towards completing the breakwater at Newcastle. The remaining 100 yds of the whole 2687 ft could be completed in 12 or 15mths if enough men could be kept at work there

Item: 111337

Surname: Newcastle breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1854 1 November

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: 500 pounds voted by Legislative Council for the Newcastle breakwater

Item: 111338

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1881 2 April

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: 130,000 pounds voted in Legislative Council for improvements to Newcastle breakwater and Clarence harbour, Lake Macuarie and Port Jackson

Item: 111339

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1866 30 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Brisbane Courier

Details: Heavy gales damaged the light towers on the Newcastlbe breakwater and rendered it impracticable to exhibit the leading lights for taking the North Harbor.

Item: 111340

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1849 19 September

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: The Breakwater and Nobbys Island appointed places at which male offenders under order or sentence of transportation could be detained and liable to be kept at hard labour

Item: 111341

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1849 24 January

Place: Newcastle

Source: MM

Details: Breaches in the breakwater after southerly gales.Immense stones som of them more than a ton dilodged from the upper part

Item: 111342

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1829 29 October

Place: Newcastle

Source: SG

Details: Article re completing the Breakwater

Item: 112787

Surname: Newcastle breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1835 25 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: SG

Details: Surveyor Nicholson moving from the charge of the western division road branch to Newcastle to superintend progress ofthe breakwater

Item: 132176

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1902 12 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Sydney Mail

Details: 20ft of the breakwater washed away in gale. 40 tons of stones brought from the quarry by railway to the end of the breakwater for repair. Locomotive driver Robert Reid seriously scalded by steam when an engine left the rails causing a block of stone to slip against the cab of the train

Item: 132177

Surname: Newcastle Breakwater

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1947 5 September

Place: Newcastle

Source: SMH

Details: Article about Nobbys and construction of the Breakwater. 'The Foundation stone of the Macquarie pier has disappeared, and it is thought that when a later breakwater was being built the historic stone was dumped into the water, or it may have just fallen into the sea when parts of the breakwater collapsed. It is probably now buried under the present breakwater'

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