On the Seas. British Submarine Captures a German Steamer
The Admiralty reports that one of our submarines in the North Sea, on Friday, captured the German steamer Battavier. The crew abandoned the…
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Your Own Lifeboat
"Carry your own lifeboat," is the motto of an Italian inventor, G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probably the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canadian Ship Ashore. All on Board Rescued
A ship with 546 returned wounded soldiers aboard, is ashore on the Canadian coast. All were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An American Victim of the "U" Boats a Tank Steamer Sunk
The sinking of the American tanker Campana, and the capture of four naval guards and the captain, by a German submarine, is announced by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Strikes Mine
Five Americans were drowned when the steamer City of Athens struck e mine close to Capetown. Four of the crew and ten other passengers were lost in sight…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Through Many Wrecks
Charlie Gunn, a well-known Liverpool seaman, has been through more big wrecks than any other man alive. He was on board the "Titanic" when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Norwegian Steamer Sunk
The Norwegian steamer Tuldal was submarined off the French Coast. The crew was rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Your Own Lifeboat
"Carry your own lifeboat," is the motto of an Italian inventor, G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probably the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer's Race with a Waterspout
Waterspouts are not, perhaps, as dangerous as they appear to be, or as sea captains used to think them, but they are by no means harmless, especially to craft of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wreck of a Mail Steamer
The steamer Port Kemble was sunk off the New Zealand coast as the result of an internal explosion. All lives were saved. All the mails, including…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Coastal Steamer Wrecked Three Men Die from Exposure
A coastal steamer, supposed to be the Neerong, has foundered off Nora Head. It is feared all hands have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest by Wire. Steamer Sunk
A coastal steamer, supposed to be the Nerong, foundered off North Head. It is feared all hand are lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Steamer Destroyed by Explosion. Some English Mails Lost. Supposed Foul Play. A Foreign Fireman "Talks"
The liner Port Kembla has been sunk by an internal explosion on the New Zealand coast. All hands were saved. The Australian mails were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lost Steamer Nerong
The secretary of the Navigation Department received a telegram from Captain William Newton, Deputy-Superintendent of Navigation at Newcastle, concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Adelaide Steamer Released. Sydney
The Adelaide Company's steamer Dilkera, which was at Newcastle for a considerable time, passed Sydney heads to-day on her way south…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Steamer on Fire
A mysterious fire was discovered on Sunday morning in the after hold of the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Indarra, lying at Darling Harbor. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Italian Steamer Sunk. Carrying Greek Officials. an Outcome of Espionage
Reuters' Athens correspondent says that a German submarine torpedoed the Italian steamer Cart, and also sank several lifeboats. Fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospitals for Boots. Millions Saved Fhom the Wreckage of War
Few people at home, said an Army Service captain to the writer, have any idea of the amazing work of salving the wreckage of battle that is going…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Wrecked Steamers
Las Palmas, a Spanish ship, brought 45 survivors of the Italian vessel, Caprea, which, with a most important , cargo of explosives, was set…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Telegrams Sydney, Monday Evening. a Collier Wrecked
The collier Bellambi, which left Sydney on the 5th October, struck the main reef, near Parre St. Vincent, near Noumea, five days later,…
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