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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
87 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 5
Divers, after three months of hazardous work off the treacherous Donegal coast, for private salvors, have recovered portion of £1,000,000 in gold…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY, Friday. — A large whale, estimated to be 60ft. in length, was struck by the Manly ferry steamer Barragoola. After it had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Mr. W. Scruby, lessee of Spilsby Island, has taken to Port Lincoln a lifebuoy inscribed with the words, Vivid, Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A [?] planned by some Melbourne School teachers ended dramatically for an engaged couple at Wilson's Promontory Lighthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Superstition is wrecking thousands of lives, and bringing death, despair, and disnster into hundreds of others." With the solemnity of an invocation,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.— While a big pilot launch was being driven into a shed at South West Rocks, near Kempsey, a terrific explosion of petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British steamer Millpool, 4218 tons, with a cargo of wheat from Montreal to Liverpool, foundered off the Newfoundland banks on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Saturday. — When the tailshaft of the coastal steamer, Erina, broke off at Wollongong yesterday the crew rigged up sails and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SYDNEY, Saturday. — When the tailshaft of the coastal steamer, Erina, broke off at Wollongong yesterday the crew rigged up sails and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pounded by a fairly heavy swell the Danish motor ship Victoria, which went aground near Porpoise Head on Friday night, is to-day in an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four members of a family, including a baby aged 18 months, were buried under bricks and wreckage at Willoughby, when a strong gust of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Government's metal steamer Bombo, valued at £26,000, was almost wrecked in Woolloomooloo Bay when boys…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A message received in Melbourne from the interstate vessel Kooyong states that she picked up wreckage seen by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Wreck age found off Rodondo Island yesterday was examined at Geelong to-day, and was found not to be part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—When the pilot of the plane Miss Launceston (Lieutenant Frewin) returned to Melbourne last night he said it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain's greatest social attempt to save marriages threatened with shipwreck begins on Wednesday, when the departmental committee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A whale, estimated to be between 40 and 50 feet long, was killed about 300 miles off Sydney Heads when the liner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The work of salvaging fittings and stores from the abandoned motorship Victoria, at Tunkalillo Beach, will be started this week, and about 20 men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—To make a further search for wreckage from the lost air liner Miss Hobart, another land search party left…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—To make a further search for wreckage from the lost air liner Miss Hobart, another land search party left…
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