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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
120 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 6
Several persons were injured, one seriously, and thousands of pounds worth of damage was done to houses, outbuildings, and crops by a terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifteen persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a city residential, at the corner of Kent and Market streets, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was reported last September that the former Victorian coastal steamer Eumeralla, which had been renamed Mei Lee No. 2, was sunk at the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nine lives were lost in the sinking of the French steamer Boree, of 1145 tons, off Caen, in a fog, near the Wash this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At least 30 were killed and 60 injured to-day when a carload of dynamite exploded at the village of Tultennge. The force of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The auxiliary ketch Wanderer encountered such heavy seas on Thursday after leaving Sydney last Friday week that the steering gear was carried…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thirty-one Japanese sailors, who were shipwrecked in a sampan about 150 miles from the Queensland coast, will be allowed to remain on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disaster overtook the steamer Nairana while travelling between Burnie (Tas.) and Melbourne with 88 passengers in both classes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One man is missing as the result of launch being wrecked at Urunga this morning. News of the disaster was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bravery of Captain D. Macrae and a boat crew from the pilot steamer Birubi, saved the lives of two brothers, whose yacht was wrecked on Big Benn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While paddling a small dnighy with their hands along the foreshore of Moreton Bay to Sandgate to-day, Matthew Daly (21) and Frank Norman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An interesting story is related of the life of the late Thomas Plater, of Taloumbi, Clarence River, whose descendants are well known on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The bursting of Italian aerial bombs now merges with the detonations of dynamite, with which the Abyssinians are hurling the road and its abutments in tons of shattered shale down the hillsides of the mountain pass, leading from Shulameda Plain over the Tarmarbur barrier range to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although the population is very small at Newcastle Waters, the tiny settlement turned out en masse this afternoon to greet Flight-Lieut. Hely and Aircraftsmen Walkington and Sherwood who, in a motor truck, entered the little township, following their rescue beside the wrecked Air Force Rapide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thousands travelled all day today to see the four-masted Finnish barque Herzogin Cecile aground on the rocks off Devon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The top of the cabin of the launch which, with James Rowe and William Passmore aboard, capsized on the Bellinger bar a fortnight ago, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grave tears are entertained for the safety of Harold York Thompson. 35. solicitor, of Parramatta, and his brother. Allen Lloyd Thompson, 32…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused to-day when, a fire, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, broke out in the steamer Taroona,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With a pilot, navigator and three passengers, all men, aboard, an amphibian Windhover plane while on a flight from Melbourne to King…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A motor launch, belonging to the Navigation Department, was wrecked at Clarence Heads, on Wednesday. No one was in the…
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