Pirates Seize Steamer
It is reported from Hongkong that Chinese pirates disguised as passengers took possession of the China Navigation Company's steamer Tungehow, shot and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1925
186 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 10
Brave Lifeboat Men
Responding to a visual signal four miles from the coast, the Saint Ives lifeboat, which is motorless and driven by sails, battled against mountainous seas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floating Wreckage May be Missing Ketch Holmwood's Find
The wreekage of a vessel of approximately 94 feet in length was passed by the schooner Holmwood on her voyage from Wanganui (New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Maheno to Tie Up. Sydney
The continual holding-up of the steamer Mahcno by members of the stokehold complement has proved so costly that the owners, the Union Steamship Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer in Trouble
A wireless message, intercepted at Landsend, indicated, that the steamship Coronado, proceeding to Jamaica from Avonmouth, was in need of assistance A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Hold Steamer Manuka Damaged WELLINGTON
Trouble still follows the steamer Manuka. A sequence of unlucky incidents has marked her voyages, and at present she is held up because of…
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