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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
278 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 14
At the Vestris inquiry Joseph Boxill, a negro stoker, said that the Vestris lifeboat No. 4, filled mostly with woman and children, was lowered within five feet of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deliberate attempt was made to burn the Australian steamer Woolgar at the wharf-last night. The captain was aroused by the fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The remarkable statement that he had no alternative but to allow a man under the influence of liquor to take the helm of the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coastal steamer Excelsior was beached in Parsley Bay this afternoon after having entered the harbor in a leaking condition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is understood that a case of smallpox was landed from the steamer Ballarat, at Capetown. When the ship arrived to-day she was placed in strict quarantine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coastal vessel Excelsior, which was beached at Parsley Bay last night, was refloated this morning and proceeded up the harbor to discharge her cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For some months the executive and members of the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club have been endeavoring to raise funds for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The DH60 Moth aeroplane was wrecked while making a forced landing at North Essendon last night, when it crashed into a fence. Peter Maitland and Keith…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Australian journalist, Davies, giving evidence before the Tuttle inquiry, said he never saw the captain of the Vestris from the time of sailing, although…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British cargo steamer, Chief Maquilla, bound to Shanghai from British Columbia with lumber and grain, was disabled in the mid-Pacific in a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A quantity of wreckage has been washed on the beach at Port Hill, near Darwin Examination revealed that the schooner Huddersfield had sunk at her mooring…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two gas cylinders exploded with a terrific report in Reid and Sons plumbers' shop at Newtown to-night. The building, which consists of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The White Star liner Celtic went ashore in the darkness while entering Cork Harbor, Queenstown, Ireland. Efforts to tow off the liner were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fishing launch which went ashore near Avalon Beach yesterday is now a total wreck. Mr. Keachie, joint owner of the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Celtic is now firmly embedded and her cargo of nine thousand tons of grain may have to be removed by lighters. There is a danger of the wheat becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Raisdale, which has been ashore on a coral reef off the coast of. Java for some days, has been towed off and is proceeding to Sourabaya…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Norman Berry Littlejohn, of Strathfield, and Robert Francis, of Mascot, were seriously injured when a privately owned aeroplane crashed here on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the wreck of the steamer New England on the Clarence bar, December 27, 1882. Though many years have passed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Morinda which has been aground on the Papuan coast for 16 days has been refloated and is now on her way to Port Moresby for survey…
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