Steamer Archer
The Newcastle and Hunter River Co.'s steamer Archer is in dock at Sydney, undergoing her usual half-yearly overhaul. Space is also being insulated for the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911
348 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 18
Wreck of a Steamer. Passengers' Fate Unknown. St. Petersburg
A steamer, with 400 excursionists aboard, returning to Stockholm, from Helsingfors, in Finland, was wrecked in the Finnish Skerries…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer in a Gale
But for encountering a terrific southerly gale two days after leaving Algoa Bay in continuation of her voyage from Hamburg, the German-Australian liner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked by the Sea. a Canadian Colliery. Montreal
The sea burst into a colliery, at Port Cod, in Nova Scotia. The workings were abandoned, and the colliery is now useless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wrecked Motor Launch. Melbourne
Robert Joss, one of the two sailors who were on board the ill-fated motor launch R.S.K., has returned to Melbourne. His companion, Henry Jameson, remained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision Off Quebec. a Steamer Sunk. Montreal
The steamer Aranmore collided with and sank the steamer General Wolfe near Quebec, in a dense fog. Both vessels succeeded in launching…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Beached. Rescue by Wireless. London
The steamer Spokane, with 150, excursionists on a trip from Seattle to Alaska, struck a rock in Plumper's Bay, and was beached…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Founders. the Crew Perish. Christiania
The Norwegian steamer Eclipse has foundered off Langanals, on the north-east coast of Iceland. The crew, numbering 56, have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Isherwood Steamer
The largo steel screw collier Helvetia, built on the Tyne to the order of Messrs. W. Lowden and Co., of Liverpool, was recently given her trial trip. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pilot Steamer Ajax
The Newcastle pilot steamer Ajax, which returned to the station on Tuesday night, received a thorough overhaul while in dock at Cockatoo Island, and is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Espada Overdue. Adelaide
The American four-masted schoener Espada, for Port Adelaide, is now 136 days out from Grey's Harbour, on the Pacific Coast of the United States. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South African Wrecks
The Port Elizabeth "Herald," in an editorial headed "Wreeks and Ligllthouses," draws Captain Rainnies' attention to the finding of the Court of Inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Itzehoe Wreck
A couple of hours after the German-Australian liner Itzehoe was wracked off the South African coast, the captain was found lying on a settee in his cabin with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of a Steamer. Passengers Saved. Members of Crew Drowned. Vancouver
The steamer Santa Rosa, with 290 passengers, has gone aground. There was a panic when the vessel struck, and many women and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Santa Rosa Wreck. Further Reports. Los Angeles
The story that Captain Fari, of the steamer Santa Rosa, which was wrecked on the American coast, treated the passengers in a brutal manner…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discovery of Wreckage. Cairns
A report from Port Douglas states that the party who have for the past few weeks been searching the coast to the north, for traces of the missing boys from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New B.i. Steamer
Torilia is the name decided on for the latest addition to the B.I.S.N. Company's fleet. She was launched at the Jarrah Yarn of Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Santa Rosa. Twelve Persons Drowned. San Francisco
It is now stated that at least a dozen persons were drowned by the wreck of the Pacific Company's steamer Santa Rosa, because the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Capsizes. Several Men Drowned. Berlin
The German steamer Elbing VIII., 622 tons, capsized in the North Sea. The crew were drowned with the exception of three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mishap on Steamer
When the steamer Tongariro, which arrived at Wellington from London last week, was about nine days' steam from Hobart, on accident happened in the…
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