Captain of Steamer Fined for Laxity in Boat Drill Melbourne
The first case under the Navigation Act was heard yesterday when Edgar Kean, master of a steamer trading on the Tasmanian coast, was fined £5…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924
341 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 18
The [?]Gahere Wreck. Nautical Court Finding Wellington (N.Z.), May 31
The Nautical Court, which inquired into the wreck of the Ngahere, in its judgment, found that the vessel was well stowed and that the master made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer in Heavy Seas
The Berrima arrived at Fremantle [?] Sunday morning after experiencing an extremely rough passage on the voyage out (says a West Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Immigration, Italian Steamer Arrives with Sugar Plantation Men Brisbane
An Italian steamer arrived to-day with 150 Italian immigrants, 0 of whom are going to the sugar plantationa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World Trip in Ketch. the Vessel Damaged on African Coast (Reuter's Message.) Capetown, June 6
Barry Pidgeon, who left Los Angeles three months ago to sail round the world in a fire-ton ketch, left Capetown for St. Helena on June 3. Whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Immigrant's Bad Start Convicted of Theft from Steamer Ballarat
Charged with having stolen a pair of boots and laces, the property of Frank Millard, a fellow-passenger on the steamer Ballarat, Robert Eames, 20 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Aground. Refloating Is Probable with Assistance of Tug Port Pirie
The steamer Saros, owned by Howard Smith and Co., after being idle for Several months owing to a misunderstanding among members of the crew,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia. Riga to Moscow Express Wrecked by a Bomb (Reuter's Message.) London, June 10
The Riga correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports:— The express which runs between Moscow and Riga, which carried…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ferndale Launched. a Commonwealth Steamer Sydney
The 12,800-ton Commonwealth steamer Ferndale was successfully launched at Cockatoo Island yesterday afternoon. The vessel was christened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I.w.w.hall Wrecked. Remarks Objected to (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, June 15
A massage from San Pedro, California, states that a crowd of sailors and civilians, angered by the disparaging remarks alleged to have been made by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Steamer Collision
Twenty persons, mostly women and children, were drowned when two steamers collided near Copenhagen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Kyogle. Alleged Union Attempt to Get Men Off Vessel Sydney
It was stated in industrial circles yesterday that representatives of the Seamen's Union visited the Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Kyogle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on a Steamer. Hobson's Bay Delayed But No Serious Damage (Reuter's Message.) London, June 23
The owners of the Hobson's Bay have received a telegram via the Aden radio station from the commander, stating that a fire accurred in the cross…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Steamer Wrecked. Off Tasmanian Coast. Hobart
The steamer Seymour, a wooden vessel of 750 tons, belonging to the National Portland Cement Company, was wrecked on Darlington Beach on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer on the Rocks. the Nunobitsi Maru Wellington
A Radio message intercepted this morning states that the steamer Nunobitsi Maru ran on the rocks during a thick fog in latitude 32, longitude…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Clan Macmillan. Wrecked Off Small Island in the Bay of Bengal (Reuter's Message.) Calcutta, June 23
Reuter's Rangoon correspondent reports:— "The Clan Macmillan was wrecked on shoals off Preparis, a small island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion on Steamer. Five Missing & Eight Injured (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, June 24
A New York message states that five men are missing and eight were serioulsy injured by an explosion of naptha aboard the British freight steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gales Near Tasmania. Steamer City of Adelaide Now Limping to Hobart Hobart
Stormy weather continues round Tasmania. As the result of fierce gales the steamer City of Adelaide, of 6000 tons, bound from Dunedin to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Steamer Kyogle Request to Leave Vessel Is Not Heeded by Crew Fremantle
Despite the efforts of the Federated Seamen's Union to indue them to leave the chip the crew of the Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Kyoglo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rough Weather Ih N.Z. the Steamer Waihemo Forced to Port Chalmers Auckland, (N.Z.), June 25
Reports from New Zealand state that wild and wet weather has been experienced right round the coast affecting shipping. Landslides and gales have…
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