Train Beaten. Steamer's Trip From Brisbane
A new record for a passage between Brisbane and Sydney was made by the Orient liner Orama, which entered the Heads on Saturday morning last…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
123 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 7
Rye Life-boat Disaster The Official [?]ing LONDON
the fourth Board [?] inquiry into the Rye [?] its report [?] that probably the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale Strikes Sydney Terrific Blow Last Night Several Deaths Reported Steamer Adrift in Harbor Sydney
After a day of [?] Sydney was swept by a violent southerly last night. The wind attained a [?]city of over [?] miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Bunkers Burning Steamer Arrives NEWCASTLE
The steamer [?] arrived all Newcastle yesterday the Gulf of Mexico with her bunker coal on fire Frantic efforts are being made to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Drifts for 29 Days
London. — A Norwweglan steamer. which does not carry wireless, was lowed 350 miles to Aberdeen after drifting helplessly in the Atlantic [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mammoth Wave. Damages Steamer Majestic
New York. — The liner 'Majestic' docked 15 hours late. It was reported a mammoth wave crashed over her yesterday and killed a cook,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pyrmont Collision. Tug and Steamer
A collision occurred at Pyrmont this morniug between the tug Heroine and the steamer Calulu. The impact was only slight, and very little…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coaster Wrecked Chinese Crew Drowned SHANGHAI
The search for survivors of the ill-fated Chinest coaster, [?] Wah, which sank outside Hong Song early yesterday, continues fruitlessly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Springs Leak. Arrives in Port in Sinking Condition. Sydney
The steamer Allyn River, the well known coaster, arrived at Broken Bay this morning in a sinking condition, having sprung a leak after leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suits for Shipwrecks
Since the tragedy of the Titanic hundreds of ideas and inventions have been brought before shipping companies and the Board of Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off the Heads Coal Collier Founders Seven of the Crew Are Missing Six Rescued by Pilot Steamer "A Sudden Lurch ... And In the Water" Sydney
The collier, "Anne M. Miller," foundered about two miles off Sydney Heads shortly before eight o'clock last night. Six members of the crew of 13 were rescued by the pilot steamer Captain Cook. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Coast Country Swept By Big Flood Cannibalism! Wrecked on Ice Floe Smugglers' Adventure HELSINGFORS
The newspaper "Hafvudstad Bladet" reports that four suspected alcohol smugglers were shipwrecked on ice in the Gulf-of Finland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Kanowna Ashore' Water in Engine Room Passengers Transhipped SYDNEY
The inter-State steamer 'Kanowna' which left Sydney on Saturday for Fremantle and intermediate ports, ran ashore last night on Clift Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner "Kanowna" Ashore Off Wilson's Promontory Wife's Tragic Find Injured and Shot Peculiar Fatality PERTH
William Thomas May, farmer and contractor, of Young's Siding, was found dead in the front door of his house with the top of his head blown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegrams. Founding of the Steamer "Kanowna." Sydney
The steamer Mackarra." with passengers and crew of the steamer Kanowna arrived in Melbourne last night. J. C. Cain, a saloon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer in Distress Off Queensland Coast SYDNEY
A radio was received in Sydney last hight to the effect that the steamer Arafura is in distress off the Queensland coast, as a result of propellor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Complete Wreck 'Plane N[?] Dives CAPETOWN
Malcolm Campbell was returning from Verneauk Pan by aeroplane, when be crashed. He sustained injuries [?]sitating stitches in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smashed on Rocks. Fishing Boat Wrecked
The fishing boat Wanderer was smashed to pieces on the rocks at Coff's Harbor early on Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Happy Rich Girl's Romance Divorce Court Wreck
The woman who used to be called "the richest little girl in the world" has discovered once more that £60,000,000 is no insurance…
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