The Wanderer Wreck. Story Told to Coroner. "Should Have Been Better Watch Kept."
The story of how the fishing boat Wanderer was wrecked at Coffs Harbour early on the morning of the 4th inst, was told to the Coroner, Mr…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
205 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 11
Telegrams Crushed Between Steamer and Skiff. Sydney
While Alec Stevenson, 33, mate of the pilot ship, Captain Cook, was attempting to make fast a skiff which had broken from its moorings, off the heads last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Yacht Crew's Hardships
Wrecked off Cape Manifold, Mr. J. E. Gallen and his sons, Percy and Donald, suffered great privations, before reaching Yeppoon (Q.) on Thursday. The…
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The mission steamer, Southern Cross, is disabled at Norfolk Island, owing to a broken rudder trunk. All the passengers, with the exception of the Bishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecking with Magnets
The electric lifting magnet, while employed chiefly for handling magnetic materials As also useful when its properties are applied to the desolation of obsolete…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Days Overdue Steamer's Rough Passage. Sydney
After encountering terrific weather practically all the way from Noumea, the small French steamer St. Vincent De Paul reached port last night three days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tornado Wrecks School 20 Children Killed. Clinch (Port Virginia)
Twenty school children are known to have been killed and the number of injured is not determined when a tornado demolished the two-storey…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Wall Wrecked Prisoners Killed and Injured. Colombus (Ohio)
Two prisoners were killed and six injured, three seriously, when a tornado struck the city gaol to-day. The prisoners were trapped in their bunks when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crossed Atlantic in Twenty-two Foot Lifeboat. Gibara (Cuba)
Paul Muller, a German sailor, arrived here after a safe crossing of the Atlantic in a 22 foot lifeboat. He used a sail and oars. He left Hamburg on July 6…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crew's Hardships Missing Launch Washed Ashore. Auckland
The launch Ngaru. which was reported msising off the New Zealand coast on Monday, was driven ashore early yesterday morning at Whangaparoa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Washed Off Rocks Rescued by Pilot Steamer. Sydney
A man named Van Hall was washed off the rocks at Rosa Gully, South Head, to-day, and was being rapidly carried out to sea when the pilot steamer picked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violent Explosion of Prating Theatre Wrecked Steriliser Bursts. Hobart
A violent explosion occurred in the operating theatre at the Spencer Hospital, Wynyard, due to a patent steriliser, in which petrol was being burnt,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Hospital Wrecked Horrifying Disaster at Cleveland Helpless Patients Asphyxiated in Their Beds 95 Persons Killed, 100 Injured Deadly Gases Released by Explosion Nothing Like It Since the War
The medical history of the United States, and of the world, never before experienced such loss of life, coupled with destruction of property, including invaluable medical records and equipment, as that resulting from several terrific explosions in the basement of a hospital in Cleveland, a big…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floating Bag Seen in River Stirred Up by Steamer Police Dragging Again
There was an unexpected development in the Geoffrey Knott mystery when South Grafton police early yesterday suddenly resumed dragging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man on Steamer Police Make Vain Search. Fremantle
Police are inquiring into the mysterious disappearance of a steerage passenger from the steamer Zealandia. It is stated that after the vessel left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Sign Moir and Owen Brain Hurrying North Dutch Steamer Searching. Sydney
Inquiries made by the civil aviation authorities show that the message sent to Moir and Owen by Sir Keith Smith, at the request of Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Derby 'Plane Wrecked. Melbourne
A 'plane which was on its way to take part in the Victorian Aerial Derby, made a forced landing, owing to darkness, near Nhill, en route from Adelaide to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Goldfields Among Miners And Natives 1 New Guinea's Eldorado Exciting Experience As Gaoler Eventful Voyage in 13-Ton Schooner. From Rabual to New Guinea's El Dorado in a 13-Ton Schooner
After serving in Rabaul for five months I received instructions in September, 1927, to proceed by first available means to take over the Login Police Post, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Both Hurt Moir And Owen Vellore Machine Wrecked Airmen Now Aboard Steamer Will Reach Darwin To-day. Sydney
A message was received in Sydney this afternoon from the Government Resident, at Darwin stating that Moir and Owen's machine was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Adrift Chief Officer Prevents Big Smash. Fremantle
The freighter Somerset was blown from her moorings at Victoria Quay and collided with a vessel in the adjacent berth, which severely crushed a lighter. The…
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