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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
189 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 10
Life savers on the South Steyne beach yesterday morning picked up two bottles containing messages purporting to have been written by members of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Norwegian motor ship Tricolor and the tug Hero ran aground on the rocks at Greenwick Point, in Sydney Harbor, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Mathieson, the director of navigation, received a radio message from the steamer Nirvana yesterday afternoon stating that she sighted a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain Mathieson, the director of navigation, received a radio message from the steamer Nirvana yesterday afternoon stating that she sighted a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is still some doubt as to the nature of the illness of the Lascar member of the crew of the Britishindia line steamer Woodarra, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On their arrival at Fremantle to-day overseas passengers were amazed to find that Chapman and Sutcliffe had been prevented from playing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the steamer Tahiti was one day out from San Francisco Captain Aldwe[?] was informed that Miss Hazel Cook, daughter of a San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three months ago Captain John Schuttervaer and two companions left Rotterdam to cross the Atlantic in a lifeboat. They had encountered severe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to Leary seas the schooner Elsie Mary, 130 tons, which left Gisborne for Auckland (in the North Island of New Zealand) at 8 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Because his overtures to a girl on board with whom he was infatuated were unsuccessful, William George Rogers (19), assistant steward on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Despite the disaster last November which wiped out half the manhood of Rye Harbor, the gallant little village is eager to man its new lifeboat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The vessel is embedded in sand off Gabo Island, where she ran ashore two years ago. All efforts to tow her off have failed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Canberra was caught by the tide while being moored at the Boundary-street wharf yesterday and crashing into the wharf, caused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Norwegian steamer Selje, of 6630 tons, foundered 120 miles from Port Philiip Heads last night after a collision with the steamer Kaituna,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Norwegian steamer Sel[?]e, of 6630 tons, foundered 120 miles from Port Phillip Heads last night after a collision with the steamer Kaituna,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Aeon, which arrived here this morning, carried on her decks two boats belonging to the Selje. When the Aeon was approaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The auxiliary fishing schooner Wanderer was dashed to pieces in the breakers in Coff's Harbor this morning. Five members of the crew got out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The vessel encountered heavy weather in the Atlantic Ocean when bound for Galveston in ballast and a rudder coupling broke. A jury rudder was fixed and sails set on the steamer. In three days 600 miles were covered and the vessel reached St. George (Bermuda)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fishing ketch May sprang a leak and sank in Bass Strait. The crew was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The P. and O. branch liner Borda called here to land 12 stowaways, aged from 19 to 23 years, who were found on board after the vessel left Port…
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