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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
296 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 15
A Los Angeles message says that it is estimated that between 200 and 500 lives were lost in a break of the St. Francis reservoir dam in the San Francisquity Canyon, 45 miles north of Los Angeles, on Tuesday, sending a wall of water rushing to the sea. The dam broke without warning, due…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The firsts mail utilising aeroplanes to link up with steamers on both sides of the Atlantic arrived to-day in 14 days from Buenos Aires instead of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Coast Steamship Company's steamer Wandana was delayed on Wednesday afternoon under unusual circumstances (says the "Register")…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coast Steamship Company's steamer Wandana was delayed on Wednesday afternoon under unusual circumstances (says the "Register")…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Dutch unsinkable lifeboat named Schuttvaer, 21ft. long, the result of 13 years of experimentation, has left Westminster Bridge for New York via…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →James Makenna, a fireman on the U.S.A steamer Easterling, was stabbed in the chest last night during a brawl aboard the ship. Another…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the Wilhelmsen freighter Yarra was beached at Gizo after having been gutted by fire she had on board a cargo of zinc slabs and silver-lead from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars of how three Chinese were shanghied on board the British steamer Yoseric show that according to the story told in court three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight men were lost when the Hull trawler Lord Devonport was wrecked on Hoy Island (Orkneys). The waves pounded the vessel, which lay helpless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A thrilling story has been brought by the rescue ship Kildalkey from Kerguelen. On February 12 the French sealing factory ship Logere…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Bango[?] (Maine) message reported on Tuesday that a Canadian airplane searching for Captain Hinchcliffe sighted what is believed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How the lives of between 50 and 60 passengers on board the coastal steamer Wandana were endangered through the action of a fireman on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Illawarra Company's steamer Merimbula is ashore on the south coast. The vessel left Sydney at 5.15 o'clock on Monday afternoon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The interstate liner Katoomba berthed at Pt. Adelaide to-day with her flag flying half mast in respect to the death of Joseph Patrick Toal (53), a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A San Francisco message says that two United States destroyers and a mine layer are searching west of Honolulu for the steamer British Hussar, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The American ship Steelmaker, bound from Noumea to Honolulu, was wrecked on Mitchell Reef, Ellice Islands, yesterday. The crew is not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from the vessel Steelmaker which went aground on Mitchell Reef, states that the ship is twothirds of its length on the reef. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from the vessel Steelmaker, which went aground on Mitchell Reef, states that the ship is two-thirds of its length on the reef. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Very little hope is now held out of salving the steamer Merimbula, which was wrecked about 10 miles north of Point Perpendicular, on the south…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Very little hope is now held out of salving the steamer Merimbula, which was wrecked about 10 miles north of Point Perpendicular, on the south…
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