Motau Wrecked End of Well-known Sailer SUVA
The auxiliary schooner, Motau, owned by Burns, Philp and Company, has been wrecked off Bua Island, Vanua Levu. All hands are safe…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
Missing Waratah South African Wreckage LONDON, May 17
The theory that the sunken ship seen by an African airman on the cliffs near East London, South Africa, is the Waratah, which disappeared mysteriously…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Light Steamer No Walsh Island Tender Cockatoo Estimate Canberra
The Public Works Committee was informed by Mr. James Flenning, principal mechanical engineer of the Commonwealth Works Department this morning, that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'Plane Wrecked Struck Cow Near Inverell Airman Seriously Injured Inverell
When taking off from a locality known as Beasley's paddock, near Graman, 15 miles from Inverell, yesterday afternoon, a Moth aeroplane, piloted by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor Baronet May Wreck Macdonald Government Breakers Ahead Labor's Ship of State Rocking Tories Also Beaverbrook Repudiates Baldwin LONDON
The critical moment in the Mosley drama-- the resigns. tion from the Government of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Sir Oswald Mosley) on the unemployment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Ablaze 100 Believed to be Dead Flames Uncontrollable Jeddah, May 22
The French Steamer Asia, carrying 1500 pilgrims to southern Red Sea ports, suddenly caught fire in the harbour at life…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Drowned Motor Boat Wrecked Tragic Swim to Rescuers Brisbane
The double drowning tragedy occurred at Bustard Heads, near Gladstone, last night. The victims were two young men, Allen R. Williams, married, and Sidney Bickle,…
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Eighteen nations were represented at the annual meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, at which Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COST £10,000 South African Tug Wrecked CAPETOWN, May 24
The new Dutch-built tug St. Croix, which cost £10,000, ran on the rocks two hours out of Walvis Bay last night. The boiler and engine-rooms were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Burning Steamer Sunk Honolulu, May 25
The steamship City of Honolulu, which is on fire at the clock, is being sunk to prevent the explosion of 16,000 barrels of oil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nut From Bridge Ferry Steamer Struck SYDNEY
An iron nut weighing about 2lb fell from the northern arm of the Sydney Harbour Bridge this morning and struck the ferry steamer Kuttabul. The nut hit…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Missing Pleasure Steamer on Bank SYDNEY, Thursday Morning
After discharging passengers at Brighton-le-Sands last night, the pleasure steamer Favourite was returning to Sans Souci[?] when she…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Towed to Sydney Disabled Jap. Steamer SYDNEY
Wallowing hopelessly in the tow of the tug St. Olaves, the Japanese freighter, Kyokkah Mar[?] reaching Sydney at 8 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Safety Suits for Wrecks
Safety suits for keeping the wearers afloat and warm in the sea have been invented from time to time. An Italian invention differs from previous safety suits…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Crew Rescued Ketch Completely Wrecked MELBOURNE
The Deputy-Director of Navigation (Captain Bolger) to-night received a message from the steamer Colloboi that the ketch Joseph Sims went ashore at Passage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale Havoc Extensive Damage in Sydney Narrow Escapes Two Small Steamers Blown Ashore SYDNEY
Last night the gale from the south-west caused extensive damage in the suburbs and played havoc with craft moored in Sydney Harbor and inlets along the coast. The gusts often reached 40 and 50 miles an hour, and at one period 57 miles an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Killed Tamworth Disaster 'Plane Crashes Wreckage Falls in Street TAMWORTH
Horrified spectators saw Pilot Frank Mitchell, a well-known filer, and Harvey West, 25, a Manilla business man, crash to then deaths when an aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paris Express Smash Deliberate Wreck Eight Persons Killed Paris
EIGHT persons were killed and 31 injured—one of the killed and three of the injured being English women—when the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Wrecked End of Joseph Sims Crew Reaches Launceston Launceston (Tas.)
The crew of the wrecked schooner Joseph Sims, which struck a rock near Flinders Island on Friday night, arrived here on the steamer Colloboi to-day. They…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Damage Coaster Blown Ashore Small Craft Suffer Sydney
Smal craft suffered badly in last night's south-westerly gale. A coastal steamer and a hulk were driven ashore at North Woolwich, and many small launches and…
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