Exciting Experience Wrecked Fishermen Rescued. Sydney
Three fisherman named James Purtus, R. Wilson and the latter's son W. Wilson, left Avalon Beach, near Newport, yesterday morning at daybreak in a 16 foot boat…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1925
241 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 13
Steamer Fire Discovered On Coombar Outbreak in Forecastle Suspicious Circumstances. Sydney
Suspicious circumstances surround a fire which broke out aboard the North Coast Company's steamer Coombar while lying at the wharf at Sussex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vessel with Volunteer Crew. Wrecked Near Wilson's Promontory Melbourne
The steamer Awaroa with a volunteer crew from Tasmania to Melbourne went ashore near Wilson's Promontory. The vessel is a wreck, but the crew is saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jack Ashore. Trouble Starts Early. "Who Won the War?" Yanks Resent Cibe. Sydney
People returning to business this morning discussed nothing but the Kleet. The popular impression after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scow Ashore. Lashed by Huge Waves. Auckland
The auxiliary scow Fairburn was beached at Whakatane during a heavy gale. The Vessel was unable to make for the open sea and the captain decided to run her on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Abandoned Steamer Inquiry Opened in Melbourne. Melbourne
A preliminary inquiry regarding the loss of the Tasmanian steamer Awaroa, which was abandoned off Cape Liptrap last Thursday, has been held by the…
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No trace of the derelict steamer Awaroa has been found by search ships from Waratah Bay. It is believed the vessel has sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Wrecked in Phillipines. Manila
The British steamer Egremont Castle, which, grounded last week on Tubbataha reef in the Sulu Sea slipped off the reef in a squall on Sunday morning and sank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jack Ashore Sailors Assaulted Stories in Police Courts. Sydney
Norman Austin, 27 a bootmaker, who is alleged to have stabbed the American sailor, John Martin in Oxford street on Satturday night, was to-day sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Expr[?]s Wrecked Three Kil[?]d, Twenty Injured. Paris
An unusu[?]ecident befell the Basic express. The [?]ain smashed into a light engine outsid[?]aredelest. Three passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Passage Steamer in Gale. Wellington (N.z.)
The steamer Waimarino, which has arrived from Newcastle with 6000 tons of coal, experienced heavy weather on the voyage across. The vessel was repeatedly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHINA Students' Callousness Stranded British Steamer Riots at Nanking. Hongkong
Indignation has been aroused in mercantile marine circles at the callousness of about 2000 Chinese passengers, of whom a large number were students, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FINALISED Shipping Agreement Work Again on Friday Tasmanian Steamer "Black." Sydney
The shipping agreement has been finalised in Melbourne and it will be signed to-morrow. Notifications have been sent to all ports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cook's Mate Woman in Man's Clothes on Steamer Bonalbo Woman Novelist's Grit. Sydney
The seamen's strike and the calling for volunteer crews by the North Coast Steamship Company resulted in a woman making to trip on board to Bonalbo to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Almost Sinks While Lying at Wharf. Melbourne
The steamer Eumariila sprang a leak while lying at a wharf at Melbourne yesterday afternoon. The vessel had come out of dock, earlier in the day…
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While the steamer Dundula was entering Newcastle Harbor to-day she sheared to northward and would have piled up on the rocks had not the anchor been let…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Storm 4 Killed, 100 Injured Enormous Damage Netherlands Towns Wrecked. Amsterdam
The East Netherlands districts last evening were swept by a terrific thunderstorm, causing loss of life and much damage to property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SCHOONER H. K. Hall. a Long Passage. Sydney
The five-masted schooner H. K. Hall, about whose safety considerable anxiety was being felt, has arrived at Callao from Newcastle after a voyage of 140 days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Buffeted Oil on the Troubled Waters. Melbourne
The steamer Hurunus which arrived in Melbourne yesterday from Liverpool encountered tempestuous weather at one period of the voyage, during which several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lost Ketch Marine Court Inquiry. Melbourne
The Marine Court held an inquiry to-day concerning the disappearance of the ketch Laileeta. The vessel left Bal gowan, South Australia, on April 11 with…
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