The Holiday. Exodus from the City. Train and Steamer Excursions
Weather conditions to-day were ideal for holiday-makers, though at first there was an appreciable tang in the air which gave warning of the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917
198 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 10
Chinese Junk Wrecked
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A Chinese junk has been found wrecked on the beach near Channel Point, Port Darwin. All on board, consisting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Catterthun. Wreck of 1895. Fifty-one Lives Lost
The fine steamer Catterthum left Sydney at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of August 7, 1895, passed Newcastle at 10.45, and at 2.25 the following morning hit a reef near…
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LONDON, Monday.—A peace meeting in the East End was wrecked to-day and the flags were torn up by indignant crowds. Two pacificists were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Fighting. German Trenches Wrecked. Paris
The latest French communique states:— There were violent artillery actions at St. Quentin, north of the Aisne, and in the Champagne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Oakland Wreck of 1893. Twelve Lives Lost
A tale of disaster, such as had not been equalled in grimness for many years, was flashed upon the community on the morning of May 29. A well-found coasting…
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A steamer which arrived in Newcastle last night to load coal is likely to bo held up here as regards cargo, as it is understood that she…
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It is understood that a difficulty will be raised to-day in regard to the loading of a steamer in port with coal. She has coma here to take a cargo for New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked Javanese. Darwin
Captain Barker, who returned from Eathurst Island in the s.s. Alcairo, found the shipwrecked people there to be Javanese, who had been trading amongst…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Union Company Steamer. London
Mrs. Massey, wife of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, performed the ceremony of launching a new steamer, the Armagh, of 14,000 tons, built for the Union…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →America. U.S. Steamer's Feat. Submarine Sunk at First Shot
WASHINGTON, Wednesday—A United States steamer's first shot sank a submarine that was attacking her when off the coast of Ireland on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Massacres of Huns British Dinc-dong Blows Zeppelin Wrecked on Trial British Front. Ding-dong Attacks. German Fury Exhausted
LONDON. Thursday.—"The Times" correspondent at the British Headquarters telegraphs that the ferocity of the lighting and the slaughtering of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Schooner Sunk. Washington
The American schooner Percy Birdsall, a four-masted wooden vessel, of 1128 tons, has been sunk by a submarine, by gun fire, without warning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Attacks Wreck Enemy Works. Further Ground Gained. Air Squadrons Make Raids. Violent Artillery Struggle. (Australian Cable Association.) PARIS
The latest French communique states: —Artillery on both sides has been active, particularly north-west of Rheims and in the Champagne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greek Steamer Torpedoed
NEW YORK. Tuesday.—The Greek steamer Parthenon, bound from New York to Havre, has been torpedoed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Giant Aeroplane Wrecked
LONDON, Sunday.—A Russian official communique states: "One of the giant Iliamurcmetz aeroplanes fell unexplainedly from a height of 10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World's Merchant Shipping Spanish Steamer Sunk
MARID, Monday.—A Gorman submarine sank the Spanish steamer Carmen while the latter was proceeding to Cette…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The steamer Dekalb, formerly the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, has been commissioned. She is the first of the seized…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trench Steamer Sunk
MADRID, Tuesday.—The French mail steamer Medjerda (1,918 tons) has been sunk. Seventeen shipwrecked persons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Steamer Sunk. Madrid
The French mail steamer Medjerda, of 1918 tons, has been sunk. Seventeen shipwrecked persons, including several Spanish, have arrived at…
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