Shop Wrecked Mysterious Explosion Sydney
A mysterious explosion occurred this morning in Frank Massey's boot shop, in Homer-street Earlwood, doing considerable damage. Immediately afterwards a…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 15
The Lifeboat Disaster the Inquiry London
The Board of Trade inquiry into the Rye lifeboat disaster reported that probably the lifeboat capsized suddenly in a dangerous broken sea, and the crew were…
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After having drifted helplessly in the Atlantic for 20 days, the Norwegian steamer Ole Aarvold, which is not fitted with wireless, has been towed 350 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Disaster Lifeboat Crew Perishes Ill-fated Steamer London
The Latvian steamer Volka, which figured in the Rye lifeboat disaster in November, when the fifteen members, of the crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Chance 400 Perish in Sea Disaster Twenty Saved Chinese Steamer Lost in Heavy Sea Hong Kong
Sinking with tragic sudenness, and giving practically change of escape to those aboard, the China Merebant Steam Navigation Company's steamer Hsin Wab, 2000 tons, carried 300 passengers and 100 members of the crew with it to a watery grave…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PANIC! Chinese Steamer Disaster Fight for Life Belts Hong Kong
How frenzied passengers fought the crew and each other for possession of lifebelts and places in the lifeboats in the darkness while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Act of State" When Sub. Rammed Steamer Claim Dismissed London
The commander of the British submarine which rammed the steamer Irene in October, 1927, was sued here to-day for £100,000 for the loss of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of Hsin Wah Appalling Disaster Chinese Trapped Below (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI
Later reports of the sinking of the steamer Hsin Wah outside Hongkong Harbour reveal that although the vessel was equipped with wireless, there was no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Gabriella Ashore in Nelson's Bay
The interstate steamer Gabriella went ashore on a mud and sand bank off Salamander Bay, Port Stephens, on Friday. The vessel has not been refloated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sprang a Leak Steamer Allyn River Ran for Port Out of Dock Yesterday SYDNEY
While bound from Sydney to Newcastle, the well-known coaster, Allyn River, sprang a leak and was fortunate in making Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRECKED? Fears at Suva SUVA
While Mr. March, Customs Commissioner, and Mr. Wise, Works Commissioner, this morning were watching the storm on the reef, they saw a…
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Taken over by the Eastern and Australian Line as an extra cargo carrier, the steamer Mallina, of the A.U.S.N. Company, will be despatched from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Lost All Hands Missing Gale in the Atlantic (Australian Press Association.) New York
No trace has been found by ships which answered her S.O.S. call of the British steamer Tees Bridge, 3898 tones, and she is believed to have been lost with all hands,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Wreckers!" Protest From Stage
Sir Gerald du Maurier, the actormanager, surprised the audience at the St. James's Theatre, London, one nightly recently. There "The Play's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Milora Collision Narrowly Averted
Shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the A.U.S.N. steamer Milora narrowly averted a collision with the ferry steamer, Kurnell…
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Tons of peanuts, shovelled into the furnaces, saved the French cargo steamer, Belgar[?], 4943 tons, telegraphs the Marseilles…
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At high tide this afternoon the Dutch steamer Mereuke (6674 tons), which was beached last night at Hythe (Kent) and badly holed, was awash…
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At high tide yesterday afternoon the Dutch steamer Merauke, which was beached last night at Hythe, and was badly holed, was awash, with heavy seas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Havoc in Kitchen Husband Wrecked It Crockery Smashed
Arriving home drunk to 34 Kingstreet yesterday, Henry Worthington, 32, electric weider, wreeked the kitchen, According to evidence at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Matatua
The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Matatua has been sold to Mr. A. Bernstein, of Hamburg, for about £31,000. The Matatua is a twin screw steamer of 6518…
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