The available modern technology and the extensive training and experience of the Newcastle Port Corporation's marine pilots today, has not always been the case.
In its first years as a commercial port, many sailing ships ended their working lives on the notorious Oyster Bank at the entrance to the Port.
Prior to the construction of the breakwaters at the Port's entrance, heavy seas often pushed the sailing ships into difficulties on the Oyster Bank or Stockton Beach. The northern breakwater at Stockton now lies over the Oyster Bank and many of the wrecks that it claimed.
New Technology
Early Days
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