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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 15
Early this morning a terrific explosion occurred in a two-storey city shop, in Victoria-street, known as Tam's hairdressing, tobacconist, and billiard saloon;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No tidings have been received of the missing airmen, Flight-Lieutenant Moir and Flying-officer Owen. The steamer Malabar, when 40, miles from Koepang, reported that no traces of the airmen were seen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This pedigreed Alsatian was brought from London on the Port Hardy to Mr. R. M. Gillice, of Ha wihorn, Vic. Chief-officer Leavett is giving him a rub before landing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Undertakers were at law in Newcastle District Court to-day. James Potter Meighan, funeral director, of King-street West, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While on the voyage out from Hamburg, the D.A.D.G. steamer Gera, which arrived in Melbourne this week, sighted an iceberg in the waters south of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was an echo of the wreck of the small steamer White Bay in Stockton Eight, during the gales of last winter, at the sittings of the Newcastle District…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Forty days out from Gray's Harbor, America, the Ethel M. Sterling arrived in Newcastle Harbor to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Alaska Steamship Company's liner Aleutian struck a rock in Uyak Bay, Alaska, yesterday, and sank. The crew of 135, and 16 passengers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swept into the sea from an overturned yacht in Catherine Hill Bay, about.4 a.m. to-day, James Carpenter ,(25) was rescued, clad in a singlet, about two-and-a-half hours later. Jeffrey M. Jacoby, the other man on board, is still missing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thinking they were in a safe haven, James Carpenter and Geoffrey Jacoby, who were on their way from Broken Bay to Brisbane, in the 25-ton auxiliary yacht Erica, put into Catherine Hill Bay when they stuck engine trouble on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although exhausted after a two-hours struggle with the waves, James Carpenter, the survivor of the wreck of the 25-ton yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although an intensive search has been made along the beach, and a sharp lookout kept by the police, there is no trace of Geoffrey Jacoby, the man reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A small dinghy which was carried by the auxiliary yacht Erica when she was wrecked at Catherine Hill Bay on Saturday, has been recovered by Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Carpenter the survivor of the wreck of the yawl Erica, at Catherine Hill Bay on Saturday, is still an inmate of Newcastle Hospital, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When James Carpenter, the survivor from the yawl Erica, which was wrecked in Catherine Hill Bay, came out of the hospital, ho found that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was a lovely spring day, and Ronnie and May had taken their new boat to Ball In the Round Fond In Kensington Gardens…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The 'plane belonging to Mr. Van Lear Black, the American millionaire, which was anchored at the Dum Dum aerodrome prior to being broken up for shipment to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Japanese steamer Baikal Maru (5243 tons), which went aground on an islet off South Korea on Tuesday, and was first reported to be a total…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., received a radio message from Salamon, yesterday, stating that the wooden ketch, Vella, has been wrecked off Finschaven, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some damage was sustained by the all burner Galveston, and Thorstieu Johannson, aged 27, a greaser, was severely burned about the face, arms, and body,…
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