Tasman Flight Disaster. Lost Heroic Airmen. Flight Evidently Ends in Tragedy. Anxious Search by Steamer and Aeroplane
Cable and wireless news from New Zealand shows that the Dominion has been deeply moved by what is now…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
329 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 17
Lost Overboard. From N.Z. Steamer. Newcastle
During the voyage of the steamer Karetu across the Tasman Sea, which arrived in Newcastle this morning, a seaman was lost overboard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sixteen Killed Twenty Seriously Injured. Explosion Wrecks Berlin Residential. BERLIN, Jan. 4
A mysterious explosion early this morning occurred at a house in Berlin, in which there were many occupants. who were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Disastrous Explosion Wreck of German Residential What Police Investigation Revealed. Berlin, Jan. 9
Police investigations of the disastrous explosion on the 4th Instant revealed that the basement of the tenement in which 16 wore killed and 20…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Plane Seen. Crew of Steamer Kaiwarra Emphatic
Several members of the crew of the Union Company's cargo steamer [?]warra, which has reached Sydney, declared that they saw the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Adrift Privations of Crews. Rescued by Canadian Transporter
A story of the privations and hardships endured by the crew of the schooner Santa Rosa, which was adrift in a sinking condition 400…
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A demonstration was given at London Docks recently of a ship's lifeboat which is reversible, unsinkable, self-emptying, and cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schooner Adrift Privations of Crews. Rescued by Canadian Transporter
A story of the privations and hardships endured by the crow of the schooner Santa Rosa, which was adrift in a sinking condition 400…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Union Challenge Accepted. Lighthouse Steamer to Sail
Commenting on the statement of the secretary of the Victorian Seamen's Union (Mr. O'Neill) that the lighthouse steamier Lady Loch would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stokers Scared Companion Exercises Boxing Prowess. Steamer Held Up. Hobart
The steamer Allara is held up at Hobart, due to the absence of six stokers. It appears that one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Aground Attempt at Floating Fails. Newcastle
Brown's tug, Champion, has been striving, all the morning to got the vessel, Alien, off the bank at Port Stephens. The tug managed to turn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Refloated. Steamer Allyn River
The coastal steamer Allyn River from Sydney to Newcastle on Tuesday which sprang a leak when on a voyage and was beached at Barrenjocy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Panic on Steamer. Wrecked in Terrific Gale. Stampede for Lifeboats SHANGHAI, Jan. 19
A panic occurred on board the steamer Haiu-wah when she struck a rook and sank during a terrific gale outside Hongkong…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Washed Ashore Legs and Buttocks of a Man Sydney
The legs and buttocks of a man were washed ashore at Bronte this morning on the feet were boots and socks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liner Ashore. Off Florida Coast. Passengers Transferred. New York. Jan. 20
The Dollar liner President Garfield is in no immediate danger after running aground solidly fore and aft on Mantanilla shoal, cast of pt. Jupiter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sprang a Leak Coastal Steamer Beached.just Out of Dock. Sydney, Tuesday
The stemer Allyn River, a wellknown coastor reached Broken Bay this morning' leaking badly. Her master, Captain Redgrove,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tornado in Newcastle District Wreckage at Waratah and Mayfield
About 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a tornado left a trail of destruction in its wake across Waratah and Mayfield. Roofs were either blown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Challenge Accepted. Historical Records. Lighthouse Steamer to Sail. Important Documents Missing. Science Congress Motion
Commenting on the statement of the secretary of the Victorian Seamen's Union (Mr. O'Neill) that the lighthouse steamer Lady Loch, would The Science Congress at Hobart decided to urge the Commonwealth Government to make provision at Canberra for the safe…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ANTI-AUSTRALIAN Communists Condemned. Wrecked Labour Movement. HOBART
The General Secretary of the A.W.U., Mr. Grayndler, M.L.C., said to-day that all he had predicted three years ago in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Running Rifles Cantonese Attack Steamer. Shanghai, Jan. 27
The Czecho-Slovakian steamer Praga, on its voyage rom Manila to Tsingtao, was attacked by a Cantonese gunboat off the Shautung…
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