Fire on Steamer Ningchow At Bunbury Wool Cargo Ablaze Perth
With a wool and general cargo blazing fiercely, and with lifeboats ready for immediate use, the Blue Funnel liner Ningchow put into Bunbury late this…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 14
Iron Monarch Ore Steamer Refloated Swanley Now Aground Adelaide
After having been aground since Tuesday week on a bank in Spencer's Gulf the steamer Iron Monarch was refloated to-day. The Steamer will leave for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →All-night Fight Fire on Steamer Ningchow Leave Bunbury To-night Perth
A Bunbury message states that the fire brigade, assisted by harbour officials, fought the fire aboard the Ningchow all tight, and had it well under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Cable News Patrol Vessel Wrecked
Vancouver, March 1.—The fisheries' patrol vessel, Thiepval, a former British naval minesweeper, struck an uncharted rock off the British Columbia coast, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cholera Outbreak Steamer in Quarantine Suva, March 3
The steamer Sutlej, which arrived here on February 28, from Calcutta, was fumigated, and pratique granted, although there was a case of cholera landed at…
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The Federal liner Cornwall, bound from New Plymouth to London, went ashore at Curacao. She is resting on the port bow, and is not making water. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ASHORE Federal Liner Cornwall LONDON
The Federal liner Cornwall, bound from New Plymouth (New Zealand) to London, is ashore at Curacoa (Dutch West Indies). The port turbine is out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Wrecked Crew of 32 Missing Tokio, March 4
The freighter Fukuju Maru was wreaked near Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaide in the north off Japan, during a blizzard yesterday. It is believed that…
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London, March 5.—The steamer Cornwall, ashore at Curacao, is leaning forward. She is afloat aft, but the bows are hanging on the rocks…
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Suva, March 5.—The man suffering from cholera on the steamer Sutlej has recovered and if there is no new case, the steamer will be released from quarantine…
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Dorman Long, and Co.'s steamer, Sir T. Hugh Bell, which has been engaged carrying granite from Moruya for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, has been sold to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Fire on P. and O. Mail Steamer at Colombo Blaze on Comorin Passengers Awakened at Night Bundled Ashore Long Fight Against Fire in Cargo COLOMBO
A midnight outbreak of fire on the P. and O. liner, Comorin, which arrived from Australia yesterday, caused the passengers to be hurriedly brought ashore. They spent the night in an hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on Liner Comorin at Colombo Passengers Ashore (Australian Press Association.) COLOMBO, March 13
Fire broke out on R.M.S. Comorin (15,132 tons) while the vessel was making for Colombo. The Comorin arrived here at midnight last night, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Swam to Shore Foundered Boat's Crew Two Days Without Food Perth
Foundering three miles off Wedge Island, about 45 miles north of Fremantle, the crew of five of the steam launch Arab had a perilous experience…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Refloated. London, March 17
The British steamer Cornwall, bound from New Plymouth (N.Z.) to London, which ran aground at Curacao (Dutch West indies), has been refloated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Verdict for £8763 Steamer Damages Wharf. Rockhampton
The Ocean Steamship Company was today ordered, to pay £8763 costs, by Mr. Justice Brennan, in the Supreme Court. This was the amount of damage the jury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Sorry Plight Shipwrecked Crew Rescue Efforts Perth
Strenuous efforts are being made to reach the five men who landed the other day at an isolated spot from the wreck of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lighthouse Steamer Work for Cockatoo Dock CANBERRA
A new lighthouse steamer is to be constructed at Cockatoo Island dockyard, without delay, at a cost of £120,000, to replace the Kyogle in the West…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Canadian Steamer Seizure by U.S. Marshal Protest Made to Ottawa Seattle, March 19
The steamer Chief Capilano, owned by the Canadian-American Shipping Co., of Vancouver, was boarded and "seized" by a United States marshal when allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Seized International Complications Sequel to Collision Vancouver, March 20
The status of the British Admiralty Court at Hongkong has been challenged by the United States' seizure of the Canadian-American Shipping Co.'s steamer…
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