Shipping Troubles the Steamer Ulooloo Is Now to Be Manned Sydney
Mr. J. Johnson, secretary of the Seamens Union, stated last night that the bosun had left the Ulooloo and the vessel will be manned as soon as the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
296 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 15
Shipping Troubles Men Refused to Sign on for the Steamer Barwon Trouble Settled Later. Sydney
Trounle arose over the signing j on of cooks for the stea,er Barwon which is now in Sydney. It is slated that the men in refusing to sign on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest News Issue. Desperate Stowaways on Steamer Jervis Bay an Appeal for Help Message Described As Incomprehensible (A.p.a. Message.) Colombo, June 20
The former Commonwealth liner Jervis Bay, which is approaching Colombo from Australia, has sent a wireless message to the warship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The White Bay Wreck Sold at Auction To-day Sydney
The wrecked White Bay as she lies on the Stockton beach was sold to-day at auction for £22 10/ to F. S. Bodrodean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Capsized Seaplane Towed Ashore Adelaide
Last evening a diver descended and cut the morning ropes of Wing-Commander Goble's capsized Australian seaplane in the Port River. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Capsized Seaplane Towed Ashore Adelaide
Last evening a diver descended and cut the mooring ropes of Wing-Commander Goble's capsized Australian seaplane in the Port River. It was…
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While gathering fish traps near Middle Head to-day a launch containing two men was caught by a swell and dashed against the rocks. One of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Airship Italia General Nobile Is Rescued His Leg Shockingly Broken When Rescue Airplane Landed 'Plane Takes Him to the Steamer Quest Wireless Signals Have Been Received Which May Be From Amundsen
Although the Italian airman, Major Maddalena, had dropped supplies to General Nobile and the members of his party, he failed to effect a landing. The latest news of the outcasts is given in a wireless message from the leader of a Swedish expedition, who effected a landing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipping No Vacancies to Be Filled on the Steamer Barwon Sydney
The Seamen's Union yesterday decided not to supply men to fill any, vacancy which may occur on the Adelaide Steamship Company's vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nobile's Party and Wrecked Airman No Prospect of Saving for Several Weeks No News of Amundsen (A.p.a. Message.) London, June 26
Oslo advices state that a wireless message from the steamer Quest says it will be impossible to save the remainder of General Nobile's party and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on a Steamer Damage to the Marella Singapore, June 26
A fire broke out in the bunkers of the passenger steamer Marella from Melbourne. The iron deck was duckled by the heat and the wooden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seaplane Wrecked in Tempestuous Seas Trawler Rescues Crew London, July 1
Forced down owing to engine trouble into the tempestuous seas west of Bardsley Island, off Carnarvon (Wales), the crew of four of a two-engined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smallpox on Steamer One of Crew Suffering Sydney
A case of illness aboard the Dutch steamer Nieuw Zeeland, which arrived at Brisbane, has been definitely diagnosed as smallpox. The patient is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Moth 'Plane Wrecked Occupants Jump Out and Escape Injury Sydney
A Moth 'plane was badly damaged when it crashed at Ryde yesterday. The machine landed safely on the Ermington gol[?] links, but when rising…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Gruiser Ashore in Halifax Dense Fog the Cause (A.p.a. Message.) Vancouver, July 3
A Halifax message says:—Steaming slowly into Halifax harbor in a dense fog on Monday, the British cruiser Dauntless crashed ashore well inside…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oilbunkers on Fire Steamer Beached in Thames (A.p.a. Message.) London, July 8
The steamer Carmarthenshire was descending the Thames when a serious fire was discovered in the oilbunkers. The ship had to be beached…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yacht Runs Ashore on Wrangell Island Passengers and Crew Believed to Be Safe (A.p.a. Message.) Vancouver, July 13
A message from Ketchikan (Alaska) says that the yacht Oaxaca, owned and sailed by Mr. Hancock, the backer of the Southern Cross airmen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner on Fiji Reef a Total Wreck (A.p.a. Message.) Suva, July 15
The schooner Malaya, formerly a British yacht, owned by a Fiji shipping company, was wrecked on Horseshoe Ree, in the Kora Sea, Fiji, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Ketch Capsized Crew Believed Drowned Auckland (N.Z), July 16
The ketch Isabella de Fraine capsized at Kokiahga, (New Zealand) on Saturday. The crew of eight is believed to be drowned. It is thought that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Immigration Many Nationalities Coming in French Steamer Fremantle
With the arrival of the French steamer Cephee last night it is claimed that a new record has bees established for the number of different…
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