On Breakwater Iron Monarch Ashore Fight Against Gale Aground At Port Kembla SYDNEY
The steamer, Iron Monarch, was driven on to the northern breakwater of Port Kemble yesterday…
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Floods & storms, 1923
198 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 10
Severe Thunderstorm
The greatest thunderstorm in living memory raged over London from midnight on Monday night to seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, and over 50…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rushing Rivers in Streets Sensational Floods Cause Havoc in England LONDON. Monday
The abnormal heat-wave in England has been followed by torrential rains and floods, particularly at Birmingham, where the water is six feet deep. In the Hockley Brook district four houses collapsed. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water in Houses Wickham Street Floods
A letter was received by the Wickham Council last night, written on behalf of the residents of Lindus-street, stating that a year ago the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →(Published by Arrangement.) Breaking the Drought with Floods of Liquor
More than 500,000 counterfeit prescriptions each calling for a pint of whisky, were filled by New York City drug stores in the past five months,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Brewing Storm
The Berlin correspondent of the "Morning Post," states that a further sign of a brewing storm in Germany is a proclamation issued by the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bravest Act Heroic Captain Rescue In Storm LONDON
For the bravest act at sea in 1922 the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society has presented medals to Captain Shaw and six of the crew of the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Edition— Last Minute News Terrific Sea Like a Tidal Wave Sumatra Inquiry Worse Than Maitland Gale SYDNEY
The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the loss of the Sumatra heard further evidence to-day. George James Williams. Deputy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Difficulties Steamer Sends Out S.O.S. Steering Gear Gone Monadnock Bound for Newcastle in Gale BRISBANE
The steel screw vessel Monadnock, of 4275 tons, hound from Nauru to Newcastle, sent a wireless message late last night that she was in difficulties, owing to her steering gear having been carried away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Monadnoc. Buffeted by a Gale Brisbane
News of steamers in trouble has arrived with distressing frequency of late, and now another mishap has been witnessed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in China
A Pekin message reports that despatches from Anbui province state that a million people are homeless as the result of floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Damage West-end Flooding
The flooding which has taken place lately at the western end of Newcastle city by storm water from Hamilton municipality was considered by the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Hamlet" Without Ghost Lithgow Fiasco Storm Prevents Visit LITHGOW
Lithgow this afternoon staged "Hamlet" without a short. This was in connection with the hastily-arranged visit of Miss Ethet Campbell, from Durban…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fight for Life In Fierce Gale Steamer's Plight Nearly on the Rocks WELLINGTON
The French steamer La Marseillalse, which arrived here yesterday evening from Balvon en route for Sydney, had a perilous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plaything of Gale Steamer's Awful Experiences Steering Gear Fails Newcastle Bound Vessel Reaches Sydney SYDNEY
With her steering gear carried away, and her cargo of phosphates moved to the starboard side, the crew of the steamer Monadnock (4275 tons gross) had the awful experience of being the plaything of a fierce gale when hundreds of miles from land…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Victoria. Melbourne
Rain has stopped in localities continuous to the rivers Avoca, Goulburn, and Campaspe, but if further rains fall there will be a general flooding of all the flat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Re-awakening on Dyke Coal Deluge from South Maitland Stanford Merthyr No, 2 TROUBLE Shippers Hustling to Fulfil Orders
The port of Newcastle presented a changed appearance this morning, compared with that of the pan fow month". Every crane on the Dyke was occupied and 14 interstate and New Zealand steamers, apart from small coastal craft, were loading coal in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain, Gale and Snow Stormy Week-end Reservoir Overflows SYDNEY
As the result of heavy week-end rain, Prospect Reservoir overflowed this morning. Flood waters are rushing down the Nepean and Avon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steering Gear Carried Cragness in a Storm Cargo of Pig Iron Shifts Perilous Voyage Across Atlantic SYDNEY
Floating aimlessly around in mid-ocean in the teeth of one of the worst sales known in the Atlantic, with steering gear carried away and a 6000-ton cargo of pig-Iron thrown in to the starboard side, causing a frightful list, and with hugo waves continually…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Schooner Wrecked Flooded by Mountainous Seas Coal Cargo Shifted Crew Reaches Shore in Open Boat LONDON
The motor schooner William Prichard was wrecked on the lonely coast of Cumberland, after 18 hours' buffeting in a storm in the Irish Sea. The schooner, with nine aboard…
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