Stranded Steamer. Colombo
Attempts of the tugs Hercules and Olivia to tow the steamer Hoehst off the reef so far have proved fruitless. The vessel…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
205 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 11
N. Z. Steamer Struck. Rough Weather in Tasman Sea. Sydney
The steamer Maunganui struck. particularly rough weather while crossing the Tasman Sea, and when she arrived at Sydney to -day bore ample evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liner Cut of Control Smashed Wharf and Sank Ketch. Adelaide
When the motor ship Manunda was being turned in the Port River, preparatory to leaving for Melbourne Yesterday afternoon the vessel apparently got out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heath in First Accident To Pratt East-west Air Race Plane Wrecked and Passenger Injured. Tammin. (W.a.)
A serious accident occurred in the East West air race to-day when the machine piloted by Pratt while flying low, was blown against a tree by a heavy gust of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hochst Still Aground Rescue Steamer in Same Plight. Colombo
The Trautenfels, a vessel of the Hannsa Line, on Saturday proceeded to Minicoy to rescue the steamer Hochst, and has herself grounded off the reef, and is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the World Steamer Hochst May Be Abandoned. Colombo
The salvage men on the tug Hercules, which is attempting to salvage the disabled steamer Hochst, refused to work owing to shortage of food. The German…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forty Drowned Norwegian Steamer Crashes Into Half-tide Rock Lark Night and Furious Storm Oslo
During a furious storm, the coastal steamer Hankon, travelling at 12 knots, was speedily sunk at Flore, Swing to crashing into a half-tide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the World Steamer Ho[?]hst Abandoned. Colombo
The disabled steamer Hochst, which went aground off Minicoy Island, has been definitely, abandoned. The crew will be shipped to Hamburg, where an inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner Foundered Crew Picked Up. Sydney
A radio message was received yesterday stating that the auxiliary schooner Bretagne foundered on the voyage from San Francisco to Samoa. In the absence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Wreck Prison Supposed Amazing Plot. Adelaide
An amazing plot is believed to have been revealed by the theft of a quantity of gelignite from a magazine, near the Yatala labor prison quarries. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the World Stranded Steamer Hochst on Fire. Colombo
Captain Brocklebank, of the Mathura, in a wireless message, states that he picked up 28 of the crew of the Hochst, and that the ship was burning fiercely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General Wreck of the Pappinbarra
Salvage operations on the stranded steamer Pappinbarra, at Port Stephens, have been abandoned, and the wreck will be sold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer on Fire. London
The owners of the steamer Telemachus have received a radio message from the captain, reporting a fire in two holds. The outbreak, which occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Ashore. Sydney
The Union Company's steamship Kahika went ashore on Waikanae. beach, near Gisborne, New Zealand, during a southerly gale. The crew landed safely, Owing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams Wrecked Pappinbarra Sold. Sydney
The wreck of the coastal steamer Pappinbarra, which went ashore on the North Coast recently, was sold at auction for £145 and the timber portion of the cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Refloated. Sydney
A message from Wellington (New Zealand), says that the stranded cargo steamer Kahika was refloated this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floating Mast of Steamer. Sydney
A wireless message was re[?]ived in Sydney last night from the steamer Marsina which was due at Rabaul yesterday, stating that what was apparently the mast of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Abandoned. Capetown
All hope has been abandoned of salraging the steamer Hypatia, which is ground at the entrance to Table Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£80,000 Worth of Copper Salvage From Wrecked Steamer. Capetown
Copper ingots on board the wrecked steamer Hypatia, valued at £80,000, are being salvaged by eight tenders on a percentage basis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ramsay Macdonald Wants to See Dominions Interviewed on Steamer. London
"I want to go to South Africa Australia and New Zealand, in order to complete the [?]rounded said Mr. Macdonald, when interviewed on beard the steamer…
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