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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
205 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 11
A violent explosion occurred in a boot shop in front of the picture theatre at Earlwood at 3 o'clock this morning. The shop was wrecked and the roadway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York's new and vigorous Police Commissioner, Grover Whalen, is continuing drastic measures to reorganise the Police Department and its methods. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Board of Trade, inquiry into the Rye lifeboat disaster, in which 17 men lost their lives, reports that probably the lifeboat capsized suddenly in a dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Trelissick arrived at Newcastle yesterday from the Gulf of Mexico with her bunker coal on fire. Frantle efforts were being made to discharge the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three survivors have been landed from the Malakoff, which sank on January 4. When the lifeboat sank, the three men climbed on to a racing yacht, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Norwegian steamer, Oleaarvold, which does not carry wireless, was towed 350 miles to Aberdeen, after drifting helplessly in the Atlantic for 29 days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While going out to the aid of a stranded steamer a Dutch steam lifeboat capsized in the mountainous waves and the whole crew of eight were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The search for survivors of the ill-fated Chinese coaster, Hsin Wah, which sank outside Hongkong early yesterday, continues fruitlessly. All four foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Later reports of the sinking of the steamer Hsin Wah outside Hong Kong harbor in a violent storm reveal that although the vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While entering Moreton Bay to-day the steamer Canadian Scottish struck Smith's Rock but was able to proceed up river to Brisbane. Last week the Canadian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North Coast steamer, Arakoon, had a rough trip down the coast from Coff's Harbor, with the result that her coal supplies ran out and it became…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Allyn River, a well-known coaster, reached Broken Bay this morning leaking badly. Her master Captain Redgrove, took her to shallow water just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mountainous seas are running along the Atlantic coast and ships are calling for aid. A British steamer is believed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hugh Douglas, 15, and Gorden M[?]farlane, 16, went sailing[?]at Napier, Thursday, and failed to return. See[?] parties found the boat upturned but [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Ihumata had a rough trip from Newcastle to New Plymouth, New Zealand. Several cabins were flooded, ventilators and portholes smashed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, President of the Board of Trade, said in the House of Commons that an inquiry would be held into, the loss of the Vestris by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ernest Aldington, driver of the express, which was involved, in the Harfield disaster, was acquitted. The Crown did not tender evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened on the Manning bar on Saturday. The tugboat, John Gollan, went out over the bar and sounded prior to taking the Sydney steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 12 hatch covers, believed to have belonged to the Annie M. Miller, were washed ashore at North Bondi to-day. Despite a search which lasted all day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Channel steamer Ville de Liege, which for some hours was stranded on the rocks, eventually sank. The vessel carried forty passengers and a crew of…
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