Fireman Killed. Fight on a Steamer
The Commissioner of Police, Brisbane, has received a telegram from the Cairns police to the effect that John McCain, fireman on the steamer…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924
352 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 18
Bubonic Plague. Suspect at Thursday Island. Landed From Steamer. Sydney
Having put ashore at Thursday Island a native suspected of being infected with bubonic plague, the steamer Scottish Strath, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foundered. Timber Carrying Vessel. Sydney
While being towed from the Nambucca River to Port Macquarie, the river timber carrying vessel, Macksville, foundered off Scott Head…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plague Precaution Steamer Quarantined. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Having put ashore at Thursday Island a native suspected of being infected with bubonic plague, the steamer Scottish Strath, which arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Fares. Reductions in Queensland
An important reduction in passenger fares between Brisbane and North Queensland ports has been announced by the interstate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On a Reef. Steamer in Dangerous Position
On Monday last a radio message was received in Brisbane from Port Mores. by intimating that the Vacuum Oil Company's steamer Pruth had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dixmude's Fate. the Wreckage Located. Two Bodies Found. London, Jan. 3
The wreckage of the Dixmude has been located under the sea south of Canmarco. Two bodies have been found off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Ashore Pruth Strikes Reef
Wireless news reached Sydney on Wednesday hat the steamer Pruth, from New York, had gone ashore on the Nateara Reef, outside Port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Pruth. Still Stranded
Macdonald Hamilton and Company, the Brisbane agents for the steamer Pruth, which grounded on a reef near Port Moresby, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Distress. Schooner Water-logged. Vancouver (B.c.), Dec. 27
Nows has been received in San Francisco that the schooner Eric well known in the Australian trade and now on a voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →More Smallpox. Case on Steamer Sussex
The steamer Sussex, from Calcutta for Wellington, which called off Thursday Island, on Sunday afternoon to pick up an inner route pilot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Valuable Bangle. Lost on Steamer Zealandia
A gold bangle with 103 diamonds set in platinum on it, and valued at £250, was reported by Mr. Walder, a passenger by the Zealandia, to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rum Smugglers. Seizure of British Schooner. Release Asked For. New York, Jan. 3
The United Press Association's correspondent at Washington learns that the British Government has made formal representations against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Yellow Flag. Steamer Eastern Quarantined. Smallpox Outbreak
The steamer Taiyman, of the Australian Oriental Line, arrived in Sydney on Sunday from Hongkong, flying the yellow flag…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chinese Pirates British Steamer Looted. Surprise Attack. SHANGHAI. Dec. 28
Reuter's Hongkong correspondent states that the British steamer Hydrangea, when proceeding to Swatow from Hongkong, was pirated on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Violent Gales. Black Sea Swept. American Steamer Founders London, Dec 30
Reuter's Constantinople correspondent reports that violent gales greatly damaged shipping in Turkish waters particularly in the Black…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Houses Wrecked. Storm on This Clarence. Cattle Killed
The Coaldale district, on the Clarence River, was visited by a violent storm on 27th ult. On a strip three miles wide not one homestead escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Position of Wreckage. No Confirmation. London, Jan. 4
Reuter's Paris correspondent states that the Ministry or Marine has hitherto had no confirmation in regard to the position of the wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lost Dixmude Bodies and Wreckage Found (Reuter's Cables.) London, Thursday Night
Wreckage of the French airship Dixmude has been located under the sea at South Canmargo. Two bodies, have been found off Ampexado…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Steamer. Damage on the Leitrim. London, Jan. 5
News comes from Malta that the steamer Leitrim, bound to Dunkirk and London from Rockhampton and Brisbane, reports a fire on the…
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