In a Lifeboat. Voyage To Australia Engineer's Cruise London
Thomas, an engineer, who will be accompanied by his wife. is waiting for favorable weather to attempt to sail from Penzance to Australia in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924
239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 12
Brutal Assault Trouble On Steamer Bully Punished Melbourne
A brutal assault on a subordinate by an unscrupulous bully is counsel described an attack made by Edward Elliott, second officer on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Union Steamer Aorangi
The Newcastle office of the Union S.S. Company of New Zealand, Limited, has received the following details concerning the quadrupic screw motor ship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Badly Holed German Steamer on a Reef Hong Kong Disaster Hongkong
The German steamer, R. C. Rickmers, 6000 tons, with a cargo principally of iron for Japan, struck a rock leaving Hongkong, in trying to avoid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fisherman Lost Wrecked Launch' WOLLONGONG
Wreckage found to the north of Otford has been identified as part of the launch in which James Fisher, a resident of Tarrawanna, left La…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inventor of the Lifeboat
Will the centenary celebrations of the foundation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution revive a controversy which raged rather fiercely in Northumbria fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tintenbar Sileni No News from Wreck SYDNEY
No further messages have been received from the steamer Tintenbar, which is aground on a reef off the coast of New Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Men Killed Fierce Fire on Steamer Terrific Explosion Oil and Coal Gas Cause Huge Blaze ADELAIDE
The terrific force of the explosion on the oil steamer City of Singapore, thorough which four men lost their lives, is shown by the fact that a piece of iron weighing a ton was huried 70 yards. The fire is regarded as one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Pruth Marine Court Inquiry. Sydney
A Marine Court inquiry was held to-day In connection with the stranding and subsequent loss of the steamer Pruth, on Natera Reef, about nine miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Orient Steamer
A cable message received by Mr. Dowdell, the general manager in Australia of the Orient Stream Navigation Company, Limited, announcing that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Astral Marine Court Inquiry Sydney
An inquiry was held to-day by the Marine Court, Judge Scholes presiding, and Captains Vine Hall and Wood being the assessors, into the foundering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Steamer Kut
Some anxiety had been felt in shipping circles concerning the steamer Kut, 3513 tons, from Kobe to Sydney, with cargo. A wireless message was, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Orvieto Off Mail Steamer Refloated SYDNEY
The R. M. S. Orvieto was refloated at 6.45 last night, and proceeded down the Brisbane river. Mr. D. L. Dowdell, general manager…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal to Newcastle New Steamer's Cargo SYDNEY
Cable advice was received by the Adelaide Steamship Company, that its new steamer, the Arkoona, left Glasgow yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Struck Obstacle Steamer Merriwa Damaged Shelter in Harbor Sydney
The steamer Merriwa. which, whilst hound from Melbourne to Newcastle, reported having struck a submerged object off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. John Scott 36 Years in Pilot Service Life-boat Perils
Fifteen hours in a rasing sea, exposed to rain and hurricane winds, while the lifeboat stood by steamers Century and West Wind,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Little Damage Tug and Steamer Collide SYDNEY
The tug Emu and the steamer Bulga collided in Sydney Harbor, off Long-nose Point, this morning. The Emu was towing the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Lighthouse
It is reported from Copenhagen that the Anholt lighthouse, at the Cattegat was partly wrecked by an air-pump explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Wyrallah Melbourne
The Marine Court to-day opened the hearing of a charge against Captain Bracken, of the Wyrallah, for contravening articles of the Navigation Act by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →American Schooner William Taylor in Port
The four- masted American schooner William Taylor left. Vanconver on September 19, and called at Pitcairn Islands with cargo. also at Cape…
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