Crashed Into Post Moth 'Plane Wrecked Melbourne
When a Moth aeroplane took off from Portsea yesterday, it crashed into a telegraph post on the Portsea-road and was wrecked. The occupants, who escaped…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 15
Woman Stowaway Went to Sleep on Steamer MELBOURNE
While the steamer Karoola was on the way from Sydney to Melbourne a steward discovered a woman who had no ticket nor money to pay for one. On arrival at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kahika Ashore Mishap Near Gisborne Wellington (N.z.)
The Union S.S. Company's steamer Kahika ran ashore at Waikanae Beach, near Gisborne, during a southerly gale. The crew reached land safely. The vessel is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer on Fire London, October 22
The owners of the steamer Telemachus, 7480 tons, have received a radio message from the captain, stating that the fire which occurred in two holds when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hundred Lives Lost in Terrific Storm on Great Lakes Still Raging Worst Fears for 52 People on Ferry Steamer £2,000,000 DAMAGE Heroic Life Savers Rescue Canadian Ship's Crew CHICAGO
One hundred persons have lost their lives in a terrific storm which has been raging for three days, and is still as strong as ever, in the Great Lakes District. It is feared that 52 persons on one steamer alone were drowned. Loss of property amounts to £2,000,000, and about half that damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pappinbarra Wreck Sold
The steamer Pappinbarra, which went ashore at Port Stephens on September 11, during a fierce cyclone, was sole at auction in Sydney yesterday for £145, while…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Secret Motive Cowboy's Atlantic Flight Wreckage Found St. James (Newfoundland)
A radio message has been received from the steamer Scythia, stating that another ship, whose name is unknown, found aeroplane wreckage, colored…
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London, October 28.—Shipping reports reveal that the newly speeded-up P. and O. steamer Ballarat, which sailed simultancously with the Aberdeen steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hypatia Wrecked Struck Rock in Mist Capetown, October 29
The steamer Hypatia. which is employed in the direct cargo service with New York, grounded on the Whale Rock, a mile off Robben Island, at the entrance…
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All hope of salving the steamer Hypatis, which went ashore at the entrance to Table Bay, has been abandoned, and the crew have been taken from the wreck…
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Driven hard ashore on the inhospitable coast, a mile south of Cape Howe, the southern most point of N.S.W., the trawler,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Battle with Seas Saros's Life-boat Crew's Ordeal Aid for Wreck Got Lost in the Pitch Darkness SYDNEY
Seldom in the annals of marine heroism on the Australian coast has the story of the epic fight of the life-boat crew on the Saros, the Newcastle-Melbourne collier, to reach the wrecked trawler, Gunundaal, on Sunday night been equalled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →S.S. GUNNUNDAAL Ashore Off Cape Howe All Crew Safe Sydney
Further details regarding the vessel which went ashore on a reef near Cape Howe show that it was the well-known trawler Gunnundaal. The whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When Ship Struck Trawler Crew's Experiences Despaired of Rescue Second Mate Swims Ashore SYDNEY
Weary but light-hearted and jesting, the members of the crew of the wrecked Gunundaal arrived at Contral railway station by the Cooma mail…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gunundaal Mishap Unexplained Total Wreck Feared Sydney
Mystery shrouds the wreck of the trawler Gunundaal on a reef south of Cape Howe, on Sunday night, and no light is expected to be shed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ketch Sunk Collision With Manunda Marine Court Inquiry Sydney
An inquiry to-day into the sinking of the 45-ton ketch Sailor Prince, which resulted from a collision with the Adelaide Steamship Company's new motor…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Passengers Burn to Death in Wrecked Air Liner Six Dead German 'Plane Hits Tree and Crashes in Fog Fuselage Explodes Rescuers Praise Heroism of Two Injured Survivors LONDON
Eye-witnesses of the disaster to the German Lufthansa Company's air liner, T903, which crashed in flames at Narden Park, between Godstone and Caterham to-day, heard a terrific roar like thunder, accompanied by an awful ripping sound as the liner hit the trees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Died on Steamer Byron Bay
William Kedlett, aged 67, of Collaroy, Sydney, died aboard the steamer Wollongbar while at sea on his way to spend a holiday in Queensland. His remains will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Pirates Passenger Steamer Captured Warships Searching (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, November 9
Reports of another sensational piracy on the China coast reached here to-day, following the mysterious disappearance of the steamer Kwangchi, of 1000 tons, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whalers' Peril Monster Wrecks Boat Sydney
Six Twofold Bay whalers had an exciting experience yesterday, when a big humper whale they were endeavuring to capture, smashed the boat with a lash of…
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