Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Image Not Available for Newcastle & Hunter River Company's SS GWYDIR wrecked at Norah Head after a collision with another ship in February 1942
Newcastle & Hunter River Company's SS GWYDIR wrecked at Norah Head after a collision with another ship in February 1942
Image Not Available for Newcastle & Hunter River Company's SS GWYDIR wrecked at Norah Head after a collision with another ship in February 1942

Newcastle & Hunter River Company's SS GWYDIR wrecked at Norah Head after a collision with another ship in February 1942

Date1942
Object numberANMS0406[008]
NameNewspaper clipping
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from the Estate of John Watt
HistoryOn 14 February 1942, the Newcastle & Hunter River Company steamship GWYDIR was in a collision with the free French freighter NEO HEBREDAIS just north of Norah Head, NSW. Nine passengers and some of the crew were ordered into the ship's boats and spent fives hours adrift before being picked up. Shortly after the collision, the GWYDIR's master, Captain Tinkler decided to try to get the ship to port but it was taking on too much water. Tinkler therefore decided to beach the vessel, but with the rudder smashed away and one propeller missing the vessel proved uncontrollable and drifted onto a reef on the north side of Norah Head. Attempts to refloat the ship failed. Another Newcastle & Hunter River Steamship Company steamshsip also named GWYDIR was wrecked on the south side of Norah head in 1884.
Image Not Available for GWYDIR Wreck Norah Head
GWYDIR Wreck Norah Head
Terence John Andrew Callen
Before 1976
Image Not Available for Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the PATERSON off Norah Head
Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the PATERSON off Norah Head
1951
Image Not Available for Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the PATERSON near Norah Head
Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the PATERSON near Norah Head
1951
Image Not Available for Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the ALLENWOOD at Norah Head
Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the ALLENWOOD at Norah Head
1951
Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company TSS HUNTER
Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company TSS HUNTER
1907 - 1936
Cargo ship SS KINDUR of Newcastle & Hunter River Steam Navigation Co
Cargo ship SS KINDUR of Newcastle & Hunter River Steam Navigation Co
c 1950
Plate from the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company limited
Plate from the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company limited
Johnson Brothers potteries
1876 - 1956
The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Limited cup
The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Limited cup
Newcastle and Hunter Steamship Company
1891-1956
Postcard depicting passenger ship SS GWYDIR
Postcard depicting passenger ship SS GWYDIR
Samuel J Hood Studio
1899-1953
Image Not Available for SS CITY OF HANKOW, 1915, war loss wrecked 1942, Ellerman Lines
SS CITY OF HANKOW, 1915, war loss wrecked 1942, Ellerman Lines
1915-1942
Image Not Available for Investigation into the sinking of the motor ship GUERNSEY COAST, and loss of one life on the sheamship CATCHER after a collision
Investigation into the sinking of the motor ship GUERNSEY COAST, and loss of one life on the sheamship CATCHER after a collision
1965
Image Not Available for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited pocket guide to the company's services.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited pocket guide to the company's services.
March 1929