Australia’s First Steamer
Australiaâs first steamer was the PS Sophia Jane, which arrived in Sydney Harbour on May 13 in 1831…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
58 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
Steamer Sold
A familiar steamer along the North Coast for many years past, the Orara passed up the Coast last week for probably the last time in these waters…
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SYDNEY. Thurs—A-large section of a launch washed up on Collaroy Beach this morning was painted with the same colours as…
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The wreckage of a twinengined plane found near Magpie Station, Yarrol, 85 miles from Monto (Q.), has…
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MELBOURNE, Sat—It has been established that the wreckage found last Tuesday, near Monto, is that of an American…
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LONDON, July 13.—A mutiny has broken out on board the American steamer William Carson on the high seas…
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LONDON, July 14.— Two women were downed and eight women and one man were injured when a 839 tons paddle steamer…
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LONDON, July 30.—Somerset bowlers, H. Hazell and J. Lawrence, who took 5 for 28 and 4 for 82, respectively, wrecked…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Naval headquarters have received a report from Darwin that the wreck found in Darwin Harbour…
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SYDNEY, Thursday..— The Kitchen in a house at Petersham was wrecked when a gas stove exploded. Two young women and three…
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LONDON, August 9— A 68-year-old American, Felix Brandsten, and a 44-year-old Finn, Ivor Heino, arrived at…
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Two men readied Falmouth (Cornwall) on Monday, after a 71-day, 4000-mile voyage in a converted ship's lifeboat the Atlantic from Miami…
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For many years a large framed photo of the first H.M.A.S. "Australia" has looked down on the doings in the general office of the Dungog…
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NEW YORK-Sept. 16—A three masted Portugese auxiliary fishing schooner, Gaspar, is presumed to have sunk in very high seas…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — The British sterner, Lochomar, 9124 tons, ran aground yesterday on Little Tainan island, in the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The motor ship Devare, bound from Sydney to Rabaul, was driven ashore 20 miles north of Port Macquarie…
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COPENHAGEN, October 2.—Forty-one people, including a British Woman, were rescued from the 1568 tons Polish steamer, Lech, which struck a mine and blew up in the Baltic yesterday…
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COPENHAGEN, Oct. 7.—After every available fire engine had been used to control a stem-to-stern blaze on the British…
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LONDON, October 15.—Officers of Scotland Yard’s special branch believe that the British air liner, Star Tiger, lost without trace in the Atlantic nine months ago, was destroyed by a parcel bomb posted by Jewish terrorist agents…
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LONDON, October 25.—Professional ghouls were trying to sabotage the work of the United Nations Organisation, said the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H. V. Evatt, at a ceremony commemorating United Nations Day…
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