Steamer Wrecked Crew Rescued Shanghai
The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer, Gressen was today wrecked on Button Rock, 80 miles from Shanghai, late on Tuesday night. The vessel was from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 15
Ship Ashore Sydney Harbor Mishap SYDNEY
The big motor ship Tricolor is ashore in Sydney Harbor, together with the tug Hero, which is wedged in between the Tricolor and the shore…
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The following radio was received by the Acting Deputy Director of Navigation, Captain Mathieson, this afternoon from the steamer Nirvana:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Ashore Motor Ship and Tug Both Refloated Sydney
There was a sensational mishap on the Lane Cove River this afternoon, when the Norwegian motor ship Tricolor and the tug Hero went aground off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Smallpox Suspected Outbreak on Steamer Adelaide
A wireless message from the British India line steamer Woodara states that a members of the crew is a victim of what is believed to be an outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schooner on Fire Crew of Two Safe Sydney
The small fishing schooner Ventura caught fire and was burnt to the water's edge off Cape Hawke to-day. The two men in the vessel, David and William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner Adrift HONOLULU
The schooner, Marshal Foch, which Zane Grey, the novelist, has used for three seasons catching sword fish and sharks in New Zealand waters, lost it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SAFE! Byrd Finds Marooned Men Terrific Storm 'Plane Blown Away and Wrecked Bay of Whales
Safe and well, despite an unforgettable experience with fierce gales, Professor Larry Gould, Bernt Balchen, and Harold June, whose continued silence had caused Byrd to be…
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The Dover-Ostend Ville de Leige went aground at Dover, while making the harbor in fierce and bitter weather. The pass [?]ngers including 10 women, were taken ashore in lifeboats, suffering severely front the cold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A New Lifeboat Rye Disaster Recalled Gallant Villagers London
To fight the disaster of last November, when the Rye lifeboat capsized, 17 men—half of Rye Harbor's manhood—being wiped out, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Schooner Alleged Rum-runner Sunk Off Honduras Ambassador's Inquiry (Australian Press Association.) New York
It is reported from New Orleans that the British auxiliary schooner Imalone, suspected of being a contraband carrier, has been sunk off the American coast in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wharf Wrecked S.S. Canberra Hit It BRISBANE
There was excitement on the water-front this morning when the Interstate steamer Canberra crashed into the Queen-street wharf, doing much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cowardly Attack Angry Schooner Captain Sunk by Coastguard Halifax (Nova Scotia)
The captain of the schooner Imalone, which was sunk by a U.S. constguard cutter as a suspected rumrunner. Is known In British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SUNK Norwegian Cargo-steamer Selji Night Crash Foundered 120 Miles from Coast MELBOURNE
The circumstances of the foundering of the Norwegian cargo steamer Selji 120 miles off the Victorian coast at 10.30 last, night, are not yet definitely known. It is assumed that the vessel which carried 100,000 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cable Snaps Uralla Still Ashore
Another attempt last night to salve the wrecked Uralla on Boyee's Beach failed when an anchor cable snapped. The ship had been moved a few feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Plane Wrecked Crew Seriously Injured Barcelona
When attempting a flight from Belgium to Belgian Congo the airman Vandervelde crashed on the coast. The machine was wrecked, and the pilot and mechanic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision at Sea Steamer Selje Sunk Crew's Story of Rescue Melbourne
The Norwegan wheat steamer Selja was sunk as the result of a collision with the Union Company's cargo steamer Kaituna, off the Victorian coast, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Rocks Surf Pounds Schooner to Pieces Man Drowned Anchors Dragged While Crew Slept Coffs Harbor
Five members of the crew of the auxiliary fishing schooner, Wanderer, had a narrow escape when the vessel was dashed to pieces in the breakers at Coff's Harbor early this morning. Harry Whear, aged 40, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Save Life Rafts Better than Lifeboats? Wreck Problem Sea Safety Methods for Review LONDON
A remarkable proposal to modify the "Boats for All" rule, by replacing lifeboats with a proportion of life rafts, which were freely used during the war-with favorable results, will be considered by the International Shipping Conference in London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Plane Wrecked Lancaster in Crash Kingston (Jamaica)
Captain Lancaster, who flew to Australia, in the "Red Rose," and is undertaking a flight around the Caribbean Sea, was slightly injured, and his 'plane totally…
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