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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
Battered after a titanic battle with a cyclone which blew for days on end, the steamer Largo Law arrived in Newcastle, her first Australian port, to-day from Tahiti for repairs. With several of her plates bent and parts of the crew's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, July 19.—A Swede named Anders Hakans, who, after two years in the bush in Victoria, developed religious melancholia, hanged himself in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Looking little the worse for her buffeting by severe storms on the voyage from Tahiti to the Australian coast, the British steamer, Lawdon Law, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rangitate to-day effected the rescue of the passengers and crew of the North German-Lloyd vessel Targis, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The yacht Snark has been wrecked on the Island of Api, New Hebrides. This was the yacht made famous by the writer. Lack London in his "Voyage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chinese pirates, travelling in the guise of passengers on board the steamer Helikon, of 2000 tons, overpowered the Chinese officers, who were temporarily in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new record in long-distance radio telephony was established when the occupants of an aeroplane in South America conversed with a passenger on the liner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A private cable message received to-day by the General Secretary of the Methodist Society of Australasia (Rev. J. W. Burton) stated that the mission schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lady Ednam and Mrs. Loeffler, victims of the air taxi disaster, had £40,000 worth of jewels with them in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Deputy-Director of navigation (Captain Matheson) received information this morning from the radio station at Cooktown, Queensland, that signals had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Blue Funnel steamer, Meriones, in continuation of her voyage from Glasgow and Liverpool, is due in Newcastle on Thursday. It is three years since this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since an urgent S.O.S. was picked up by Amalgamated Wireless station at La Perouse yesterday morning stating that the Dutch freight steamer Sumatra was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some delay has taken place in commencing the construction of the new light house steamer at Cockatoo Dockyard, due, it is understood to certain suggested…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The steamer Nerbudda, which sent out a wireless message stating that she was sinking 100 miles east of Gibraltar, after a collision with a Spanish steamer, is still…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The captain of the Dutch steamer Nieuw Holland, which is travelling between Brisbane and, Sydney, reported by wireless to-day that a woman passenger had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The ill-fortune that has dogged the steamer Largo Law since it left Amsterdam nine months ago still continue. When the vessel was being removed from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Nerbudda, owned by the British Indian Steam Navigation Company, which collided with a Spanish vessel, and was beached at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An American, Hyram O. Burbank, Junior, has just arrived to enjoy a holiday, which his father booked 36 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The French steamer, St. Joseph, which was due at Newcastle from Noumea on Sunday, arrived yesterday afternoon after protracted voyage. The steamer was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The American steamer Chicksaw collided with the Swedish steamer Femern, cutting her clean in halves. The forepart sank, taking down four of the crew,…
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