Gift to Lifeboat Service
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has built two motor lifeboats which are the gift of the late Dr. G. Vernon Blunt, of Birmingham, who died in 1808. Under…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931
281 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 15
Baby's Body Washed Ashore Sydney
With the skull fractured and the body frightfully bruised, the body of a male infant was washed ashore at Bondi yesterday. The body had apparently been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Obstruction on Line Attempt to Wreck Express VIENNA, February 1
An attempt to wreck the Ostend-Vienna express was discovered in the nick of time yesterday. The train, which was carrying hundreds of passengers, was just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Shipwreck
While coasting along the shores of Africa, the Hawk, a small ship of five hundred tons, sailed into a southerly. The ship was being tossed about. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PULVERISATION German Steamer Tests Borehole Coal Loaded
Carrying 700 tons of Borehole cool for experimental purposes, the German steamer Stassfurt, which burns pulverised coal, left Newcastle for Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Ashore West Australian Coast PeRTH
The Shunsei Maru, bound from Fremantle to the East with wheat, went ashore last night near Point C[?]ates, on the North-west coast…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More 'Quakes Another Serious Rise in Sea Bed Veronica Runs Ashore Appalling Scenes Amidst Ruined City Conflicting Information About Death-roll Auckland, Friday Morning
There was another serious earthquake at Napier late last night, as the result of which the Naval Radio station reports, fresh fires have broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →22 Nurses Killed Trapped in Wrecked Home Rescues After Two Days Auckland
Latest news from the stricken areas emphasises the immensity of the disaster. So far as can be gathered, 22 nurses and several patients were killed when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Ashore West Australian Coast No Immediate Danger Perth
The Japanese steamer Shunesi Maru, of 4910 tons, which was hound to Fremantle to load wheat for the Far East, went ashore in the darkness this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hawkes Bay Wrecks
Hawkes Bay (New Zealand), where great loss of life been caused by the eathquake has been the centre of a number of shipwreeks in the days of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reconstruction Begins in Wrecked Cities 'Quake Victims Return to Their Homes Willing Volunteers Auckland (N.z.)
To-day sees a great improvement in all essential services within the earthquake zone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of Enton Crew Reach Sydney Stowaway's Misfortune Sydney
Thirty members of the crew of the motor ship Enton, which was abandoned after she went ashore on Omadu Reef, on the south-west end of New Caledonia,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Survivors of Enton Wreck Ever-alert Fort Searchlights
OFFICERS and crew of the British motorship Enton, which was stranded near Noumea last month, who,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Palm Beach Surf Boat Nearly Met Disaster Surfers by Sea, Land and Air "Were Lucky" Surfers Were Nearly Wrecked at Norah Head Great Adventure Eleven Out of Fifteen Maroubra Surfers Finished the Long Tramp
Pulling slowly through the pitch blackness with just the rugged outline of the cliffs silhouetted against the sky, and the intermittent flash of the lighthouse to guide them, Palm Beach surf boat crew on its way…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wage Dispute Ends in Wrecked Factory Kobe
A prolonged wage dispute in a girder foundry at Osaka culminated this morning when 60 workers stormed the factory and destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Haze at Sea Mail Steamer Delayed FREMANTLE
Bush fires in West Australia were responsible for a delay of five and a half hours in the arrival of the mail steamer Oronsay at Fremantle this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Guinea Gold Hunters in Newcastle Long Voyage in Tiny Ketch Leave To-night
On a tour of adventure to New Guinea, where they hope to find gold, four young men intend to leave Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer's Record Pacific Crossed in Eight Days Victoria (B.c.), February 20
The Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Japan made a new trans-Pacific record, when she reached here to-day eight days three hours and 12 minutes after leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIDE-SHOWMEN Trouble at Inverell Threat to Wreck Show Inverell
This morning 150 indignant side-showmen, with 30 motor vehicles replete with show paraphernalia, paraded the main streets of Inverell prior to leaving for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →30 DROWNED Chinese Steamer Founders Bandits Fire on Rescuers. Shanghai, February 24
Thirty were drowned when the Chinese steamer Fooyuan struck a rock at the Kunlingtan Rapids, in the Yangtze River. It foundered, blocking the narrow…
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