Food Gone, Almost Exhausted, Missing Fishermen Saved by Pilot Ship Grim Ordeal Two Days Adrift in Open Sea Food Gone-exhausted Picked Up by the Newcastle Pilot Steamer Birubi
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 September 1930 · page 7
With their food supply rationed down to the last slice of bread and scarcely a cup of water in, the tank, the missing crew of the Newcastle fishing launch, Felix, Messrs. Knight, J. Cook and A. Carr, was picked up in the last stages of exhaustion by the Pilot steamer, Birubi, 10 miles, south-east of Newcastle this afternoon…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 5
When the Royal Packet Navigation Company's steamer Nieuw Zealand arrived at Brisbane this morning, from Batavia, on its way to southern ports,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£1,600,000 SPECIE Wreck of Egypt Located Italian Divers Begin Work London, September 1
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 5
After long months of search, Italian divers have located the wreck of the P. and O. liner Egypt, off Ushant, and are now attempting to obtain the specie…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 6
The Methodist mission schooner John Wesley struck the Argo reef, near Oneata, Fiji and sank in 18ft. A salvage party has been despatched. The crew was…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 7
Dr. R. Cilento, Director of the Queensland Division of Tropical Hygiene, announced to-day that when the steamer Changte, from Japan, anchored at…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 7
The Adelaide Company's freighter, Allara, went aground inn Freeman's Channel, Moreton Bay, when coming from Melbourne, via ports, with…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 1
Twenty-three years ago—on March 6, 1907—the wedding bells at Carrington informed the world that Lewis George Burnett and…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 3
Further reductions in Interstate steamer passenger fares are announced. It has been decided to offer a…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 7
The tramp steamer Malmesbury, bound for the Cape with a loud of maize, struck a roof near Cape Columbine in a thick for last night. A Capetown tug rescued…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 6
The minimum first-class rate in interstate steamers plying between Sydney and Melbourne having been lately reduced from £4/5/ to £3/15, it was expected…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 8
Three times of prepared opium were found last night by Customs officers in the possession of two Tonkinese members of the crew of the Commandante…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 8
A snappy system for policemen to rescue would-be suicides from the water without getting their own clothes wet has been discovered by a…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 6
A snappy system for policemen to rescue would-be suicides from the water without getting their own clothes wet has been discovered by a…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5
The steamer Jodmoor, bound from Lautoka to Labase stranded on a reef off Ladase River, Fiji Inside Mail Island Knocking a hole in her forepeak. She is…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 8
The steamer Jodmoor, which stranded on a reef off Labasa River, Fiji, when bound from Lautoka to Labasa, was refloated last night without assistance. The…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 4
With here engines partly out of commission, the steamer Sheafe Holme limped into Sydney Harbour to-day, and later proceeded to dock for repairs…
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The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 1
Lifeboats from Margate, Deal, and Claxton put out to-day to assist two vessels Id distress. The London coastal steamer…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 9
Several vessels were driven ashore to-day by the gale, which is raging in the English Channel, but…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 5
Swerving to avoid a pedestrian a motor 'bus travelling from Brighton to Melbourne mounted a rockery and crashed into a tree in St. Kilda-road yesterday…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 4
Caught by the incoming tide in the river this morning while berthing, the steamer Nieuw Zealand had a very narrow cause from grounding…
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