Launch in Trouble Pilot Steamer Assists
Four residents of Newcastle East who were fishing in a motor launch, had an unenviable experience when about a mile south of Nobbys…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1927
220 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11
Stowaway Caught Hidden in Lifeboat SYDNEY
Securely hidden under cover of a life-boat on the upper deck of the Changic, a stowaway defied detection on the long voyage from Hongkong to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One Survivor British Schooner Lost Mexico City
The captain, and six of the crew, were drowned when the British schooner Caiman, bound from Havana to Belsize with a cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harbor Incident Steamer and Tug Collide
None the worse for a collision with J. Fenwick's tug Hero in the harbor yesterday evening, the Swedish steamer Unden sailed for America…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Steamer Olga Melbourne
A fire broke out among some sulphur in the hold of the steamer Queen Olga, unloading at Yarraville, and the clothes of William M'Shane, 32, a stevedore, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Smallpox Aboard Sydney-bound Steamer SUVA
A wireless message from the steamer Ganges, due at Sydney on Thursday with 500 Indians, says that there are 13 cases of smallpox aboard, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smallpox on a Steamer Suva
The steamer Ganges, from Calcutta, is due on Thursday. She has 540 Indian passengers. Smallpox has broken out on board, four deaths…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unlucky Steamer Chapter of Accidents LONDON
The steamer Hororata, well-known in Australian ports, grounded at the North Foreland, but was re-floated at high tide, and…
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The steamer Ganges, from India, wrth coolies, which has some cases of smallpox on board, will not enter Sura Harbour, but will proceed direct to the Nukulau…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rammed a Bridge Steamer Out of Control Bows Into Footpath Melbourne
The Laranah, a small coastal steamer, bound, from Melbourne to Launceston, rammed the Queen's Bridge head on at 1.30 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Cooma Story of Burning Sydney
A thrilling story of their escape from the burning steamer Cooma, on which they had been acting as caretakers, at North Reef, was told by M. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pirates Take a Steamer Hongkong
Pirates boarded the 6000-ton Chinese-owned British steamer Seangbee, and took her to their lair, at Bias Bay. They subsequently released the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federal Steamer Strikes Rock
While the Federal Liner Northumberland was steaming on the usual course from Auckland to Napier, between Tuahine Point and Gable-end Foreland, two…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mail Steamer Held Up Firemen Leave Orsova. Sydney
The Orient Company's mail steamer Orsova, which was scheduled to leave for London, via ports, yesterday, has been held up owing to the firemen walking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Search Fails Bodies Not Recovered Wrecked Collier Inquiry on Monday SYDNEY
Although a search hat been continued at Terrigal, the bodies, of the four men who were drowned when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Amok Sequel to Fog Collision Channel Peril Derelict's Engines Running
When a Norwegian steamer was abandoned after a collision in a fog in the English Channel, the engines started by some means…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Galava Wreck Preliminary Inquiry Held SYDNEY
The superintendent of State Navigation (Captain Morris) opened a preliminary inquiry to-day into the Wrecking of the s.s. Galava…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer's Narrow Escape
The steamer Kallatina, which reached Cairns on Friday, had a miraculous escape from becoming at total wreck on the Barrier Reef. The Kallatina left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cargo Raided Steamer from Shanghai Officers' Stories
Exciting moments were experienced by the officers and crew of the British steamer Doonholm, now in Newcastle harbor,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schooner Sunk LONDON, Tuesday Night
The City of Birmingham, which lc. Sydney on November 20, collided a Sarrow last, night with the motor schooner Hibernia, and sank her. The…
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