Fire on Steamer Desperate Fight in Mid-ocean. Auckland
The steamer Sussex, on which a fire occurred in mid-ocean on the voyage to Samarang reached Auckland yesterday. Six holes were cut through the iron…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
205 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 11
Plane's Nose Dive. Machine Wrecked Near Goulburn. Sydney
A Gipsy Moth aeroplane, flown by [?]. M. Littlejohn, a member of the Sydney section of the Aero Club, nose-dived near Goulburn yesterday. The aviator crawled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Kyogle
Clarence River residents became interested in the rescue of the international aviators, Moir and Owen, by the part taken in their transference from Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Wrecked Journalist Believed Drowned Companion Washed Ashore. Newcastle
Geoffrey Jacoby, a well- know jaurnalist, is believed to have been drowned when a 25- ton launch was wrecked at Catherine Hill Bay early this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sick Child Steamer's S.O.S, for Doctor Answered by Big Liner. Sydney
When the steamer Orvieto was three days out from Colombo she picked up a wireless, message from the steamer bank, appealing for medical aid for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Burnt All Hands Believed Lost. Tokio
The Japanese steamer Ugo Maru, while proceeding to the fishing grounds, is reported to have been burnt off the shore of Kamchatka. The crew of 70, mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drifting Dinghy Picked Up by Steamer Ulmarra Sydney
The steamer Ulmarra, while on her way from the Clarence River to Sydney yesterday morning, picked up a drifting dinghy off the Broken Bay. The light…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale on Coast Steamer and Launch Buffeted. Sydney
During a heavy gale the steamer Kairanga dragged anchor and drifted towards the rocks at Wollongong yesterday. Fortunately the wind suddenly lulled and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hit with Bottle Fight on Steamer. Sydney
During an argument between two members of the crew of the steamer Canadian Leader at Woolloomooloo, Barney Hohnston, 28, received an extensive wound to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Vellore to Be Sent Back to England Melbourne
Sir Keith Smith, Australian representative of Vickers, Armstrong, Ltd., has decided that the biplane used by Moir and Owen, on their flight from England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lear Black's Plane Wrecked. Calcutta
Van Lear Black's 'plane, which anchored at the Dum Dum aerodrome, prior to being broken up for shipment to America, was blown over and wrecked by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Wrecked Efforts to Rescue Crew. Vancouver
A message from Astoria (Oregon), says the cargo steamer Laurel was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River during a storm. An attempt is beeing made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deaths at Sea Two on Steamer Aorangi. Sydney
A series of misadventures marked the voyage of the steamer Aorangi on the trip from Vancouver. Frank Gilmour, 17, a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing Kobenhaven Another Steamer to Search Sydney
The steamer Junce, belonging to the Adelaide Company, has been chartered by another company and it is understood she will leave shortly on a special search…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Island Trader Wrecked. Sydney
A message received at Sydney to-day states that the small island trader, Vella was totally wrecked off the coast of New Guinea. The crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EARTHQUAKE Fifteen Dead In N.Z. Hills Slide Into Valleys Rivers Blocked-floods Feared Murchison Township Wrecked. Wellington (N.z.)
Fifteen persons are now reported to have been killed by earthquakes in New Zealand. Landslides overwhelmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Y.A.L. BOY Mild Case Of Smallpox on Steamer Aorangi Search for 790 Passengers. Sydney
A mild case of smallpox was discovered among the Y.A.L. boys, who arrived in Sydney by the Aorangi on Saturday. One boy was thought to be suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Wrecked Spectators Hurt at Bundaberg
There were narrow escapes at the Bundaberg aerodrome on Tuesday afternoon, when an Avro Avian machine turned von its side among a group of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturdays Cyclone Steamer's Rough Experience. Sydney
The Swedish steamer Roxen, which reached Sydney late last night after experiencing a terrific cyclone off the Queensland coast, was at one time in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ran Out of Coal Steamer Sheltering at Seal Rocks Sydney
The French steamer Commandant Destreman, bound from Noumea' to Sydney, is sheltering at Seal Rocks, awaiting coal supplies, as her bunkers ran low on…
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