Irish Ketch at the Cape
A message from Capetown reports that the 12-ton Ketch Saoirse has arrived there from Dublin, en route to New Zealand, flying the Free State flag, being the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
Ketch Salome Makes Good Progress SYDNEY
Given good weather, the fourteen ton ketch. Salome, which set sail from Sydney for Rabaul on September 28 should Peach her destination in about a month…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Still No Word Overdue Schooner SYDNEY
No word has been received in Sydney concerning the schooner Louis Theriault, which left Whangape, New Zealand, 28 days ago…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No Word Yet Missing Schooner SYDNEY
No word has yet been received of the schooner Louis Therlault which left Whangape for Sydney on September 10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Tied Up Trouble With Cooks' Union SYDNEY
The Burns Philp steamer Morinda which was to have sailed for papua to-day is to be tied up owing to a dispute regarding the refusal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dead Man's Luggage Deadly Snakes Excitement On Steamer MELBOURNE
Nobody thought of inspecting the long narrow wickerwork baskets which belonged to a Chinese who died aboard the steamer Radix, following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Reef Near Thursday Island Montoro Stranded Re-floating Expected SYDNEY
Shortly after midnight, Burns, Philp and Company's steamer Montoro ran ashore on Young Reef, off Thursday Island. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Schooner. Adelaide
The schooner Alcairo has been driven ashore four miles east of Marion Bay, Yorke Peninsula, and has become a total wreck. Her crew of four were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fifty Tons of Iron City of Newcastle Wreck Diver's Success Ship Well-Preserved After 46 Years
A four-Inch section of a brass bolt, with the grease still showing in the thread, taken from the plates of the engine boiler. A cast drain cock broken off one of the cylinders. A couple of bolt heads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stricken Japan Appalling Sights Death and Destruction. (Despatch from representatives of the Australian Press Association on board the Australian relief steamer Australmount.) TOKIO
The greater part of the magnificent city of Tokio lies in ashes. It is an appalling and staggering sight. The latest casually figures are:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wrecked Trevessa
Captain Foster, master of the wrecked steamer Trevessa, was presented at Cardiff with the Shipping Federation's medal and diploma…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Destroyers Led Astray By Wireless Risky Rescue Work
The, above photographs illustrate the loss, on September 3, of the United States destroyers Woodbury, Fuller, Delphi. Lee. Chauncey, Young and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →City of Newcastle Wreck. How the Vessel Stranded. Old Story Re-told
Memories of the stranding of the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer City of Newcastle are revived among old Newcastle residents by the attempts…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →City of Newcastle Old-Time Wreck Recalled Remarkable Sequence of Russells
A seaman who did good service on the City of Newcastle was named Russell, the contractor for saving the wreckage was John Russell, and the diver now cogaged in salvage work is also a Russel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mail Aeroplane Wrecked
An Imperial Dutch mall aeroplane, on route from Amsterdam to London, was forced to descend on Goodwin Sands at low tide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Wreck Passengers' Swim Luggage And Mails Lost LONDON
The passengers and pilot on the aeroplane which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands were compelled to swim to reach the lifeboat. They…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Radio to Rescue Sinking Steamer All Passengers Taken Off VANCOUVER
"Help! Quick!" were the last words from the wireless operator of the passenger steamers Sanguil, bound from Boston for Havana,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FOR B.H.P. Two Commonwealth Steamer Probable Purchase Widely Varying Values
Sales of a number of steamers of the Australian Commonwealth Line are stated to be Imminent, and during the next week it is expected that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer in Trouble Sydney
The steamer City of Milan, which left Sydney for South Africa, has sent a wireless message that she will return to port owing to propeller…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner in Trouble Perth
Flying signals of distress, the three-masted schooner Abemama, 837 tons. 52 days out from Newcastle, and bound for Freman[?], put into…
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