Idle Vessels 25 In Sydney Harbor 12 Federal Steamer Loss Of £330 a Day SYDNEY
Never before in its long history has Sydney Harbor sheltered so many idle ships as are now tied up within its boundaries…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14
Fight on a Schooner
Nine men—two whites, two negroes, and five Chinese—were killed and thrown into the sea in the course of a furious fight aboard the small British schooner…
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The pilot steamer Captain Cook left Sydney yesterday for Newcastle, to undergo annual overhaul at the Walsh Island Government dockyard…
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A quarrel which arose yesterday among the Javanese crew of the Dutch steamer Sawahloent, now lying tied up at the No. 8 dolphin at North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disasters in Sydney Steamer Wrecked; Manly Ferries Battered SYDNEY
While the wind was howling at 53 miles an hour this morning, red rockets came up from a helpless steamer on the rocks at Hacking Point, Cronulla. Ferry passengers were sea-sick on Sydney Harbor, the Manly boat, Burrabra, lurched into the Quay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Belbowrie Ashore Sydney
The coastal vessel Belbowrie, of 219 tons, which left Redhead, near Ulladulla, at 4.20 p.m. yesterday, with 25,000 feet of timber for Sydney, is high and…
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The booming of the signal gun at Signal Hill shortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon, as a warning to the Newcastle lifeboat crow to stand by,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mountainous Waves. Steamer's Terrible Battle "Crew Lucky to be Safe" Ngatoro's Thrilling Time During Cyclone Sydney
So serious did the position of the strainer Ngatoro become during yesterday's gale that the vessel was tarred to seek the shelter of Sydney Harbor. Members of the crew consider themselves fortunato to be safe. They declare that the vessel hit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trampled on the Flag Dublin Incident Irishman on a Steamer LONDON
"The Times" correspondent in Dublin says that the British steamer Dungeness is lying in Dublin docks. A civilian, accompanied by a man in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Trevessa Wreck Captain Reported Safe. London
The wife of the captain of the foundered steamer Trevessa received an unsigned cable message, via Mauritius, saying that he was safe and in excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bodies Washed Ashore. Sydney
The Navigation Department to-day received a telegram from the police at Crescent Head, stating that the body of a man, fully clothed, in a standard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer on Fire Coweambah Total Loss
Burnt to the water line while lying at her owner's wharf at Tea Gardens, Port [?]phens, the coastal steamer Coweambah is now a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wrecked Sailors. Story of the Captain. Fine Discipline. Sufferings at Sea. Death of Two Arabs. (Special Message to the Australian Press Association from the Captain.) RODRIGUEZ
A graphic story is told by Captain Foster of the loss of the steamer Trevessa, and of the privations sustained by him and the members of the crew…
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The Navy Office advised this afternoon that the steamer Hartington, 4403 tons, bound for Newcastle with a cargo of phosphates, owned by the Phosphates,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of the Sumatra. Another Body Ashore Preliminary Inquiry Opened Sydney
The body of Captain Bell, of the Sumatra, has been washed ashore on the coast, clad in pyjamas. The deduction to be drawn from this is that disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Held Captive by Ice Fishing Steamer 200 Men Helpless VANCOUVER
It is reported from St. Johns, New Foundland that relief is being sent to the steamer, Seal, on route to Labrador fisheries. With two hundred men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Damaged Wellington (N.z.)
A wireless message from the steamer, Port Auckland, which left Lylileton for London on June 20, states that the vessel encountered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Hartington Fire Under Control. Brisbane
Early this afternoon the steamer Hartington was coming up the North-West Channel of Moreton Bay under her own steam, while the Anzac was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamer Hartington Brisbane
The steamer Harington berthed at Pinkenba concrete wharf this morning. Owing to the shortage of coal she was towed from the Pile Light by two tugs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Shipwrecked Sailors
Details are available concerning the behaviour of the crews of the two Trevessa boats after their arrival at Rodriguez and Mauritius…
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