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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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
205 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 11
Short of Coal Predicament of French Steamer. Sydney
The French steamer Commandant Destremau, which ran short of coal on the voyage from Noumea to Sydney, was yesterday morning, off Seal Rocks, given a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion at Sea Unknown Vessel Sinks Wreckage Found. London
The Danish steamer Anneborg wirelessed that officers saw a vessel sink after an explosion, 25 miles north of Yarmouth. Lifeboats and other vessels,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mystery Solved Wrecked Crew Landed. London
A mysterious explosion in the North Sea last-night, followed by a report that a vessel was seen to have been sinking, is now solved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opium Smuggling. French Steamer Held Up. Suva
One of the crew of the steamer Ville de Verdun was fined £75, or two months' imprisonment, for smuggling 26 pounds of opium into Fiji The ship was held up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the World Steamer Ashore. Perim
The British steamer, Tougaririo, from Bowen to London, went ashore five miles south-west of Rasalara. She is not taking any water on board, but has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unity Conference Wrecked by Communists. A.W.U. Manifesto. Sydney
The Australian Workers' Union issued a manifesto to-night, alleging that well known Communist members of the Australian Labor Party had been responsible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Stowaways Landed at Sydney From Frisco Bound Steamer. Sydney
Three men who stowed away at Adelaide, on the steamer Roxen, bound for San Francisco, were put ashore at Sydney to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harbor Collision Ferry and Steamer. Sydney
The steamer Gwydir and the ferryboat Kookaburra collided in the harbor this morning, but good seamanship by the masters of both vessels caused no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned to Port Steamer Breaks Down. Sydney
Shortly after it left Sydney yesterday, on the way to Brisbane, the engines of the steamer Caprera failed and two tugs were sent out at top speed to assist her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Mystery Plane Wrecked Is France. London
The mystery flight of the Russian aeroplane, "Wings of the Soviet," with nine on board, ended in disaster when it crashed and was wrecked in France. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →129 PERISH Wreck Of The Vestris Record Marine Inquiry Steamer Was Overloaded Vessel Not in Safe Condition. London
The most protracted marine inquiry iii British history culminated in a lengthy report on the Vestris disaster, which occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner on Sandbank Captain and Crew Saved. Melbourne
The schooner Woolomai. 15 tons, was blown on to a sandbank, at Point Richards, about two miles from Portarlington, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kobenhaven Steamer Junee's Long Search. London
The following message has been received by radio from the steamer Junee, which is searching for the missing Danish training ship, Kobenhaven: "We…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Six Mins. Spanish Steamer Sinks Rammed by Tug One Body Recovered, 18 Missing. London
Thirty miles from the Humber mouth, at 3 o'clock this morning, the ocean-going tug, King's Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robbed of Pocket Wallet When Boarding Steamer. Sydney
Shortly after the mail steamer Niagara left Sydney yesterday, Mr. J. E. Gray, managing director of the Atlantic Union Oil Company, wirelessed to the police that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Penguins Washed Ashore. Capetown
Dead penguins by the hundreds were washed ash ore on the south-east coast in good condition as a result of an [?]ing paralysis to the legs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Memories the Florence McKENZIE First Passenger Steamer Built on Clarence
Some time ago I was asked by an old identity, who had been absent from the Clarence many year's, what had become of the passenger steamer. Florence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooded Out Oil in Cabins Passengers on Steamer Baradine. ' COLOMBO
About 80 passengers from the P. and O. branch liner Baradine, including a number of children, were forced to come ashore on Friday night as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →70 DROWNED Collision In Dense Fog Coastal Steamer Rammed Went Down in Five Minutes. San Francisco
The White Flyer Line coastal steamer, San Juan, under Captain Adolphe Asplund, was rammed by the tanker, Scot Doon, in a dense fog,…
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