German Barque Wrecked
The German barque Adolie Vinnen, which was making her maiden voyage from Bremen to Barry, was wrecked off the Lizard…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
Lifeboat Propulsion
Among the many recent inventions concerned with life saving at sea, one of the most interesting is a new form of mechanism for propelling a lifeboat. Case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome to Sharks Food for Starving Men Ship in Distress Schooner's Long Voyage SYDNEY
With starvation staring them in the face, officers and men on the becalmed schooner, W. H. Smith, hailed the capture of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Hulk Wrecked Sinks During Gale
Details of misadventures which overtook two coal hulks in Wellington harbor last week, owing to a north-westerly gale, were brought to…
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A message was received yesterday afternoon by Captain Sangster, Deputy Superintendent of Navigation at Newcastle, from the lighthouse keeper at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Houses Wrecked Terrible Gas Explosion Finding a Leak Inspector Killed LONDON
"There was a terrible roar and a sheet of flame, and the two houses went up in a sheet of dust," is the graphic description…
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It is reported from Constantinople that a steamer flying the French flag has been arrested in the Sea of Marmora, and brought in under French escort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coramba Wreck Inquiry into Beaching Marine Court's Finding SYDNEY
After hearing evidence yesterday regarding the benching of the Coramba in Nelson's Bay on December 31, the Marino Court found Hint the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Berrima Arrives. Serious Allegations. Sydney
The steamer Berrima, about which serious allegations have been made by the passengers on her voyage from England, arrived at Sydney to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecks in the Gale
In the heavy westerly gale that has been raging off the American coast, both in the Pacific and Atlantic, a number of vessels have come to grief…
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The arrival of the s.s. Hobson Bay yesterday was heralded by a wireless request that detectives should meet the vessel at Tilbury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms in Britain. Exceptional Severity Eight Vessels Wrecked (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Snowstorms in the Midlands and North of England and in Scotland are of exceptional severity. Many towns are snowbound, and villages isolated…
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Responding to wireless requests, the Vancouver police boarded the steamer Talbu Maru on her arrival, and arrested nine mutineers and 29 stowaways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Indarra
It is stated in the "Gazette," published in Liverpool (Eng.), that the Indarra, 10,000 tone, which Wane the biggest vessel in the interstate service before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Mindini Ashore Sydney
The steamers Mindlni, owned by the Burns, Philp Company, which is engaged in trading between Sydney and the Solomon Islands went ashore on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked Mindini Passengers on Morinda BRISBANE
The steamer Morinda will arrive at Cairns to-morrow with the passengers and crew of the wrecked steamer Mindini. They will be transhipped…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seamen Fined Trouble on Steamer
Charges of disorderly conduct on board the American steamer, Hollywood, at present in Newcastle Harbor, were responsible for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop-press Steamer Collision
A collision, which was fortunately not attended by serious damage, occurred early this morning outside the entrance to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner Adrift Waihora's Strange Sight in Tasman Sea Auckland
A strange story of the sen has been brought to Auckland. It tells of a five-masted schooner, with no sails set, and with no light showing,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ill-fated Mindini. Story of the Wreck. Brisbane
With decks strewn with luggage and at the available accommodation overtaxed the steamer Morinda arrived at Caira this morning with the crew and passes…
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