New Lifeboat for Stockton Beach Building a Shed
The working foreman at Stockton gave an estimate of cost to the council for the erection of a shed for the new lifeboat, which is nearing completion…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1922
214 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 11
Steamer Brawl Men Sent for Trial Iron Bar as Weapon
That a seaman was hit on the head with an iron bar and his skall nearly fractured was alleged at the Newcastle Court to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Walsh Island. New Passenger Steamer
The third of the large steel steamers contracted for by the Government Dock-yard will be launched from Walsh Island at 4 p.m. to-morrow. This vessel, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Walsh Island. Kuttabul Launched. Big Ferry Steamer
The launching of the Kuttabul, the third of the ferry steamers built at the Walsh Island Dockyard for Sydney Ferries, Ltd., took place yesterday in the presence of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Danger to Shipping Steamer Sees Wreckage SYDNEY
A wireless message was received by the Department of Navigation from the captain of the steamer Port Stephens reporting a danger to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of a Ketch
News was received at Thursday Island on Saturday of the loss of the ketch Leila. She struck a reef and sank near Cape York. All hands were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cutter Wrecked Fears for Crew's Safety Have They Beached Land? LAUNCESTON (Tas.)
A telephone message was received from Smithton by W. Rainbird. June, of Launceston, informing him that his motor cutter Una had boon wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Cutter Crew Rescued LAUNCESTON
Burgess, Forward, and Barnes, the crew of the cutter Una, who have been missing near Cape Grim for over a week, owing to the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Shipwreck" Story Adventures in Launch ROCKHAMPTON
In July of last year information was received at Rockhampton of the sensational experience a man had with a burning motor boat near Long…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer to Tie Up Trouble with Firemen Conference with Mr. Syme
Owing, it is stated, to trouble with the firemen, the Melbourne S.S. Company's steamer Coolana, which completed loading coal at Newcastle for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Crew Trouble Union Demands MELBOURNE
The steamer Cycle, 6700 tons, which is the latest addition to the interstate fleet of the Australian Steamships, Limited, arrived in Melbourne from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer on Fire Dublin Outrage Petrol Sprayed on Deck LONDON
Armed men from Dublin boarded the Ulster steamer Rat[?]linhead. They sprinkled the deck with petrol, and set fire to it. They also shot at and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flicked His Tail Whale Shakes Steamer SYDNEY
"It is rarely that one sees a whale off Taumotu Island, between Panama and New Zealand, but coming across on the voyage we saw one and felt it,"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russian Shell British Steamer Beached Odessa Battery London
Lloyd's agent at Constantinople reports that a shell fired from a coast battery near Odessa struck the British steamer Datchet, causing her to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hobson's Bay Trouble. Steamer to Sail To-day. Sydney
It was announced to-day by the officials of the Commonwealth Line that the steamer Hobson's Bay will leave the wharf, as scheduled, at noon to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked in Gale Channel Disaster Seventeen Drowned LONDON, Friday Night
Seventeen of the crew, including the captain of the 3000-ton steamer. Depute Albert Talandier, were drowned in a gale in the Channel, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smallpox on Steamer Coining to Newcastle Thursday Island
A seaman was landed here yesterday from the steamer Shelley suffering from smallpox. The vessel proceeded to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Orders for Newcastle Steamer Frames Commonwealth Business
The order for two steel stern frames for the two 12,500-ton ships being built at Cockatoo Island, may come to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspected Plague on Steamer
On her arrival off Williamstown (Vic.) from Sydney, the Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Dimboola was held up owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Steamer City of Pittsburg Modern Cargo Carrier
Flying the Hall line house flag, the new steamer City of Pittsburg, which is discharging a cargo of cased oil from New York at King's Wharf, has…
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