Thirty Dead Steamer Blown Up Gasoline Ignites New Orleans
[?] lives were lost as the result of a gasoline explosion aboard the steamer Gulf of Venezucia, in dock at Port Arthur, Texas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 12
Wreckage Found Possibly From Dorrigo Tweed Heads
A number at mattresses, similar to those used on board ship, have been washed up at Shark's Bay and Kirra Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dire Peril Steamer Escapes Engineers' Feat Epic of Storm SYDNEY
"We can right her if tea stop the engines." "We can't stop, Chief. We mutt keep her moving."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burst Into Tears Gladys Moncrieff's Debut "Plot to Wreck Play" London
MR. LESLIE STYLES, the producer, has caused a sensation by alleging that there was a Plot to wreck the comic opera…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Altercation on Steamer Arab Fireman Stabbed
An altercation occurred yesterday afternoon on board the steamer Strathlorne, lying at Nos. 10 and 11 cranes, in the Basin, Carrington, between two Arab…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Steamer Copra Cargo Ignites LONDON
A fire, believed to be due to spontaneous combustion, broke [?] on the Norwegian vessel Tricolor. [?] Sydney, which was loading copra at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of the Dorrigo the Captain's Evidence Brisbane
The inquiry into the foundering of the steamer Dorrigo was commenced to-day by the Court of Marine inquiry, consisting of Mr. W. Hishon, P.M., with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Given Up for Lost Schooner Turns Up Strange Cruise San Francisco
THE American four-masted schooner Irene left Puget Sound on December 14 with a lumber cargo for Florida…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of the Dorrigo Marine Court Inquiry Brisbane
At the resumed inquiry into the foundering of the steamer Dorriga, with the loss of 23 lives, Captain Gray, in reply to questions, said he believed the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of the Egypt
French and German divers will leave Brest on May 11 to endeavour to effect the salvage of gold and silver to the value of £1,000,000 on board the P. and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Dorrigo Marine Court Inquiry Brisbane
"It is manifest that the Dorrigo must, at some period of her history, have got top heavy. How she got so, we are trying to find out. I am endeavouring to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unions Jubilant Pilot Steamer Contract
Officials of the Newcastle branch of the Boilermakers' Society and the Federated Ironworkers' are jubilant at the action of the State Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Pilot Steamer Work for Walsh Island Sydney
The Government decided to-day that ha new steamer to replace the pilot steamer Ajax shall be constructed at a cost of about £40,000. The work is to be given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Fresh Cases Steamer in Quarantine SYDNEY
The steamer Barrabool arrived from London to-day, and went into quarantine. No fresh cases of smallpox have occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Went Aground Cargo Steamer Mareeba BRISBANE
A wireless message received early this morning suited that the steamer Mareeba had gone aground between Botany Point and Rocky Point and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRECKED Unlucky Wilkins 'Plane Rined Success Not Likely
FAIRBANKS (Alaska). Thursday. Captain Wilkins's 'plane was wrecked when the landing gear tackled as the 'plane taxied on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Mid Ocean Steamer Loses a Propeller SYDNEY
A wireless message received by the Navigation Department to-day stated that the American freighter, Eastern Moon, which left Sydney for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anxiety for Steamer S.O.S. Message Picked Up AUCKLAND
Anxiety is felt for the Danish steamer Sierra More, which left Auckland for Taraki on Saturday. She should have arrived on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foundered at Sea Dredge Ham 3 Seaman's Narrow Escape
There were sensational circumstances surrounding the foundering of the dredge Ham 3 off the north coast, as reported in the "Newcastle Morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Injured on Steamer Evidence at Inquest
At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Me. C. Hibble, the district coroner, inquired into the death of Joseph James, Sutherland, aged 47 years, which occurred…
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