Launch Picks Up Package Customs Suspect Steamer Changte BRISBANE
The Collector of Customs has received a report that a fast launch raced out from the coast near Cairns and circled the steamer Changte,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936
49 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 3
Launch Picks Up Package Customs Suspect Steamer Changte BRISBANE
The Collector of Customs has received a report that a fast launch raced out from the coast near Cairns and circled the steamer Changte,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →3 Killed on Steamer; 4 Injured (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, January 6
Three men were killed and four injured in an accident on board the British steamer Ulysses, 14,647 tons, which left Liverpool yesterday for…
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RABAUL, Wednesday.— Further portions of wreckage of the schooner Hermes which has been missing since November 10 have been washed up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Blow to Seamen Miners'Decision Wrecks Strike SYDNEY
The miners having overwhelmingly rejected the general strike proposal, interest is now centred in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage From Vessel (Special to "The Miner.")
PARIS, January 7.—Wreckage washed up near Milford Haven comfirms the fears that the Lowesto[?]l Drifter, Sore Breeze, which left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Search Delayed For Wrecked Liner (Special to "Thu Miner.") ALEXANDRIA, January 16
Two and a quarter hours elapsed between the accident to the flying boat, City of Khartoum, on December 31 and the beginning of the search…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Man on the Bridge. by the Skipper of a Pleasure Steamer
The other day a man told me that he reckoned mine was the sort of job that would suit him down to the ground. All I'd got to do was to go…
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Very reluctantly, because it is very distasteful to speak controversially in this matter and because it means saying unpleasant things about a…
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To the Editor, Sir.— I have no apologies to offer my friend, the Rev. W. W. F. Pratt, for voicing a protest against "empire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italian Steamer Evades "Arrest" Order
LONDON, February 3.—The Italian steamer Fedora, the "arrest" of which had been ordered by the Admiralty following a collision with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Confusion on Steamer N.Z. Vessel Struck Rock SYDNEY
Several of the passengers who wove aboard the New Zealand steamer, Kangatira, when she struck a rock near Wellington Harbor last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Confusion on Steamer N.Z. Vessel Struck Rock SYDNEY
Several of the passengers who were aboard v the New Zealand steamer, Rangatlra, when she struck a rock near Wellington Harbor last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Liner Wrecked in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, February 10.— The Imperial Airways liner, Artemis, hit an obstacle while taking off at Pietersburg to-day and was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Salvage Steamer Vincas
SYDNEY, Friday.—Efforts will be made to salvage the steamer Vincas, which broke away from the Paringa some months ago, and now lies, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion on Steamer Seven Italians Missing (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 15
The Cairo correspondent of the "Times" reports that the Italian tramp steamer Marchigriano, which was loaded with petrol for the Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked Boat Was Deserted Believed Stolen For Cruise
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Although two men have reported that they clearly saw a man on board the mystery yacht that crashed on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Clears Reef After Running Aground
PERTH, Wednesday.—The steamer Volsella, which ran aground on a reef outside the channel at Port Hedland on March 15, cleared the reef, and…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nudists Face Starvation Schooner Aground In Cuba HAVANA, April 17
The schooner Fleetwood, bound from Florida to the Virgin Islands to found a Nudist Utopia, went ashore on the western tip…
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