Ship Runs Ashore Lost In Fog; All Crew Saved SYDNEY
THE North Coast Company's steamer Urana, 519tons, ran ashore in a heavy fog at the Old Bar, Manning River, last night and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
59 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 3
Water Was Cut Off While Theatre Was Wrecked SYDNEY
PERSONS responsible for the explosion which wrecked the Blayney Theatre at Blayney early on Saturday morning are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survivors Of Cutter Wreck
THE THREE SURVIVORS of the fihing cutter Rapid photographed on their return to Port Adelaide in the Sunbeam. From Left—A. Ward (Sunbeam crew), A. M.-Bird (Rapid), Mr. and Mrs. F. II arry (Rapid), and E. Boxer (Sunbeam)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Is Practical Joker Flying Doctor,s "Robin" Dr. Fenton Has Wrecked Four 'Planes Darwin
IF anything had happened to the Flying Doctorr (Dr. Clyde Fenton), every man, woman, and child from Charlotte Waters to Darwin, and from Hall's Creek to Camooweal, would have lost a personal friend, and the far-famed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured Man Goes Ashore
H.M.A.S. CANBERRA deviated from her course in making a dramatic dash to bring a critically injured petty officer to Outer Harbor. This picture shows the injured man being carried down the gangway to the ambulance, in which he was rushed to Keswick-Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japanese Given Base Wreck To Be Salvaged DARWIN
FOLLOWING negotiations between the Japanese Consul-General and the Commonwealth Government, permission has been granted for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crew's Struggle; Lugger Wrecked
BRISBANE, Monday.—After the lugger Koza was wrecked on the Flinders. Reef, about, 150 miles northeast of Townsville, early last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwreck Echo Big Claim By Owners CAPETOWN, November 24
A lawsuit arising out of the wreck of the motor vessel Winton with a cargo of South Australian wheat in Table Bay has begun…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Wrecked
PERTH, Wednesday.—The small coastal schooner Geraldton has been wrecked off Cape Baskerville. This brief message was received from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bishop Killed in Crash 'Plane Wreckage Found LONDON, December 8
THE headquarters of the Church Missionary Society announce that the Assistant Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan (the Right Rev…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ship Sinks, Crew Saved Italian Steamer To The Rescue (Special to "The Miner") CAIRO, December 8
The British freighter, Quarrington Court (6900 tons) foundered at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez, but the British crew of 35 was rescued by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Liner Wrecked Rescue Work Difficulties (Special to "The Miner") MANILLA, December 13
THE rescue of passengers on the American liner, President Hoover, which is wrecked on a reef off the coast of Formosa, is being made difficult by high seas arid strone winds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Wreckers" in Russia Appeal Rights Are Given (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, December 13
UNDER a legal rerorm "wreckers and terrorists" in Russia must in future receive a formal indictment 24 hours before their trial, says the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cigarettes in Steamer Big Seizure By Customs Officers SYDNEY
CUSTOMS officers have seized a large quantity of contraband cigarettes and cigarellos hidden in the Australian-Oriental liner Taiping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Man on the Bridge. by the Skipper of a Pleasure Steamer
The other day a man told me that be reckoned mine on the sort of job that would s[?] down to the ground. All I'll get to do was to go…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hero of a Wreck Seizure While Fishing QUEENSCLIFF
HERO of a wreck rescue 32 years ago, Mr: William Ferrier (57), a well-known fisherman, of Queenscliff, died…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A "Wreckless" Driver
Rudgil Smith, motor truck driver, of Memphis (U.S.A.), is credited with raving driven 600,000 miles, a distance equal it 24. trips around the. world,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Radio Expert Killed Steamer's Foremast Collapses SYDNEY, Friday. When the foremost of the control
When the foremast of the coastal steamer Paterson collapsed in Woolloomooloo Bay to-day, Roy Blanch, engineer of Cinesound News Review,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman And Youth Killed In Explosion Body Of Woman Blown Into Sea Houses Wrecked Melbourne
AWOMAN and a youth were blown 90 yards through the air and killed instantly, and two houses were wrecked when a magazine containing about 10 cases of gelignite exploded hear the Victorian Coal Mining…
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