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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
186 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 10
Considerable damage was reported from city and suburbs during last night's gale. Scaffolding was blown down front various buildings under cons!ruction, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kingsford Smith hopes to take off at the end of June from Ireland, on his Transatlantic hop. His destination will be Roosevelt Field. New York, as he is under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Joseph Sims struck a submerged rock off Passage Islands, Flinders Strait, on Friday. The stern carried away and the vessel, sank quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the heavy seas running at Byron Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning, a fishing launch, the property of Mr. G. Groves, was destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The small steamer Tees, for whose safely anxiety was felt, arrived at Chatham Islands yesterday. She had been delayed by bad weather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marine Court to-day reserved its decision regarding the charge of negligence against Neil Forness master of the auxiliary schooner, Joseph Sims, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day suspended for six months the master's certificate of Neil Forness, captain of the auxiliary selfooner, Joseph Sims,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Through the early hours of the morning details came trickling in of a collision between the coastal steamer Fairfax, carrying 70 passengers, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first test mulch has been one of sensations. Grimmett's brilliant bowling was responsible For the dismissal of some of England's batting giants early on Friday, but Chapman, Hobbs and Robins splendidly retrieved the position, and when play ceased on Friday England bad lost eight wickets for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American tramp steamer Beulals had a narrow escape from being overwhelmed by huge waves during a heavy gale 100 miles east of Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the steamer Goulburn was being moved from one berth to another across Darling Harbor this afternoon, the vessel became unmanageable in the high wind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the voyage of the steamer Elverie from Port Kembla to Newcastle a seaman was swept overboard by heavy seas and downed. The man was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Nowshera Which arrived to-day had a terrifying voyage from Capetown. At one time in the Indian Ocean waves forty feet high swept the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to a wireless message received in Sydney last night an object resembling the mast of a vessel, with stays attached, was sighted off the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HARBOR GRACE, Wednesday. The opinion of the crew of the Southern Cross is that the steamer Majestic is good enough to take them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ferry steamer Kiandra drifted helplessly about the harbor last night when the steering gear broke down. Two collisions were narrowly averted before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The man who collapsed and died on Manly ferry last night has been identified as Herbert Frederick Tonus. 50. a former chief steward, whose home was at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A tiny leak in a ship can easily bo stopped if taken in time, but if disregarded it will overcome the mightiest vessel, and drag her beneath the sea;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The presence in Grafton yesterday of the large party of New Zealand farmers who are touring the eastern States of Australia in pursuance of the precept, "Education by Travel," created considerable public interest. Early in the morning the "Reso" train conveying the tourists arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jean Marmoz, who was attempting the first South Atlantic eastward crossing with mails, alighted when 2000 miles had been covered, owing to oil pipe trouble…
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