Speeding Up. Atlantic Steamer Services. London, July 6
The North German Lloyd liner Bremen has returned to bremen from Southampton, where she has been in dry dock, It is reported that the liner…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
328 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 17
Steamer Afire Abandoned in Indian Ocean. Capetown, July 12
The steamer Cadwallen, hound for Australia with a cargo of coal, caught fire in two holds 500 miles from Durhan…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →First Flight Home Made Plane Wrecked
Nose-Diving after striking a hilltop at the take-off Auckiand's first home-made aeroplane was completely wrecked on Wednesday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific Explosion Chinese City Wrecked, Casualties Not Knoyn, London, July 16
News has reached here that the explosion of a power magazine on Friday, in the ancient walled city of Yunnan Fu, capital of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Ashore. Tongariro Needs Assistance Perim, July 17
The British steamer Tongariro, from Bowen to London, went ashore five miles south-east of Rasalara. She is not taking any water aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Derby Resident. Missing From Steamer Baradine. London. July 18
Percy Walton Cooper, 54, belived to be a retired builder from orby, a passenger on the Baradine from Australia went to a bathroom…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Afire Abandoned in Indian Ocean. Capetown, July 12
The steamer Cadwallen, bound for Australia with a cargo of coal, caught fire in two holds 500 miles from Durban…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Terrific Explosion Chinese City Wrecked. Casualties Not Knoyn. London, July 16
News has reached here that the explosion of a power magazine os Friday, in the ancient walled city of Yunnan Fu, capital of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Steamer with Munitions. Report Denied by Shipping Co. Berlin
The Danzig correspondent of the Communistic paper, "Red Flag," alleges that the North German Lloyd steamer, Falke, left Poland for China…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Startling Explosions German Oxygen Factory Wrecked. Resident's Panic Stricken. Berlin, July 24
A burst acetylene container in a large oxygen factory in North Berlin, started a serious explosion of oxygen holders and created a panic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Derby Resident. Missing From Steamer Baradine. London, July 18
Percy Walton Cooper, 51 believed to be a retired builder from crby, a passenger on the Baradine from Australia went to a bathroom…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer Held Up. Inter-union Quarrel
A farcical situation has arisen in Lyttelton (N.Z.), where the steamer Canopus is held up owing to a dispute, which originated in a fracas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sawmill Wrecked Boiler Explodes
The Balook Sawmill, near Traralgon (Vic.), owned by Hutchinson Bros., was wrecked on Monday morning when a boiler exploded. All that was left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World's Largest Lifeboat
A splendid addition to the fleet of lifeboats of the Royal National Life Boat Institution was made recently by the launch from the yard of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disturbance on Steamer. English Ex-m.p. Assaulted Migrants Angry
Riotous scenes among a section of the passengers caused a sensation on the liner Bendigo at Fremantle on Wednesday, following tho publication of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sea Tragedy. Tug Rams Steamer, Four Officers and Fourteen Men Missing London, Aug 18
Thirty milos from the Humber mouth, at 3 o'clock this morning, the ocean-going Tug, Ring's Cross, collided amidships…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spanish Steamer Sunk Disaster in Humber. 18 Members of Crew Missing. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London
When 30 miles from the Humber mouth, a tug collided with a Spanish steamer and sank her in six minutes. The crew jumped into the water and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dead Penguins. Hundreds Washed Ashore. Capetown, Aug. 23
Dead penguins by the hundreds were washed ashore on the South-west Coast in good condition as a result of an epidemic causing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sea Tragedy. Tug Rams Steamer. Four Officers and Fourteen Men Missing. London, Aug. 18
Thirty miles from the Humber mouth, at 3 o'clock this morning, the ocean-going Tug, King's Cross collided amidships…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Continental Express Wrecked Ten Bodies Recovered. Big List of Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Cologne
The Paris-Warsaw express jumped the rails whilst travelling at a fast rate. The engine and seven carriages, including a dining…
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