Disabled at Sea Steamer Wonganella St. Giles to Rescue Sydney
The disabled Wonganella, according to latest wireless advices, is drifting helplessly 160 miles cast of Sandy Cape. No time has been lost in…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 12
Steamer Wonganella Perilous Position Brisbane
The steamer Wonganella which broke her tail shaft about 120 miles east of Cape Moreton a couple of days a ago, and which has since been drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Dorrigo Marine Court's Judgment Brisbane
The desirability of requiring all vessels trading between ports to carry wireless was stressed by the Court of Marine Inquiry to-day in giving judgment in its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Uralla Tempestuous Voyage. Brisbane
After a tempestuous voyage, lasting 93 days, from Grangemouth (Scotland), the North Coast Navigation company's new steamer Urulla, which was due at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Armament Question Plot Among Nations to Wreck the Scheme (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Express" staes that the French won a signal success at the preliminary conference on disarmament, but may…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Diet of Turnips Coastal Schooner's Plight MELBOURNE
Boiled turnips for breakfast baked turnips for dinner, stowed turnips for tea, for nine days. This was the diet of the crow of the three-masted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fireman's Telegram Steamer Suva Delayed SYDNEY
Because a fireman suddenly remembered that he had to send a telegram, the sailing of the steamer Suva, for Fiji was delayed for an hour and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner Wrecked Auckland
The schooner Koa, bound from Auckland to Norfolk Island, has been wrecked at light flay, near the North Cape where the steamer Karu was lost recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Harbour Bar Steamer Doonholm Bumps
Captain A. Sangster, the Deputy Superintendent of Navigation, reported yesterday that as a result of further soundings taken by officers of the department, it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →W.A. Cut Off No Steamer Services MELBOURNE
The steamship service between Eastern and Western Australia have been entirely discontinued. No coal is available, and the entire passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Iron Master Anchor Recovered at Sea
A remarkable incident involving the recovery of a lost anchor, was connected with the last trip of the B.H.P. Company's steamer Iron Master, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Pilot Steamer Ajax Construction at Walsh Island Sydney
Letters received by Messrs. J. M. Baddeley and D. Murray, M'sP., from the Public Works Department, intimate that arrangements have been made with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Wrecked All Passengers Safe AUCKLAND
The steamer Manala has been wrecked. Her passengers, however, are safe. A message advises that the Ngapuhi…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Manaia Wreck Passengers All Safe Aground in N.Z. WATERS Pantomime Company's Plight AUCKLAND
The passengers from the steamer Man[?]a, which struck a reef near Slipper Island, in the Bay of Plenty, on her way from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Aground Some Men Picked Up Efforts to Rescue Others (Australian Cable Association.) TOKIO
The steamer City of Naples, bound to Yokohma from Kobe, with a cargo of steel, struck it submerged reef yesterday morning during a storm. The Cheefoo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dense Fog Steamer Gwydir Delayed
Owing to the dense fog the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Gwydir, which left Sydney at 12.7 a.m. to-day, did not arrive in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tricky Trotsky British Government May Be Wrecked Ministers in Conflict Churchill Sick of "Pretence of Friendly Relations"
The Russian question threatens to wreck the present British Cabinet, and the views of Ministers are in sharp conflict. Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Churchill are denouncing the Soviet and all its 100rks and Sir Austen Chamberlain threatens to resign if the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Back on Rails Wrecked Express Engine ABERDEEN
After a hard day's work the breakdown gang sent to clear away the debris caused by the Brisbane express smash, got the heavy engine,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our New Zealand Letter Wellington, June 17. Wrecked on the Coast
The Manaia, one of the Northern Company's coastal steamers, with headquarters at Auckland, piled up on the rocks of Watchman Island, off Slipper…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Aground in Newcastle Harbour Steamer Suveric Towed Off by Four Tugs
While proceeding to sea from Newcastle shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday night the Andrew Weir steamer Suveric, which called here for bunkers…
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