Uralla Ashore on Stockton Beach All Hands Safe
Buffeted by the storm, the North Coast Company's steamer Uralla of 520 tons gross register, was driven ashore on Stockton Beach, about 16 miles north of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
278 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 14
'So Terrible' Survivor's Story Washed Ashore How White Bay Sank
"It was all so terrible. I would like to forget some parts of that awful night. I with we all could have been saved, but with such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →White Bay Wreck on Morna Point Only One Survivor
The small coastal steamer White Bay foundered on Morna Point, about 15 miles north of Newcastle, after a hopeless struggle in the hurricane. Only one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BEACHED Uralla is a Hopeless Wreck Crew's Escape No Steering Gear in Height of Gale
With its back broken and firmly embedded in sand, the North Coast steamer Uralla is high and dry on Boyce's Beach, about 16 miles from Stockton, apparently a hopeless wreck. The crew of 17 is safe and will remain on the vessel until…
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Two of the crew, TV. Erickson and J. Halliday, were members of the crew of the ill-fated Wallombo. another North Coast steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Uralla. Total Wreck Feared. Back Believed Broken
Battered by the heavy seas, the North Coast S.N. Company's steamer Uralla still lies on the beach five miles south of Morna Point, and is likely to become a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sealing Vessel Wrecked Crew's Sorry Plight
Two thousand three hundred miles to rescue a shipwrecked crew is the story of the recent voyage of the 300-ton sealer Kildalkey from the Cape to Kerguelen…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Crew Signed on Steamer Aeon
A full crew signed on for the Australian Steamship Company's Aeon to-day. It was stated at the office of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baths Wrecked Toronto Appeals to Shire
Toronto public baths, with the exception of the dressing sheds, are almost a total wreck as a result of the wind storm which swept over the lake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →60,000 Passenger Steamer LONDON
The keel of a 60,000-ton passenger steamer ordered recently by the While Star Line, and which will cost nearly £7,000,000, is being laid by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Yarra Valuable Salvage. Brisbane
The party which left Sydney on March 26 to proceed to the wreek of the Norwegian vessel Yarra in Gizo Harbaur, in the Solomon Group, reached Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Italia Wreck Relief Expeditions Making Good Progress (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
Although the condition of the castuways from the wrecked Italia is unknown, relief planes and steamers are making good progress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Italia Wreck Larsen's Plane Seen (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
With regard to the report that Lieutenant Reiser Larsen, the Norwegian aviator, had flown over the spot which General Nobile last indicated as his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Lowana Leaves Newcastle Unloaded
Owing to the refusal of the wharf labourers to work the Melbourne S.S. Company's steamer Lowana, which was to have loaded a quantity of steel products…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Plane Finds Castaways from Wrecked Italia Supplies Dropped Vain Search for Landing Place Nobile's Thanks Airship Castaways Jump for Joy LONDON
The Italia castaways have at least been definitely located. The Italian airman, Commander Maddelina, guided by wireless, discovered the camp, and, after vain endeavors to find a landing place, dropped 6001bs. of food, rifles,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sold for £22 10s White Bay Wreck SYDNEY
The wreck of the While Bay an the lien on Stockton Bench was sold by question to-day. by Fraser, Uther and Co., for £22 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shooting Affray on the Steamer Tampa. Brisbane
Carl Muller, the fourth engineer of the American steamer Tampa, died in Brisbane Hospital this morning from the gunshot wounds he received during the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sails To-night Steamer Yarra Gets Crew
The steamer Yarra, one of the first vessels to become involved in the cooks' dispute, picked up a crew today, ana is due to sail from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reckless Stowaways Pay Penalty for their Folly on the Jervis Bay Stowaways Gaoled Court Sequel to Jervis Bay Trouble Thrilling Story Deliberate Attempt to Set Fire to Steamer "Will Cut Officers to Pieces" Colombo
The eight stowaways on the Jervis Bay, on whom for nearly a week the eyes of the world have been focused, were to-day convicted on four of the five charges preferred against them, with the total imprisonment for each man of five months and two weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Yarra Safe Disabled in Cyclonic Storm Engineers' Good Work Burst Steam Pipe Put Vessel in Peril
SYDNEY, Wednesday. Swept before the gale while her engineers toiled in the heat of the engine room to make good defects in the machinery, the Huddart Parker steamer Yarra, which left Newcastle late…
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