New North Coast Steamer
A telegram from Sydney states that after a voyage of 75 days from Glasgow the North Coast S.N. Co.'s new cargo steamer Urana arrived at Sydney…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924
268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 14
Not on Steamer. Visiting Professor Missing. Sydney
A well-known English educationist, Professor John Adams, who is coming to Sydney to commence a series of five lectures on educational subjects at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excursion Steamer Sinks. Boats Rescue Passengers. New York
A message from Norfolk (Virginia) states that the excursion steamer Gratitude, with 200 persons aboard, sank in the harbor. It is believed that most of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckage Found. Fishermen Believed Drowned. Perth
A telegram from Geraldtown states the wreckage has been found and identified by a boy as belonging to a boat owned by his father, John Akerstrom, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Wrecked. Occupants Washed on to Rocks. Sydney
A motor launch with two occupants was washed on to the rocks at Middle Head on Saturday night and smashed to pieces. Those on board succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miraculous Escape. Driver Pinned Under Wreckage. Sydney
The driver of a motor bus, Arthur Ashover, had a miraculous escape from death to-day when two motor buses collided at the corner of Railway street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overloading Steamer Shipping Master Fined Sydney
A shipping master was fined £20 at Adelaide for overloading a steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Ship Wrecked Heavy Loss of Life Tokio
The Japanese steamer Tairli Maru was reported lost off Cape Notoro on the evening of July 28. There were 138 passengers and 54…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Towed Ketch Founders. One Man Missing. Melbourne
The ketch Eliza Davies foundered in Buss Strait. She had a crew of four on board, three of whom were saved. The missing man is William Davis, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarantine Regulations. Steamer Arafura in Melbourne. Melbourne
The passengers by the steamer Arafura, on which a case of bubonic plague had been reported, have been released on surveillance, but will have to report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Aground. Gale on South Coast. Fierce Blow in Sydney. Sydney
Sydney, and the South Coast were swept by a fierce westerly windstorm last night. At Port Kembla the Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Ketch Survivor's Story. Fine Rescue Work. Sydney
The castaways from the ketch Eliza Davies arrived in Sydney to-day by the steamier Chronos. Captain O'Neill, of the lost vessel in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disabled Steamer Sydney
An examination of the steamer Milluna, which went ashore at Port Kembla and was subsequently refloated, disclosed that its propellor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of the World. Japanese Destroyer Ashore. Tokio
A message from Ketre says that the Japanese destroyer No. 4 grounded at the entrance to Deppu Harbor early this morning while refuging from a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Distress Signals. Steamer in Rough Weather. Wellington (N.z.)
Anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Ripple, a vessel of 413 tons, which left Wellington yesterday afternoon for Napier in heavy southerly gales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trail of Typhoon Sooth Japan Visited loss of life and property. Destroyer Driven Ashore. Nagasaki
A typhoon swept over South Japan, including Kyushu and Formosa. The railway traffic everywhere was inter ru[?]ted and the telephone and telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing Steamer. Man's Body Washed Up. Wellington (N.z)
The police have received word that a boat and the body of a man have been found at Flat Point. They are believed to be from the missing steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Terrible Sea. Ship Believed to Have Foundered. Wellington (N.z.)
Few additional clues to the fate of the steamer Ripple have been wadded to those already found on the coast north of Cape Palliser, in the shape of a body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Body Washed Ashore. Captain of Steamer Ripple. Wellington (N.z.)
The body of Captain Norling, of the steamer Ripple, was found yesterday four miles south of Castle Point. It was dressed only in shoes, socks and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Foundered Ketch. Seaman's Despair. Melbourne
An inquest was held into the death of William Davis, able seaman, who was drowned when the little ketch, Eliza Davis, foundered in Bass Strait on…
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