Outbreaks of Fire. Steamer Junee Damaged
The Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Junee was damaged by an outbreak of fire during the early hours of Saturday. The steamer arrived at…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921
175 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 9
The Steamer [?]
The steamer Junee, whly damaged by an outboard, while lying at [?] on Saturday morning,[?]…
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In the following article, written for "The Sunday Express," Mr. H. G. Wells, the well-known author, describes the recent tour through Russia made by…
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The Italian steamer Timavo, which is due at Sydney to load wheat for Europe, is a fine freighter, built by the Cantiere San Rocco, S.A., at Trieste, for…
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Reuter's Madrid correspondent reports that the Spanish steamer Santa Isabel is a total loss on the coast of Villagarcia, near the Island of Salvors…
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It in reported from Madrid that the official statement of the death roll caused by the wreck of the Spanish steamer Santa Isabel is that 244 lives were lost…
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To-day the following vessels were bar-bound:—Gleureagh,at Macleay Heads: Tuncurry, at Cape Hawke; and Yulgilbar, outside Yamba, where the The Tarawera, from Dunedin, arrived in Newcastle last night, to load coal for Bluff and Dunedin. The Koromiko, from Auckland, is due in…
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A message from Rome states that a steamer caught on fire-off Savona and disappeared. The fate of the crew is unknown…
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Mr. A. H. Hough, who despatched the Japanese steamer Kibi Maru from Newcastle for Sourabaya on January 8 with a cargo of coal, received a wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loss of the K5 Wreckage Found Distracted Relatives. LONDON, Sunday Night
It is authoritatively stated that wreckage has been found which is undoubtedly that of the submarine K 5. An Inquiry to being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Lost Submarine. Scenes in Portsmouth. the Wreckage Identified. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
It is officially reported that the submarine K5 was lost on Thursday with all hands 120 miles south-west of the Scilly Islands, to the south-west of…
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Messrs. Barclay, Curie and Company, Limited. recently launched from their Clydeholm yard, Whiteinch, the steamer Melford Hall, built for the Ellerman Lines, Limited. Of…
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The airship R34 reached its aerodrome at Howden, with the crew safe. Owing to its crippled condition, it bumped several times on landing, and the…
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Replying to a complaint about the withdrawal of the Government steamer, Dougias Mawson, from the Gulf trade, the Treasurer (Mr. Fihelly)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Salvage Claim Wreck of the Bombala SYDNEY
An action was brought in the High Court of Australia to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir Adrian Knox) when the crew of the steamer Dil[?]era…
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Built by Messrs. John Readhead and Sons, Limited, South Shields, to the order of Messrs. the Hain Steamship Company, St. Ives, Cornwall, the new screw steamer…
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John Massio and Albert Edward Jones were charged with the theft of a quantity of merchandise, the property of Fanny Ellen M'Guirk, from the steamer Our Elsio…
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On Sunday morning about daybreak the auxiliary schooner Omaka capsized at the entrance to Wellington Heads, and the whole crew were drowned, six lives in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hope Abandoned Spanish Steamer Overdue LONDON, Sunday Night
Hope has been abandoned regarding the safety of the Spanish steamer Yute, with a crew of 48, which has been over 90 days on a voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jack Tar Afloat and Ashore Plea for Sailor's Wife
Jack, afloat or ashore, has found a staunch friend in Lady Astor, whose championship of the cause of the sailor's wife made a marked…
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