New Interstate Steamer
To replace the steamer Monaro, which was sold recently to Japanese buyers, the Melbourne S.S. Company have an order with Messrs. Swan, Hunter and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12
Slashed by Razor Brawl on Steamer
As the result of a brawl which occurred on the steamer Rathlin Head, at the Basin cranes, just after seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Timothy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamers Collide Ferry Steamer Damaged
The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer Gwydir, and the Newcastle Ferries Company's ferry steamer Bluebell collided in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Held Up Members of Crew Missing
It is stated that when the steamer Argalia was ready for sea this morning it was found that five of her crew, four firemen and a greaser, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dense Fog Steamer Strikes Wharf BRISBANE
At an inquiry held by the Marine Board into a collision between the Clan Morrison and the Pinkenba wharf on Thursday, evidence was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drop, of Water Big Steamer Disabled Owners' Problem Melbourne
One drop of water can cause amazing damage. A month ago, when the steamer Clan Monree was leaving Hobart with a pilot aboard a drop of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Delayed Mishap to Largs Bay LONDON
The Commonwealth liner, Largs Day, has arrived at Port Said. She has lost a blade oft the port propeller, and the opposite blade is being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Held Up. Firemen and Boy Desert
Two firemen and a mess boy, members of the crew of the Howard Smith steamer kilnsea, deserted from that vessel at 10 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer in Flames Adrift in Atlantic Cruises Standing by Capetown
The strainer Paparoa has been abandoned with her holds on fire 150 miles west of Port Nolloth, on the west coast of Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Ketch Murder Plot Feared DARWIN
It is believed that disaster has overtaken the 22-ton ketch, John Alice, which left here two months ago for Thursday Island, with two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Overdue Anxiety for Borrodale SYDNEY
Anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Borrodale, 5000 tens, from Santa Fe (Argentine). She was due in Sydney a week ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Whole Gale" Steamer's Struggle 20 Hours Overdue Buffeted off Newcastle
With her bows burled deep in mountainous waves, and her propeller whirring madly high above the water, the Onward steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer in Distress
It is reported from New York that a message picked up from the British cargo steamer Lalcham, about 600 miles southcast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch John Alce Safe. Thursday Island
The auxiliary ketch John Ale, from Darwin, arrived here this morning, after a protracted voyage. Fears had been entertained for her safety…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Not Unsound Lost British Steamer LONDON
The Board of Trade, after an inquiry into the loss at the beginning of the year of the steamer Antinoe, the crow of which was saved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Dorrigo Wrecked on Friday Near Wide Bay Bar. Captain and Son Rescued. No Signs of Others. Twenty-one Men Missing. Brisbane
Captain Roskruge, the Deputy Director of Navigation, received a message from the keeper of Double Island Point Lighthouse that the steamer Moruya reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Dorrigo. No Trace of Missing Crew. Story of the Disaster. Suffering of the Survivors. Accompanied by Sharks. Brisbane
No trace of the missing crew of the steamer Dorrigo has been found up to this morning, From Double Island Light-house it was reported at 9 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dorrigo Wreck Body Found on Beach. Many Tattoo Marks Maryborough (Q.)
This afternoon Mr. Mann, police inspector received a telephone message from Inskip Point that those searching the shores of Fraser Island had found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Little Hope Dorrigo Wreck Victims Stricken Families Brisbane
As far as can be gathered, 10 wives and 26 children have been be[?] of their breadwinners by the Dorrigo disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mishap to Ferry Steamer
The Newcastle Ferries Company's steamer Shamrock lost her propeller when sear the Dyke on the trip from Newcastle to North Stockton about 8.40 p.m…
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