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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
270 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 14
A sudden impetus has been given to the Derby by the arrival of the French candidate, Ptolemy II, on a specially chartered steamer. From the moment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reuter's Constantinople correspondent reports:— Forty-four of the passengers and the crew were drowned when the Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Marine Court to-day suspended the certificate of Captain Alfred Anderson, master of the steamer Wallsend. He was found guilty of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company steamer Cyrena, with all her hold[?] leaking, lies aground near the entrance to the Wanganui River. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The schooner Maror, which left Newcastle 35 days ago, had not arrived at Gisborne. her destination. Anxiety is felt in shipping circles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steamer Barwon is aground off the steel works channel in the Newcastle harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steamer Barwon is aground off the steel works channel in the Newcastle harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steamer Barwon is aground off the steel works channel in the Newcastle harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To a "Daily Express" correpondent Captain Hany Mack, an Australian, has related at Londonderry a thrilling story of a wreck. He said that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following on the deregistration of the union, members of the Seamen's Union lost no time in getting even with the coastal shopowners. They…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Seamen's Union has been deregistered and has not even troubled to put up a formal defence. What is to follow? There is already talk of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A wireless messaged from the German steamer Vaterland reports that she is following a drifting airship which is 20 miles to the westward of Ushant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The German steamer Vaterland has wirelessed that she has picked up the American balloon Roger the Third to the west of Ushant. The crew has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The position in the seamen's dispute remains, unaltered. The Monaro is still tied up, and no move has been made to shift her cargo. The wharf laborers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A S.O.S. message has been received from the Union Company's steamer Flora which states that the engines are damaged and she is at the mercy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to a dispute over log entries of men absent from watch who attended a stop-work meeting the Canberra did not sail on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Gloucester, Massachusetts, states that 14 of the crew of the fishing schooner Rex were drowned when that Vessel was rammed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire broke out at 9 o'clock this morning on the steamer Canberra, which is lying at the foot of Kingstreet. The blaze spread all over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A crisis has developed, at Mort's Dock over the union boycott of the steamer Hunter, of the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's fleet. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Marine Cotirt Inquiry yesterday into the mysterious disappearance of the ketch, Lialeeta, it was alleged that before the boat left Launceston on…
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