Eleven Drowned River Steamer Sinks QUEBEC
Ten men and one woman were drowned when the freight and passenger steamer .Guide sank near Goodout, on the northern…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12
Canadian Shipwreck
A telegram from Quebee reports that eleven persons were drowned including a woman, when a steamer sank near Godbout, on the northern shore of the St…
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The steamer Rio Claro, which was pulled off Scott's Reef by the tugs Corinda and Forceful on Sunday evening, steamed into cairns under her own steam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Refloated Steamer Rio Claro at Cairns CAIRNS
The steamer Rio Claro, which had been refloated after grounding on the Barrier Reef, has unloaded her cased oil here, and will leave for Bowen in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Eleven Wrecks Great Gale in Japan TOKIO
A terrific gale is raging in Northern Japan. Eleven shipwrecks are reported, and many lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident at Sea Steamer Puts [?]ck Bo'sun's Fall
Signals that an accident had occurred on board the steamer Harpalyco were observed at Newcastle pilot station at 7.30 a.m. to-day. The vessel…
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Sir James Connolly, the late Agent-General for West Australia, associated with Sir John Biles, Sir Eustace Deyncourt, and Mr. Charles Parsons, is issuing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Island Mails Burned on Steamer SUVA
Mails from Australia to Levuke, which left Sydney by the Ventura last Wednesday were destroyed by a fire on the Inter-island steamer Adikeva…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mullumbimby (N.s.w.). a Perfect Wreck Through Kidney Disease
I was brought down by Kidney Disease so that I could not raise myself from my bed being as weak as a baby, The pain in the back was positively unbearable. I…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Jumped Overboard Seamen Swim Ashore ADELAIDE
When the Norwegian steamer Bessa was leaving Port Pirie two seamen jumped overboard, swam ashore, and disappeared in the town…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Lifeboat Coxswain J. Ross Retires
There was a large and representative gathering at the pilots' waiting room on Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of a social tendered to Coxswain James Ross,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Rio Claro Brisbane
It has been ascertained that the steamer Rio Claro, which was pulled off Scott Roof, and which proceeded to Cairns under her own steam, is not leaking more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trouble on a Steamer Calcutta
Adventure befel the Apear line steamer Talamba on her last voyage from Calcutta to the Far East. She called at Singapore to embark 1100 deck passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Save Fire on Steamer Rona. AUCKLAND
The steamer Rona, which has arrived from Fiji with a sugar, cargo, had a narrow escape from serious damage by a fire which wan extinguished only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wanted to Stay Man's Leap From Steamer SYDNEY
When the Slerra was drawing out from the wharf at circular Quay, on its way to San Francisco to-day, a member of the engine-room staff…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Komura Returns to Port
The M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn's Line Proprietary, Limited, steamer Komura, which left Newcastle at five p.m. yesterday, with a cargo of coal for Adelaide, developed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blocked by Bar Steamer's Load Lessened
Owing to the insufficiency of water on Newcastle bar yesterday the steamer Tairoa, which has been tied up in Newcastle for some time, had to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Radio for Help Steamer Returns to Port
When the steamer Komura was three miles out to sea last night her engines began to fall, and radios for assistance were sent out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Landed on Steamer Racing Pigeon's Refuge SYDNEY
One of two stray pigeons which landed on the Otranto off Newcastle the other day, and were released yesterday, in the hope that they would…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ketgh Wrecked All Hands Saved SUVA (Fill)
The auxiliary ketch Tukelow has been wrecked on the Tukeloo group. All hands have been saved. The vessel was insured. The Tukelon is the…
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