Iron Chief Wreck Salvage Party Returns Gear Saved Sydney
The salvage party from the Iron Chief returned to Sydney to-day after saving from the vessel the salvage gear valued at nearly £4000…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
278 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14
Sold for £160 Wreck of Iron Chief SYDNEY
A wreck for £160, and enough sleepers to lay over five miles of railway line for £390. Then the hammer fell at the auction…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cant Get Cook Steamer Yarra Cannot Sail Newcastle Trouble
The dispute between Huddart, Parker, Ltd. and the Federated Marine Cooks' Union has extended to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lighthouse Steamer Case Brisbane
The hearing of the case against H. Carrigan, who is charges with being directly concerned in the boycott of the lighthouse steamer Cape York, thus hindering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Still Held Up Steamer Yarra
The steamer Yarra is still held up in Newcastle harbor. "No cook has yet been obtained, and the position has not altered," said an official of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Killed in Sleep Miners in Landslide Wrecked Buildings Calcutta
At the Mudidih Colliery on the Jharia coalfield the collapse of mine pillars resulted in a subsidence of the land on which stood the miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lighthouse Steamer Case Brisbane
The hearing of the case against H. Carrington, who is charged with being directly concerned in the boycott of the lighthouse steamer Cape York, thus hindering the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crew Paid Off Steamer Yarra Trouble
Because a cook for the steamer Yarra, now in Newcastle Harbor, cannot be obtained, the vessel has been tied up and the crow paid off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Iron Chief Wreck Charge Made Against. Master Marine Court Inquiry Passing Boat Didn't Answer Signals' SYDNEY
As a sequel to the stranding of the steamer Iron Chief on Mermaid Reef on April 1, while on her voyage between Port Stephens and Coff's Harbor, the master of the vessel, E. M. Barron, at a Court of Marine Inquiry to-day, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tank of Death Epic Story of Shipwreck
Three men and two boys adrift for days in the water-tank of their ship; the death from exhaustion of the boys, unable longer to stand the strain of clinging to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Australia by Lifeboat No Word of Adventurers CALCUTTA
A month has passed without news being received here of Captain Budd and Mr. and Mrs. Hercombe, who are proceeding from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Entomb Explosion at Redbank (Q.) Mine Officials Trapped Wrecked Cages Hamper Searchers BRISBANE
Three officers of the Redbank colliery, near Brisbane, were entombed by an explosion this morning. The cages were destroyed, delaying the sending down of a rescue party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Steamer Kindur at Sydney SYDNEY
After a voyage from Glasgow, the steamer Kindur, the latest acquisition to the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Limited, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked by Earthquake
Philippopolis, in East Rumelia. It lies on the River Maritza, amidst granite Mill, three of which are included in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wilkins' Flight Eielson's Message Norwegian Steamer to Pick Them Up (Copyright to Australian Press Association and "New York Times.") New York
Captain Wilkins concludes his story of the Arctic flight, and forwards a message from Lieutenant Eielson, his fellow-aviator…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →May Refloat Part Iron Chief Wreck SYDNEY, Thrusday
Should the high hopes or the syndicate working on the wreck of the Iron Chief, which now lira with her back broken on Diamond Head beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Merimbula Wreck Master Exonerated. Sydney
Judge Scholes, with Captains Newton and Wood as assessors, to-day conducted an inquiry into the stranding of the steamer Merimbula near Abraham's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Steamer Changte Two Persons Lost Overboard. Brisbane
The steamer Changte, which arrived in Brisbane to-day had hall fated trip from Hongkong. The vessel left Hongkong on what is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Merimbula Sydney
In the Marine Court to-day. Judge Scholes said that after the adjournment of the inquiry into the standing of the coastal steamer. Merimbala on March 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked in Fog Glace Bay (Novia Scotia)
Wreckage from the Dutch steamer Callisto is scattered along the shore near Port Rowe, and indicates that the vessel, which struck a wreck on…
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