Australian Tells of Dark Hours Dicing With Death Faced Death Captain's Cheery Good-bye as Ship Sank Tragic Wreck Scenes Australian's Dramatic Story of Sea Disaster
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 November 1928 · page 1
A graphic exclusive story of the scenes of horror attending the foundering of the 10,000-ton liner Vestris off the coast of the United States, at the cost of 122 lives, has been cabled to The Sun by Mr. W. W. Davies, an Australian journalist, who was for some time the New York correspondent of Sun Newspapers Ltd. and…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1928 · page 12
A remarkable steaming performance was achieved by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's twin-screw oil-burning turbine ship Mataroa, which, on her…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1928 · page 5
A disastrous accident occurred in the British Channel yesterday, when the lifeboat crew, which started in the teeth of it most violent gale, to…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1928 · page 5
The British Foreign Office was authorised Sir Harry Armstrong, the Consul-General in New York, to co-operate with Mr. Tuttle, the Federal Attorney, in the…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 November 1928 · page 5
Heartrending scenes have been witnessed following the lifeboat disaster at Rye, when sixteen men were drowned as a result of an attempt to rescue the crew…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 November 1928 · page 5
The German steamer Smyrna, which collided with and sank the Latvian schooner Alice and picked up the latter's survivors, is now ashore herself off…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 November 1928 · page 5
The Tango Maru is still in the same position on Ghibher Rock, according to the agents, Burns Philp and Company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Gale Steamer Breaks Up Crew Feared Lost (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 5
In addition to the 20 people killed ashore in Friday's great storm, it is feared that the crow of eleven members was lost when the steamer Eltham, 687…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 1
The fifteen Rye Harbor lifeboat men who were drowned on Thursday on their way to assist a shipwrecked crew, were buried in…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 7
Evidence given at the Federal Government's inquiry into the Vestris disaster yesterday showed that the Italian steamer Glorgio Chlesen was apparently within 35…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1928 · page 7
Fifteen of the seventeen lifeboatmen of Rye Harbour who lost their lives in last Thursday's storm were buried today in one grave in the churchyard of…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1928 · page 7
The Federal Government's inquiry into the loss of the Vestris was continued yesterday. One of the survivors, a waiter named…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 November 1928 · page 5
When the Federal inquiry into the wreck of the Vestris was resumed, the British expert, Captain M'Conkey, who is assisting the Commissioner, succeeded…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 1
Saturday's gale continues to rage over England. Twenty-three lives were saved and one lost when the New Brighton…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 5
The Carriboo, a cargo steamer, which left East London on Friday in a terrific storm, ran on the rocks 35 miles south. She was refloated by her own steam, but…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 5
Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign, Secretary, was a passenger in the White Star liner, Regina, which dashed to the rescue in mid-Atlantic, of the…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 4
The lighthousekeeper at Port Macquarie reported that a sudden squall of wind, about 10 a.m. this morning, capsized the lifeboat Dawn…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 5
The coastal vessel Excelsior, which, with water filling into the hold, was beached at Parsley Bay yesterday, was refloated early to-day and proceeded…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 1
The Spirit of Australia, the Ryan monoplane in 'which Flying-Officers Moir and Owens and Mr. Frank Hurley…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 1
The Spirit of Australia…
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