Steamer Service Vancouver-australia Ottawa, July 20
Mr. James Malcolm, Canadian Minister for Trade and Commerce, has announced that a contract for a complete steamer service from British Columbia ports to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 15
Cawarra Wreck
Sir,âMr. Frederick Valentine Hedges, the late sole survivor of the wreck of the steamer Cawarra on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle in the year 1866, was saved by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Yacht Wreck Journalist Missing Newcastle Inquiry
An investigation was held by the deputy coroner at Newcastle Court House to-day into the wrecking of the rawl Erica, at Catherine Hill Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Yacht Catherine Hill Bay Disaster Coronial Inquiry
"There is no doubt in my mind that the unfortunate, man was drowned, although his body could not be found," was the statement made by Constable M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Lifeboat for English Channel
There was launched at Cowes recently the largest lifeboat in the world (says the Cowes correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph")…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Missing Launch Wrecked Swept on to Reef Sydney
While making for Sydney from Kiama last night the launch Bobby was buffeted by huge seas and was swept on to a reef near Port Hacking. The crew of four were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →112 Lost in Steamer "Unfit to Face Perils of the Sea" OVERLOADED Reasons Why S.S. Vestris Was Lost Court Finding "Insufficient Margin of Stability and Buoyancy" LONDON
Overloading, the tender condition of the ship, insufficient margin of stability and buoyancy, heavy weather and high winds, were among the contributory causes of the loss, with 112 lives, of the steamer Vestris, on November 12, last year, off the Atlantic coast of the United States,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Overloaded" Loss of the Vestris Wreck Commissioner's Finding Not Fit to Face Perils (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, July 31
After the most protracted marine inquiry in British history, Mr. Butler, Aspinall, K.C., as Wreck Commissioner, to-day, answered seriatim the 58 questions put by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schooner for South Sea Giant Dirigible Service Mooted
NEW SCHOONER LAUNCHED.—A 52ft auxiliary schooner for the South Sea Island trade was launched at the yards of Mr. C. A. M. Fisher, at La Perouse. The new schooner was built to the order of Mr. J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Old Steamer's End Link with Mining Days
The old coastal steamer Waimarie reached Auckland, after being towed from Paeroa by the launch Sambo (says the "Auckland Herald"). The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coastal Steamer SYDNEY
Interstate Steamships, Limited Scott-Fell and Company, have decided to build a new steamer for the interstate trade, With a capacity of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Catarrh Dangerous. Often Makes Victims Worn-out, Run-down Wrecks
To be able to breathe freely, hear clearly, smell, taste, and arise in the morning refreshed and strong, with head and throat clear, and free from phlegm,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eighteen Missing in Midnight Collision in North Sea Sea Crash Steamer and Large Tug 18 MISSING Crew Jumps as the Vessel Sinks LONDON
Four officers and 14 men of the Spanish steamer. Ogono, 2406 tons, are missing as a result of. a collision 30. miles from the Humber Mouth, in the North Sea, at 1 a.m. Hampered by the darkness, the rescuing vessels could…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Rammed Tug Sinks Tramp Off Humber Mouth Eighteen Men Missing (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, August 18
Thirty miles from the Humber mouth at 3 o'clock this morning the Middlesborough ocean-going tug. King's Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Towed to Port Burning Cargo Steamer Capetown, August 20
The steamer King Cadwallen, 5120 tons, which was abandoned when her cargo of coal caught fire when the vessel was on her way from Durban to Australia last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Irish Air Mail Transfer From Steamer Dublin, August 20
The Irish Free State Post Office has sanctioned an experiment for transferring mails from the N.D.L., liner Karlsruhe, when she arrives at Galway, to a plane,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ten Killed Paris-Warsaw Express Wrecked Disaster Near Cologne Cologne, August 25
Ten passengers were killed and 38 injured, 13 of them seriously, when the Paris-to-Warsaw express jumped the rails while travelling fast through Buir…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gas Explosion Sydney Office Wrecked Sydney
Escaping gas ignited in the basement of Chatham House, 103 Pitt-street, to-day, and the explosion that followed completely wrecked a ground floor office and damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision at Sea American Steamer Sunk San Francisco, August 29
The coastal steamer San Juan was sunk in a collision 30 miles south of here. She carried 35 passengers and a crew of 4[?] Many were picked up and the loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Harbor Crash Steamer Hits Wharf "Tricky" Corner
The interstate trader, Koomilya, crashed into the A.A. Company's wharf at 6.45 a.m. to-day while swinging round from the steel works…
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