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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
186 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 10
While towing the Interstate steamer Canberra into position at a wharf at Balmain this morning, the tug Hero was struck by the vessel's propeller, and a hole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Marine Court commenced the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the grounding of the steamer Luciston, at Ocean Island…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked on a lonely island stocked with 100,000 bottles of champagne cider--that was one of many thrilling experiences of 34 members of the crew of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A radio has been received from the Chinese steamer Ning Chow, 9000 tons, bound from Melbourne to Fremantle, stating that a fire has broken out on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fire in the bunker of the steamer Ning Chow has been extinguished and although a little fire remains in one hold all danger has passed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When Otto Mueller, of South Ravenswood, near Bendigo, returned home yesterday, he saw an armed man in the room. He informed the police, and the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fresh outbreak of fire occurred on the Chinese steamer, Ning Chow, after the vessel moored at Bunbury with one fire already burning. Over 520 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The freighter Fukuju Maru was wrecked near Hakodate during a blizzard yesterday. It is believed the entire crew of 32 were drowned. A destroyer is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No one on the Clarence River has written more faithfully the history of the early steamer craft of the Clarence than Angus McFarlane who, having a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eighteen Chinese, members of the crew of the steamer Milluna, commandeered one of the ship's boats and Commenced to row ashore yesterday afternoon, because…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When three women and two men fought at a house in Buckland street, Alexandria, last night, they practically wrecked the interior of the premises…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →So powerful was the charge of explosive inserted by safebreakers, evidently amateurs, in the door of the safe of the Studley Park Preserving Coy, Collingwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message from Bogota (Colombia) states that more than a score of passengers and many of the crew of a steamer lost their lives when petroleum caught fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A steam launch foundered about 60 miles north of Fremantle on Saturday, but its crew of five swam ashore. One of their number was carried 25 miles by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Cornwall, which recently ran aground, has obtained a certificate of seaworthiness and sailed for London under her own steam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A motor fishing boat, belonging to Mr. W. Mcilwain, of Coif's Harbor, was wrecked recently on the north beach at Wooli…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gang of larrikins entered Joseph Lamaro's shop in Elizabeth street, Red- fern, last night, smashed the fittings and destroyed goods exhibited for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A member of the Chinese crew or the Dutch freighter Aagtekerk, which arrives to-morrow, has contracted leprosy, but the chief quarantine officer, Dr. Metcalfe,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A belated report from Chefoo, a northern seaport, states that two native coasting vessels were wrecked in the vicinity in a dense fog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The privately owned auxiliary schooner which entered the Clarence River a little over a week ago, ran aground on a mud bank opposite the Palmer's Island…
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