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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14
A terrific three days' battle with a cyclone, during which the first officer was swept overboard, and five of the crew injured, two of them seriously, was revealed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The first of the sewing machines—made exactly 100 years ago—is now being exhibited in Paris. Its history is interesting. The story of its inventor is pathetic,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Battered by heavy weather, the steamer. Brynmore. en route from Bunbary to the Bluff, put into Newcastle last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The British freight steamer Matakana, which reached port from Liverpool to-day, experienced a rough trip, particularly between the Cape of Good Hope and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British steamer Brookwood, bound from the Tyne to New Caledonia with a cargo of coal, has sent a wireless message, stating that she is on fire in the after…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE British steamer Brookwood has sent out wireless messages for vessels in her neighborhood to prepare to assist if necessary. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caught in the howling westerly gale, which at times reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour, a fleet of Newcastle fishing launches had a hazardous time this morning. The pilot steamer, Birubi, stood by the launches until all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fishing fleet was caught in a heavy gale off East London last night, and three boats were wrecked, 14 coloured seamen being drowned. Rescue tugs had difficulty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Brookwood sent a wireless message that the fire in her coal cargo was serious, but was still being held in check. She is 200 miles south of Port[?] Louis,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The steamer Brookwood has arrived here. No. 3 hold is being flooded, and the fire is believed to be under control. The damage cannot yet be ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Union Steamship Company received a message from the Captain of the Tahiti stating that water was getting in in the after end of the ship. An endeavor is being made to cope with it, but it may be necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disabled in mid-ocean, 450 miles from Raratonga, with a broken propeller shaft, the Union S.S. Company's steamer Tahiti sent out urgent appeals for help on Saturday morning, and asked all vessels in the vicinity to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This drawing was based upon wireless descriptions of the sinking of the Tahiti. Figures in the foreground are the crew of the Ventura. The Penybruys is shown also standing by. The passengers from the sinking liner are seen in the lifeboats approaching the Ventura…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Lambton's Pudding Bradmans have been responsible for so much damage to Lambton-New Lambton Cricket Club's pitches that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Jonathan Dixon, of Merewether, has made available for publication a letter received from his son, Rev. J. W. Dixon, of the Methodist Mission station…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →It has been learned that the following people were aboard the yacht Islander, when it was wrecked last night in Lanlise Bay, Cornwall—Commodore H. D…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Jackle and his [?] had never seen a mirror, and when one came into Mary's possession she jealously hid it in the bush, [?] out occasionally…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Following a country-wide heat wave the Province of Belra was swept by a typhoon. Houses were levelled at Taboa and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With water pouring from her fore-peak tank, the new German freighter, Stassfurt, presented a sorry spectacle following a collision with the trawler, Millimumal, off Blue's Point shortly after 10.30 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The German steamer Stassfurt and the trawler Millimumul figured in a collision on the harbour to-day, and both were damaged. It is a coincidence that during the…
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