River Steamer Service Appreciated During Flood Time
Many appreciative references are being made to the manner in which Mr. C. Pullen maintained his river steamer service between Grafton and the Lower River…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
278 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 14
Island Steamer's Officer Operation at Urunga. Sydney
When the island steamer John Williams was passing Urunga, on the North Coast, the vessel signalled that a doctor was wanted aboard, as the chief officer was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speed of Steamer Master Called Upon to Explain. Sydney
It is understood that the master of a steamer who returned to Sydney will be called upon by the Harbor Trust, to explain his speed in the harbor on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Held Up Trouble with Firemen. Sydney
The steamer Manuka, with 270 passengers bound for Australia, was held up at Dunedin owing to trouble with the firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Held Up Trouble with Firemen. Wellington (N.z.)
Owing to trouble Tit.li the firemen the 'Steamer' Manuka, which is on route to Melbourne, was held up at Dunedin yesterday. The crew will be paid off to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing Airways Pilot New Guinea 'Plane Wrecked. Sydney
Alan Cross, the New Guinea Airways pilot, who has been missing from Bololo since Thesday, made a forced binding 15 miles from Wau. The machine was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Rocks Robert E. Lee Passengers Brought Ashore Rescue Boat Overturns. Boston
The steamship Robert E. Lee, running from Boston to New York, with passengers aboard, caught on the jagged rocks off Plymouth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waterside Workers Trouble in Queensland Manning a Lighthouse Steamer Brisbane
A successful coup was carried out this morning by the Commonwealth Navigation and Lighthouse Department, by manning the lighthouse steamer Cape York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Hold Ups Montoro and Ulimaroa. Sydney
Unless the stewards of the steamer Montoro agree to sign fresh articles to-day the vessel will be tied up. There has been no further development…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Tragedy Kinkead's Body Recovered Imprisoned in Plane Wreck Theories of Disaster. London
Exactly 24 hours after he confidently set out to achieve a record, Kinkead's body was recovered so injured that he must have been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fishing Launch Wrecked Owner and Crew Swim Ashore
Mr. Bob Mcllwain, one of the Jetty fishermen, had the bad luck to have his motor fishing la[?]nch wrecked at Wooli, just below the Clarence Heads,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transatlantic Trip in Unsinkable Lifeboat. London
A Dutch unsinkable lifeboat named Schuttvaer, 21 feet long, the result, of 18 years' experimentation, left Westminster Bridge for New York via Spain to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sale of Steamer Riverina. Sydney
Mr. Henley, of the Riverina Salvage Company Limited, said to-day that the steamer Riverina, now lying on Gabo Beach, will be offered at public auction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crew Walk Off Lighthouse Steamer Held Up. Brisbane
Mr. Carrigan, secretary of the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union, stated to-day that on arrival of the Commonwealth lighthouse service steamer Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Arrested Passenger on Steamer Orara. Sydney
Acting upon instructions from Brisbane, police and defectives last night met the steamer Orara on her arrival from Byron Bay and arrested a woman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Struck Iceberg Whaling Steamer Sinks £200,000 Oil Cargo Lost. Wellington (N.z.)
The whaling fleet has suffered another loss in the foundering of the steamer Southern Queen. The vessel struck an iceberg near South Georgia while on its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Crumpled Up' Total Wreck Brushgrove-southgate Ferry Harwood Council Discusses Service
A special meeting of the Harwood Shire Council was held on Wednesday, there being present Crs. R. Collis (president), A. McKinnon, D. Archer, N. J. Cameron, G…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Motor Boat Refloated at Wooli
On Monday morning the men who were engaged trying to refloat the motor boat which was wrecked at Wooli last week, were successful in getting her off the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sea Epic Sealing Ship Wrecked Thrilling Story of Rescue Through the "Roaring Forties." Capetown
A thhilling story was brought to I Capetown by the rescue ship Kildalkey, from Kerguelen. On February 12, the French sealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Service Steamer Deserted Trouble on the Cape Leeuwin. Brisbane
As a result of consolidated action on the part of all unions concerned in the lighthouse service steamer, Cape Leeuwin, dispute, that vessel was practically…
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