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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 14
Blown Ashore by All-Night Gale— —-Talkie Film Threatened by Fire
DRIVEN ASHORE by the gate.—Mr. G. Howe's new yacht broke her moorings and was washed on to the beach at La Perouse. THOUSANDS of feet of talkie film was in danger of exploding when the Gelbe Theatre (Sydney) caught alight. Firemen made a great save, the dress circle only being damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Loss of Schooner Charge Against Master MELBOURNE
The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day, began the hearing of a charge against Neil Forness for failure of duty on May 30, as result of which the auxiliary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SMOKES Customs Officials' Find on Italian Steamer Sydney
Cestoms searchers to-day discovered 300 cigars and 200 eigarettes under the oil tank in the engine room of the italian steamer Citta di Genova…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Loss of Schooner Marine Court's Decision MELBOURNE
The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day suspended for six months' the master's certificate of Neil Forness, Captain of the Auxiliary schooner Joseph Sims, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flaming Sea Oil Tanker Rammed at Night Many Cremated Passenger Steamer Limps Into Port BOSTON
Flaming seas of floating oil claimed 49 lives last night when the passenger steamer Fairfax, 5649 tons, rammed and sank the tanker Pinthis, 1111 tons. The Pinthis, which was carrying 12,000 barrels of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →49 Lives Lost When Oil Steamer Catches Alight in Open Ocean League Rugby Cessnock Hopes New Players
Cessnock will meet South Newcastle on the Showground, Cessnock, on Saturday. South Newcastle are loading in the competition and in view of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For New Zealand New Lighthouse Steamer LONDON, June 11
The New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr. T. M. Wilford) and Mrs. Wilford were present at the launching at Newcastle-on-Tyne of the 228ft. oil-burning…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In Peril Steamer in Heavy Gale Three Terrible Days Townsville
The officers and crew of the American steamer Beulah. on arriving in Townsville last night from San Francisco, reported terrifying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Terrific Fight" Off Newcastle Huge Seas First Steamer Arrives
Battered after a titanic 7[?] days' fight with a 80-mile-an-hour gale, the steamer Kaponga reached Newcastle from Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRECKED Glen Ayr Mine Flooded Out Salvage Work Futile
Millions of gallons of water rushed in the Glen. Ayr mine at 2 a.m. to-day. The three shafts were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Government To Be Asked to Help Maitland Flood Victims DESTRUCTION In Flood's Wake at Oakhampton Wreckage Piled Up
For the first time since the waters burst the embankment at Hall's Creek on Wednesday night, and carried away 100…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →River Mishap Steamer Aground
The steamer Minmi is aground in the Hunter River, a few miles on the Newcastle side of Hexham. Halt-loaded with coal, the Minmi…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Refloated
The steamer Minm[?] which grounded in the Hunter River yesterday. was refloated at high tide last night. The vessel was undamaged, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hit by Grab B.H.P. Laborer Crushed Accident on Steamer
Crushed against the bulkhead of the Iron Warrior by a swinging are-grab, Thomas Shipley, a laborer at the B.H.P. Works, was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wanganui Wreck
The reference in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" on Saturday last, in the excerpts from the news of 50 years ago, to the wreck of the Wanganui at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eleven Dead Canadian Rail Wrecks Floods Cause Wash-outs Toronto (Ontario), June 28
Four were killed and 21 injured when Canadian National Railways train No. 4, bound from Winnipeg to Toronto, was derailed near Capreol (Ontario) on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chinese Poisoned Inhaled Lethal Fumes Tragedy on Steamer Melbourne
Receiving an urgent message at 7.30 o'clock this morning that two Chinese seamen were dying on the steamer Marella, at Victoria Docks, an ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Express Wrecked 16 Killed; 36 Injured Signalman Disappears Bologna (Italy), July 3
Sixteen were killed and 30 injured when the Bologna to Florence express, switched off the main line at Sasso station, collided with a stationary goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Of New South Wales Terrific Explosion Devastates Wide Area in Leeds Eleven Killed Explosion Follows Fire in Chemical Works Scenes of Chaos Houses Wrecked; Many More Casualties Feared LONDON
Eleven persons are dead as the result of a terrific explosion, which followed the outbreak of fire at the chemical works of Hickson's Ltd., at Castleford, near Leeds. So terrific was the force of the explosion that it blew…
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