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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928

278 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14

Steamer Gazana

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1928 · page 5

A radio message was received at the Newcastle office of Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, about 2 p.m. yesterday, from Captain Mann, of the British-India…

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Light Out Steamer Delayed

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 5

The Department of Navigation, replying to a letter from Newcastle Chamber of Commerce drawing attention to the fact that one of the…

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Steamer in Storm Gazana Reaches Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 6

The officers of the British-India steamer Gazana, which arrived at Newcastle on Wednesday night, after riding out the storm along the coast on Tuesday, told…

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A New "Steamer."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 15

Turning for a moment to developments in steam propelled vehicles, the Sentinel Waggon Works have introduced a new heavy duty, high speed, 3-way tipper,…

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More Bodies? Searching Wreckage Steamer White Bay

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 July 1928 · page 5

It In possible that some of the miming men will be found when the White Bay Is finally broken up. During the week-end an…

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White Bay Wreck Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 4

A great deal of interest centres around the inquest to be held by Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, at the Newcastle Courthouse on Thursday afternoon, into…

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Cruiser Wrecked Ran on to Reef in a Thick Fog No Lives Lost Vessel Balanced Precariously on Reef HALIFAX (Nova Scotia)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 1

With her bells ringing what seemed to be her own funeral dirge, the british light cruiser Dauntless, WHICH is stranded on a shoal in Halifax Harbor, presented a pathetic spectacle.As each succeeding wave battered against the vessel,the…

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No Bodies Found Wrecked White Bay

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 5

According to a member of the uralla salvage party, who visited the wreck of the white Buy to-day, in Stockton bight, a hole had…

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White Bay Wreck No Bodies Found

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 4

Any impression which might have been formed that one or more bodies of the missing members of the crew of the wrecked steamer White Bay were…

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White Bay Wreck Inquest On the Death of Cook Body on Sand Rocket Seen When The Vessel Was Beyond Help

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 7

The inquest into the death of Alfriedo Badolati, the Italian cook of the ill-fated White Bay, whose body was washed ashore about 10 miles north of Stockton, when the little steamer was wrecked on June 14, was conducted by the Newcastle district…

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White Bay Wreck Inquest Opened Survivor Still in Hospital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1928 · page 7

Only one of the bodies of the men who lost their lives in the wreck of the little steamer White Bay on June 14 was recovered. It was that of Alfredo…

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Steamer on Fire Passengers Landed Safely Thames Thrill London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 1

With her oil bunker fearfully afire and flames and smoke belching from her ventilators, the 7800-ton steamer Carmarthenshire was beached at Erith…

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Wreck of a Transport Nearly 300 Lives Lost. Santiago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 5

The army transport Angamos sank on Saturday in Aurace Bay. Two hundred and ninety-one lives were lost as the result of the disaster,…

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291 PERISH Chilian Transport Wreck Captain Suicides Santiago (Chile)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 1

Four survivors, army conscripts, are all that remain of the Chillan transport ship Angamos, which sank with a loss of 291…

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Wreck of Transport Captain Kills Himself. Santiago (Chili)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1928 · page 5

Captain Corbeta Suatez, of the transport Angamos, committed suicide on the bridge when the vessel went down in Arauco Bay, on Saturday carrying to…

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Uralla Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1928 · page 3

The Uralla wreck will be offered at auction by Mr. F. R. Strange, auctioneer, at 3 Hamilton-street, Sydney, at noon on Friday…

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Wreck of the Cawarra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 6

Yesterday was the sixty-second anniversary of the wreck of the steamer Cawarra on the Oyster Bank at the entrance to Port Hunter. The only…

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Uralla Wreck John Brown a Bidder Spirited Contest Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 9

Mr. John Brown, the coal magnate, and Mr. E. S. Budrodeen, the Wellknown Sydney murine contractor, met to-day in a spirited bout of bidding…

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Ketch Over 100 Years Old

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1928 · page 7

A vessel which can surely claim to be the world's oldest seagoing ship is the ketch Ceres, 52 tons, of Bode. Cornwall, which recently celebrated its 117th…

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Scuttling a Steamer. Remarkable Fraud Story

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1928 · page 7

An extraordinary story of how a steamer was bought and filled with a worthless cargo, highly insured, and then deliberately sunk off the Mediterranean…

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