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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
64 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 4
Newcastle, August 16.—Captain Golden of the ketch Seafarer, which ran aground yesterday after being adrift for 14 days, threatened to seek police aid to recover equipment and fittings allegedly stolen from the vessel. The ketch was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Perth.— The hopper barge J. B. Webb from England via Batavia to Melbourne, ran ashore 55 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AIR VIEW of the 950-ton British hopper barge J. P. W.lb, cirtoixnd on a stretch of rugged coastline near Lancel in Island, about 55 [?] north of Fremantle. The barge way on its way to Melbourne from England, via Batavia. The barge has been abamoned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane— Captain J. W. Herd said that £35,000 in gold ingots he had unsuccessful tried to salvage from the wreckage of the Qantas Drover plane which crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newwcastle. — A middle-aged man, wet, cold and exhausted, was rescued from a disabled 38ft. ketch off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne—Two giant mobile cranes are being used to clear the wreckage from the Serviceton Station where two expresses collided yesterday as pictured…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Melbourne—Two giant mobile cranes are being used to clear the wreckage from the Serviceton Station, where two expresses collided yesterday as pictured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord Howe Island — The ketch Bachelor's Wife, in which the American (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Havana (Cuba), Four carloads of masked, heavily armed men wrecked the printing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne.—A man at Red Cliffs, near Mildura, has to wreck the inside of his home because a swarm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALL THAT is left of the starboard motor of the Dove aircraft which crashed on Monday near Kalgoorlie, killing seven, is inspected by Constable Wilson, of Kalgoorlie. This motor was flung some distance ahead of the general wreckage. The Civil Aviation Department has ordered the grounding of all de Havilland Dove aircraft in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hobart. — The missing 54-ft. fishing vessel Neptune was found near Eddystone Point, on thc east…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney.—A violent 10-minute windstorm wrecked homes and buildings at Peak Hill, in central N.S.W. last night, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage. Six houses were unroofed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, November 8—A wealthy Australian sportsman, Frederick McEvoy (44) and his French wife, Claude Stephani, (30), were drowned after their yacht,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Adelaide—Robby's Aircraft Limited lost a second Tiger Moth plane in eight days, when one crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney—Unconsciousness for two hours in a mass of twisted steel was the pight of James Wall (25), of North Terace, Adelaide, when a semi-trailer he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ALL-ROUNDER, Keith Miller wrecked the West Indies' hopes of a reasonable score in their first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brisbane.—A 60 foot ketch is missing on the 523 mile trip between Brisbane and Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aero Club instructor Bruce Campbell left yesterday with the club engineer to bring the club's crashed plane by road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coonabarabran. — Police have taken dogspikes they found near the line after a diesel train derailment…
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