Severe Storm in North Coast District Houses Wrecked and People Injured
Houses were unroofed, and blown down, telephone wires broken, and several persons injured when the worst storm for years struck the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936
104 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 6
Halse's Crash With Victory In Sight Big Air Race Leading Flier's Plane Wrecked Neck and Neck Finish Johannesberg, September 30
With little more than four hours flight to victory, Captain S. S. Halse, after leading all the way in the Portsmouth-Johannesberg air race, crashed near Salisbury to-day. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Aground Sydney
A message received in Sydney by the agents for the Nimoda, which went ashore on [?] Roof, Princess Chariollo Bay, North Queensland, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.s. Nambucca Fine New Wooden Steamer
The Nambucca, a hardwood steamer of 500 toss, the latest addition to the fleet of the North Coast Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., was officially…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chartering Steamer for Ex-a.i.f. Passengers R.S.L. Executive Declines to Co-operate. Sydney
The State executive of the R.S.L. has declined to co-operate in a proposal for the chartering of a steamer to take oxA.I.F. passengers, at £135 each return,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Missing Fliers Found Crew Picked Up by Steamer
The Croydon Monspar, Lord Sempill's machine, which had been missing for two days, landed on Seringapatam Reef, about 600 miles west of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHIRLWIND Camp Wrecked GRAFTON
Two fonts, including the poles and contents, were tessed 10 feet in the air, when a Whirlwind struck a camp occupied by forest workers at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lost Overboard Deckhand of Steamer NEWCASTLE
When the steamer Dumosa reached port from Sydney last night the police were informed that Harold Lohmuller, 28, a dockhand, and native of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fireball Wrecks Houses ADELAIDE
A FIREBALL at night wrecked three houses and demolished a shed in Kintore-avenue, Kilburn, a suburb of Adelaide. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Ablaze Crew Help Firemen SYDNEY
Members of the crew and wharf laborers had to fight a fire which broke out on the steamer Marella, berthed at No 16 Wharf, Pyrmont, early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No News of Schooner Sydney
Gower C. Wilson, who set out for Lord Howe Island in an auxiliary schooner from Sydney last Sunday afternoon, has not yot arrived at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hit a Whale Steamer Damaged Anxious Voyage Sydney
When the British freighter, Jivington Court, arrived in Sydney to-day, officers told of the anxious' time they had for three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabin Boy the Only Survivor in Atlantic Wreck London, Nov. 9
A 17-year-old cabin boy, named Roethke, was the only member of the crew of 40 of the German motor ship, Isis, which foundered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Ships Searching for Schooner Planes to Be Asked to Help
Eight vessels are searching in the Tasman for the missing auxiliary cruiser, Viking, which is thought to be drifting. Three vessels yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Manly Ferry Steamer Fire Death of Another Victim Sydney
Sidney Tight, aged 44, one of the five men rescued from the Bellubera, the Manly ferry steamer which caught fire, died to-day, making the second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lugger Wrecked Captain Saved Mails DARWIN
The lugger Chantress was wrocked Point when bringing a cargo of 200 buffalo hides from Alligator River to Darwin. It was beached at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Searched Paris, November 27
The Spanish Insurgents stopped and searched the French steamer the Ville de Bastia, off Cape Oriecal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trawler Wrecked Only One Survivor LONDON, Dec. 2
The 36 tons Lowestoft trawler, Girl Norah, was caught in a storm to-day off the French coast, and ran aground between Calais and Gravelines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Anger Steamer Fire and Sunk MOSCOW, December 20
The Society to-day confirms the report at which there is great popular indignation, that a Spanish rebel warship set on fire and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russian Steamer Set on Fire and Sunk Act of Spanish Rebel Warship (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MOSCOW
The Soviet to-day confirms reports, at which there is great popular indignation, that a Spanish rebel warship set on fire and sunk the Russian…
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