Lifeboat Woman at 70
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution bas awarded its record of thanks and a gold brooch to Mrs. Margaret Brown. of Cresswell. Northumterland,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1922
109 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 6
[?]Zzard in English Channel Shipping in Difficulties Craft Reported Foundered with All Her Hands Lost (United Service Message.) London, March 22
The beginning of spring in Britain has been marked by a terrific blizzard over the English Channel. Cross-Channel steamer and air services have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Sprincs a Leak Sends Out S.O.S. Signals Port Reached in Safety (Reuter's Message.) London, March 23
The crew of the United States steamer West Caruth are having an exciting experience. They have sent out a wireless message reporting that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Springs a Leak Sends Out S.O.S. Signals Port Reached in Safety (Reuter's Message.) London, March 23
The crew of the United States steamer West Caruth are haring an exciting experience. They have sent out a wireless message reporting that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collisions in Port River Steamer Crashes Into Tug Adelaide
While the Commonwealth steamer Gulgar was being towed from her before in the Port River to-day the wind caught her and she crushed the tug…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prospectors' Lugger Sunk Northern Territory Party Wrecked by "Willy Willy" Two Men Missing Adelaide
Telegraphic information was received in Adelaide from Darwin this morning of a disaster which occurred at sea on March 13 off a remote part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked Prospecting Party Search for Missing Men
The following telegram from Mr. W. Bestwick (leader of the north-west of Australia oil prospecting expedition, which was wrecked off the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Prospecting Party Search for Missing Men
The following telegram from Mr. W. Bestwick (leader of the north-west of Australia oil prospecting expedition, which was wrecked off the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Wrecked 17 of the Crew Drowned (Reuter's Message.) London, April 28
Reuter's Havre correspondent reports that 17 of the crew, including the captain, were drowned from the 3000ton steamer Deputy Albert Taillandier,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Wrecked 17 of the Crew Drowned (Reuter's Message.) London, April 28
Reuter's Havre correspondent reports that 17 of the crew, including the captain, were drowned from the 3000ton steamer Deputy Albert Taillandier,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage Washed Ashore Report to Navigation Dept. Sydney
Pilots at Harrington, on the Manning River, and at Forster (Cape Hawke), and a settler at Elizabeth Head, have all reported to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage Washed Ashore Report to Navigation Dept. Sydney
Pilots at Harrington, on the Manning River, and at Forster (Cape Hawke), and a settler at Elizabeth Head, have all reported to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dead Rat on the Dimboola Steamer Quarantined Perth
A sensation was caused at Fremantle to-day by the report that a case of bubonic plague had been found on the steamer Dimboola. A dead rat was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest News Issue Loss of the S.S. Egypt Return of Survivors More Stories of the Wreck Lascars Push Women Into Sea (Reuter's Message.) London, May 25
There were affecting scene this mornming when the 18 passengers, the survivors from the Egypt, wnich was sunk in a collision off Ushort, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Last Edition Loss of the S.S. Egypt Return of Survivors More Stories of the Wreck Lascars Push Women Into Sea (Reuter's Message.) London, May 25
There were affecting scenes this morning when the 18 passengers, the survivors from the Egypt, which was sunk in a collision off Ushant, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men on a Raft Timely Arrival of Steamer Sydney
After floating about for four days on a raft without food or water two Malaya were saved by the E. and A. S. steamer St. Albans while on her voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner in Danger S.s.wiltshire Ashore on Great Barrier Reef Wireless Messages Sent Auckland
A wireless message has been received here from the steamer Wiltshire stating that she is ashore on the Great Barrier Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to Wreck Express Sleeper Fastened on Rails Schoolboy's Act Brisbane
An attempt was made to wreck "the Brisbane express on Tuesday afternoon. A heavy wooden sleeper that had been fastened across the rails between East…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Steamer Held Up by British Destroyer (Reuter's Message.) London, June 1
The destroyer Warwick held up al steamer voyaging between Moville and Londonderry, at a point on Lough Foyle where the Ulster border forms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.S. Wiltshire a Wreck Vessel Breaks in Two on Great Barrier Island Efeorts to Rescue Crew. No Passengers on Board Sydney
The steamer Wiltshire, which went ashore on the Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, on Wednesday night, is now a total wreck. She carried a crew…
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