Steamer Ablaze Coal Cargo for Australia LONDON, August 31
The British steamer Rhymney, bound from Immingham to Melbourne with coal has sent a radio message, stating that she is on fire in the Indian Ocean,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
284 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 15
Steamer Rammed Seventy Lives Lost Collision in Dense Fog (Australian Press Association.) San Francisco, August 31
Seventy lives were lost yesterday morning when the coasting steamer San Juan was rammed and sunk in a dense fog by the Standard Oil Company's tanker S. C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sixty Killed Building Collapses 120 Buried in Wreckage Algiers, August 31
A four-story tenement building, occupied by 21 Italian labourers and their families, collapsed on Thursday night, burying about 120 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glass Crash Dealer's Horse Bolts Boys to Rescue Fragile Cargo Wrecked
Bottles flew in all directions when a home, attached to a bottle-cart, bolted through the streets of New Lambton shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defective Lifeboat Sydney
For having failed to keep the lifeboat and other life-saving apparatus in working order, McEnally Hros, and Co., owners of the lighter Marie, were fined £3 at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mishap on Steamer
Emil Akerman (27), a seaman employed on the steamer Iron Monarch, fell from the bows of the vessel to the wharf at North Stockton yesterday. Suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Plane Wrecked American Air Disaster Eight Occupants Killed (Australian Press Association.) CALLUP (New Mexico), September 4
It is reported that the big Continental Air Transport Company's 'plane, City of San Francisco, which had been missing since early yesterday, was struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Schooner Wrecked Crew and Cargo Saved Suva, September 7
The auxiliary schooner Manoa foundered 17 miles from Levuka, near Makohai, yesterday, with a cargo of logs, but the crew were rescued. The owner, Mr. Macindoe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mission Steamer's Record
The well-known mission steamer, John Williams, which has been on the water for over 35 years, will leave Sydney to-day for the Solomon Islands, and will not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eighty Drowned Lake Steamer Capsizes Disaster in Finland Helsingfors, September 8
The worst disaster in Finland's history occurred when the lake steamer Kuru with 200 passengers aboard, left Tammerfors in the height of a storm and turned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked on Mount Missing Air Liner Located Los Angeles, September 7
The wreckage of the missing trans-continental airplane City of San Francisco' was found to-day on Mount Taylor (New Mexico) All the occupants were dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dashed Into Hold Five Ship's Painters Hurt Stage Gave Way Accident on Steamer Iron Monarch
Five men working in the hold of the steamer Iron Monarch, lying at North Stockton, had a miraculous escape from death when a spawl supporting the plank on which they were standing gave way, causing them to fall 20 feet to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crews Coolly Face Death on Blazing Oil Tankers Shipping's Black Day Crews' Daring Prevents Heavy Loss of Life Liner Wrecked on Rock Five Dead and 10 Missing in Tanker Vimeria Blaze LONDON
Disastrous fires on two oil tankers, with the crews facing a fearful death in heroic efforts to save the vessels, and the loss of a British passenger steamer off the coast of Spain, marked a black day for shipping. Remarkable coolness and daring shown by the crews, in keeping with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Pappinborra Blown Ashore at Point Stephens :: Crew Landed Message from Scene of Stranding Gale Lashed Coast Landslide Holds Up Trains on the Northern Line Floods Feared on Hunter
The Navigation Department at Newcastle received a message this afternoon that a steamer had gone ashore at Point Stephens, near the lighthouse. A later message said that the vessel is the North Coast Company's steamer Papinbarra. The message added that the crew had been landed safely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liner Wrecked Discipline Prevents Disaster Everyone Safely Landed (Australian Press Association.) VIGO (Spain), September 9
Preserving admirable order and discipline, all the 60 passengers and 150 officers and crew were safely landed when the Nelson liner Highland Pride struck…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pappinbarra Ashore at Shelly Beach
During the height if the storm about 5.30 yesterday morning, the coastal steamer Pappinbarra, which had left Port Macquarie for Sydney on Tuesday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Belgian Steamer Sunk London, September 11
The Belgian steamer Estrella, of 758 tons. sank in the Scheldt as the result of a collision with German steamer. Two of the crew were saved, and 13, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anniversary of Wreck
To-day is the 51st anniversary of the wreck of the steamer City of Newcastle. This crack passenger packet of the period was on her way from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lifebelts From Wreck Sydney
Big quantities of rubbish were washed through Sydney Heads during the day by huge seas. Baulks of timber, kerosene tins, fruit, and a string of lifebelts were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Bonalbo in the Cyclone
The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Bonalbo arrived at Newcastle yesterday from Port Stephens, after having experienced a severe…
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