Steamer A shore At Five Islands
The steamer Brisbane left Port Kembla at 11.30 today with a cargo of 1460 tons of coal for Melbourne, and at about 11.45 was noticed stranded…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911
17 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Brisbane Ashore. and Floated Again
As briefly stated in our last issue, the steamer Brisbane, one of the Melbourne Steamship Company's line, left Port Kembla at about 11.45 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Trip to the Solomons Or. Two Months on an Island Steamer. Article I.
This narrative must begin, at the beginning. In Charles Dickons' story of "The Cricket on the Hearth," he says, "If I am to tell a story I must begin at…
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We have been six charming days at son, during which every experience worth recalling and relating has been exchanged by the now happy family…
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"Awake!" cries the Persian poet, "for Morning, in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Pepesala (Russell Islands). Paper Iv
Dr. Quaiffe, son of the respected medico of that name, who resides at Woollahra, Sydney, came on board at Rendova, and look Mr. Meeks' vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper V. Baniki, or "The Hill Top."
The phrase, "The voyage of life," is such a common one that it has lost its significance, at any rate, to the untravelled man. Hut its appropriateness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Or. Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper' Vi. Gavutu and Tulagi
We arrived at Gavutu early one morning, and I felt my heart go out to it with a bound. Indeed, throughout the trip I have felt like a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Vii. Guadalcanar
Gallego, Mondana's chief pilot, reported in his journal of this island, that it would probably take months to sail right around it. This, of course…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the Solomons; Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Viii. Santa Cruz
After steaming from Guadaleanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…
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News reached Sydney on Thursday afternoon that the Illawarra and South Coast S.N. Company's steamer had gone ashore Moruya…
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THE Illawarra and South Coast S.N. Company's steamer Moruya, which as stated in last issue went ashore at Pebbly Beach on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Metal Quarry. Government Purchases Kiama Kiama Road Metal Company's Property. Also the Steamer Kiama
THE Minister for Works (Mr. Griffith) announced on Saturday last that, acting on the recommendation of two of the senior officers of…
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The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Rosedale, which left Nambuces for Sydney on Friday last week, has not been heard of since. A quantity of wreckage,…
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After all the women and children were gone, I began to think it was time to take my own passage. Nothing, I hope, would have induced me to leave the sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wreckage Sighted off Kiama Number of Floating Cases
Captain L. C. Roy, of the Melbourne S.S. Company's steamer K[?]punda, on Monday morning reported to the Department of Navigation as follows :—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Brooklyn Wrecked at Crookhaven Heads
WITH her bottom ripped open, the coasting steamer Brooklyn, owned by the Nowra and Jervis Bay Shipping Company. lies a total wreck at the entrance to Crookhaven,…
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