Fire on a Steamer Heavy Damage Reported Sydney
A fire was discovered in the bunkers of the steamer Niels Nielsen, which is anchored in Sydney Harbour, last night by the chief engineer, but as it was at first…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 14
Sank in Ten Minutes Steamer and Tug Collide Narrow Midnight Escape of Passengers London
The Manx steamer Douglas sank in ten minutes in the Mersey, when it collided at midnight, at first with the tug Fighting Cock, and then the Artemisia, which the Fighting Cock was towing…
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Word has been received in Sydney that the schooner K. V. Kruise has safely arrived at Seattle, after a long and stormy voyage from Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diver Russell To Dip Into Gulf After Old Wreck
Mr. P. W. Russell, of the firm of Russell and Co., engineers, of Hunter-street. intends to make a venture under the sea at the gulf between the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Changsha Strikes a Reef. Sydney
Pennant Hills wireless station to-night picked up a radio from Perth and Darwin stations stating that the China-Australian Steamship Company's steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranded Changsha Must Have Help Salvage Steamer Sent SYDNEY
The position of the stranded P. and O. steamer Changsha is more serious than was at first thought. Captain Gambrlie has sent a wireless to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHANGSHA Salvage Steamer Arrives Passengers Safe Difficulty Of Floating SYDNEY
A message has been received that the stranded steamer Changsha is still aground on Tigitigi bank, and that the steamer Katherine is in the…
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A cable message received late this afternoon by the agents in Sydney for the Changsha, stated that a salvage steamer had now arrived beside the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schooner's 304 Days in Pacific
The three-masted schooner St. George, on which an expedition is shortly to sail, under the auspices of the Scientific Expeditionary Research Association, to visit islands in the South Pacific. Thirty "paying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of a Launch Five Men Drowned Brisbane
Five men lost their lives in the wreck of the Brisbane launch Bellbird, off Maroocydore, just north of Brisbane, last night. Yesterday the launch was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liner Strikes Old Wreckage Empress Of Scotland In Trouble LONDON
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland has been disabled in the English Channel after having struck submerged wreckage. The vessel is being escorted to Southampton by five tugs. One…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck Plundering
"A Resident," writing from Nelson's Bay, alleges that there has been a deal of plundering from the wreck of the North Coast steamer Wallamba. He has,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Upset Crew Saved Gander Bay Tragedy VANCOUVER
The schooner Tritoma (Captain Peter Boyd) was upset and lost while entering Gander Bay, but the crew was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Eastern Moon Loses Propeller. Adelaide
The steamer Eastern Moon, after losing her propeller off Cape Northumberland on Saturday morning, drifted about during the day, but is now anchored six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Helpless at Sea Steamer's Shaft Broken MELBOURNE
Wireless messages have been received by the American Trading Company that the steamer Eastern Moon, of 5716 tons. which left Melbourne for Adelaide on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GREETINGS! Message From The Deep Wreck of the Ulvsund LONDON
The following pencilled message was contained in a bottle found in the seaweed at Logstow, Jutland: "Greetings from the steamer Ulvsund. Now…
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A message from Shanghai states that hope has been abandoned for the British steamer Mylie, which was last seen on August 16, battling with a typhoon…
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A message from Amsterdam states that the German steamer Kloepfol, bound from Hull to Bremerhaven, foundered during a gale in the North Sea, and only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Aground In Sydney Harbor SYDNEY
At 11 o'clock last night the wooden steamer, Astral, of 157 tons, owned by Andrew Adain, coal merchant, of 79 Pitt-street, ran aground on the Sow and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Edition Wrecked in Fog Seven Destroyers Thirty, Men Drowned VANCOUVER
Seven American destroyers and the freighter Cuba were wrecked in a fog on the rocks of Santa Barbara Channel, on the…
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