Giant Liner in Gale
The Hamburg-American liner Hansa, once the Deutschland, queen of the seas, was the first transatlantic liner to dock in Manhattan on New Year's Day, after…
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Floods & storms, 1923
198 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 10
Germans in New Role Rescue Work at Sea Trawler in Gale British Crew in Peril LONDON
"The Dolly Mull" says that a crew of 40 from the British trawier Cambria, after terrible experiences in an Atlantic gale in which everything…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harbour Trust v. Flood Mitigation
Sir.—The information vouchsafed in yours of 2nd inst. that the closing of the south channel at Ash Island depends, not on whether this person or that considers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods in France Cattle Drowned Boats for Rescue Work LONDON
"The Times" Paris correspondent states that serious floods which have occurred in France are causing anxiety amongst the populace…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mindini a Total Wreck Abandoned on Mellish Reef Where Did Crew Spend the Night? Cyclone Working Through Fiji BRISBANE
The steamer Mindini, which went on the Mellish reef yesterday, has been abandoned, and is a total wreck. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Big Flood Thirty Years Ago
It is 80 years to-day since the greatest flood on record occurred in the Hunter River. Every town in the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Show Final Day Storm Overnight
The sweltering heat of yesterday culminated in a violent storm which broke over the whole of the Maitland district between five and six o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm at Greta Low Lands Flooded
Heavy rain started to fall in Greta at five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and continued to six o'clock, accompanied by thunder and lightning. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm in America
A message from Chicago reports that a storm, emerging from the south-west took 46 lives and injured 70 people, destroyed property of unestimated value,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in East Europe
The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that violent deluges have occurred in Macedonia, Southern Servia, and Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Over Storm Channel Concrete Bridge
A commencement has been made with the construction of the re-inforced concrete bridge over the storm-water channel at Nile-street, Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Hits Sydney Flooded Streets Lightning Causes Damage SYDNEY
Considerable damage was done by a violent storm that swept over Sydney and suburbs shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday. Deafening crashes of thunder,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm in Sydney Sydney
A severe thunderstorm occurred in Sydney and suburbs to-night. Just before six o'clock the sky became overcast, and shortly afterwards there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in Africa
It is reported from Capetown that extensive flooding in the Zambesi country has caused a serious situation. Railway communication has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Sailer in Storm
News has reached Sydney of the terrible experiences of the crew of the German sailing ship Landkirchen, in charge of Captain Hans Kaiser, who was in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Animals in Storms
I have board a story of a young artist who, after painting a picture of a horse facing a storm, was not satisfied with it, and, feeling that something was wrong,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Great Storm
English, Scottish, and Irish papers on the one tide, and American on the other, toll of an extraordinary storm which swept the Atlantic about Christmastime…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mountainous Waves Steamer in Gale S.O.S. Calls Heard Auckland (N.z.)
During a terrific gale on the voyage from Liverpool to Auckland the steamer Mahla received S.O.S. calls, but, owing to her wireless gear being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aeroplane in a Storm
A telegram from Ellerbe, North Carolina, states that Kirkwood, who left Pinehurst, on route for Asheville, in an aeroplane, piloted by James Cole, had a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Rain With Southerly Gale Co[?]r Weather Will Downfalls Continue?
Apparently the long drought has broken, for southerly winds are bringing showers and rainy skies. Newcastle people prepared for a…
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