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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
186 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 10
Lively times continue in Southern China, and a member of the Canton Cabinet has been assassinated. He was an opponent of foreigners and a friend of the Russian Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →So far, Newcastle has not been included in the overseas shipping dispute, but great interest attaches to the arrival of the steamer Hartfield…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →President Coolidge has issued a statement in which he takes decided exception to the Shipping Board's reported intention of withdrawing the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Department said that the express which left Sydney yesterday afternoon arrived at Wallangarra on time this morning, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Monaro went aground on a mudbank in the channel off Willaimstown at about 7 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fifth British manned vessel to visit this port since the British seamen's strike, arrived here from Sydney on Wednesday evening. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the giant American airship Shenandoah broke into, three pieces 5000 feet from the earth the wildly spinning sections hurled men, in air directions. Thirteen bodies have been found, and six other members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There were many narrow escapes from serious injury when a motor 'bus containing 25 passengers, travelling from Middle Brighton to Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following upon the refusal of the crew of the Hain liner Min, to sail from Newcastle on Thursday afternoon six white members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An investigation aboard the steamer Kent, following the outbreak of fire shown that in addition to 1500 tons of cargo destroyed in No. 2 hold,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Union Company's steamer Karamu, while on the way from Strachan to Hobart, has gone down off the treacherous west coast of tasmania…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two boys built a boat And thought it would float. But something went wrong with there dreams…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was an important development in connection with the British seamen's dispute last night when the steamer Surrey cleared the Heads for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The pilot steamer Matthew Flinders is held up at Brisbane, owing to trouble with the crew, which refused to honour the agreement signed on their behalf by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Though his cargo is worth a fortune, there is a ship's captain at Dover who cannot continue his voyage because he has no money…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten miles out of her course in driving rain, with visibility bad the French mail steamer Dupleix ran hard on a reef about 40 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Forty-eight hours. Hell, and we are lucky to be alive. "Words cannot describe the terrible experiences of the men, both…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Balsella, on route from Bootless Inlet to Singapore, is reported to be ashore near Bent island, one of the Three Sisters Group, 40 miles eastwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wealthy and beautiful Argentine woman, living in a London flat, was the centre of an exciting scene on the Thames, when she tried to take possession of a schooner loaded with 10,000 cases of whisky. When she called from a rowing boat to a burly supercargo that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The French have gained further successes in Morocco, but the position of the Spanish landing forces at Alchumas is still far from satisfactory. The French bombardment totally wrecked the Riff trenches, allowing…
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