Steamer Arrives
Tinonee, July 6tn. 1872: The steamer arrived at Taree on Wednesday. 3rd July, 1872. Her passengers were: Rev. Father Celleti…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
40 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Wrecked Airliner Four Bodies Recovered Sydney
A cable received regarding the Dutch airliner crash stated that four bodies have been recovered, namely, Mrs. Mijnlieff Leonard, Lee Learoyd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Fitzroy Recalled. Mr. Olaf Johansen, One of the Three Survivors, Dies
The death occurred at his borne in Sydney on Saturday, about noon, of Mr. Olaf Johansen, from a heart attack, probably augmented by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Fitzroy Recalled. Mr. Olaf Johansen, One of the Three Survivors, Dies
The death occurred at his home in Sydney on Saturday, about noon, of Mr. Olaf Johansen, from a heart attack, probably augmented by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Tug. Insurance Claim. Atlantic's Story Told in Court
In the Supreme Court on Monday before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers and a jury, the hearing was begun of a suit in which Rupert Mills Fletcher…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Idant Wrecked. Crew Safe
Caught by seas and tide as she was crossing the bar at Camden Haven on Wednesday, the coastal steamer Idant (121 tons) smashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deep-sea Wonders Remarkable Specimens Washed Ashore
Mr. Percy Stammwitz, a natural history expert on the staff of the Natural History Museum South Kensington, London,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Doepel Aground
Whilst attempting to cross out for Sydney on Monday morning the North Coast S. N. Company's steamer, Doepel, grounded on the crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy German Losses. 3000 Bodies Washed Ashore Friday Afternoon
London, Thursday: Three thousand dead Germans have been washed up on the eastern shores of Oslo Fiord. The invaders also lost great quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship Washed Ashore. When Towline Snaps
A coastal vessel of 513 tons was being towed along the New South Wales coast to Sydney on Sunday night when the tow-line broke in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.c.s.n. Steamer Aground
While being towed to Sydney by another steamer a North Coast vessel broke loose when near Newcastle and drifted ashore at Nobby's Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crossed Bar Against Signal. Captain's Story at Wreck Inquiry
The master of the coastal steamer Idant, which foundered at Camden Haven on March 13, admitted at the COurt of Marine Inquiry on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Hospital at Ostend Blown to Bits. Doctors, Nurses and Patients Killed. Bombers Eyen Prop Incendiary Bombs on Wreckage
King Leopold of the Belgiums is reported to have informed President Roosevelt of the deliberate bombing of Germans of the American hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maianbar Wreck. Sold at Auction for £700
The steel twin-screw steamship Maianbar, lying near Newcastle, where she ran ashore on May 5, was sold at auction on Tuesday at the rooms of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ship Ashore. Sydney
A message from Brisbane states that the United States cargo ship of 3500 tons from San Francisco, ran ashore on a Pacific island yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Banana Room Wrecked by Explosion
On Wednesday morning last residents of West Kempsey were startled when a loud explosion shattered the calm of an otherwise peaceful day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have, painful corroboration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the fact that road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes
In three days recently seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the fact that…
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