A Shipwreck
My Uncle Tom was the captain of a Yacht called the Clara, and it was a cry beautiful one. The doctor told mother that I…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931
281 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 15
Week of Activity for Free Laborers German Steamer at King's Wharf No Disturbance
The sixth steamer to be worked by non-Federation watersiders, the German vessel, Mosel, discharged 50 tons…
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Believed to have been caught by a sudden gust of wind the cargo steamer, Maranoa grounded on Torrens Island, Port Adelaide River, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sea Gives Up Its Secret After Thirty Years Lost Vessel Located Near 'Frisco £1,000,000 of Bullion Is Aboard Wreck Recalled. San Francisco
After being lost for 30 years, the steamship Rio de Janeiro, which went down off the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fishing Ketch Wrecked Launceston
Wrecked on New Year Island, near King Island, on May 14. the fishing ketch Orazu became a total loss. The crew of three was taken to Melbourne by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Moored at "Farewell Buoy" Sailing Vessel Days Recalled
A steamer moored at the "farewell buoy" in the middle of Newcastle Harbor, attracted attention in the city this morning…
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Suddenly I felt myself being lifted followed by a shower of cold water and I remembered no more. I woke up, to find myself in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →German Ministers in England Conveyed Ashore on Warship Cordial Reception London
The German Chancellor (Dr. Bruning) and Foreign Minister (Dr. Curtius) had a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →First Steamer Sophia Jane at Newcastle Centenary Next
Saturday, June 13, will be the centenary of the arrival of the first steamer, the Sophia Jane, in Port Hunter. About a month previously, during the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Reported Ashore Assistance From Forster Crew of Six Forster
Last night a man named Ivreck, informed Pilot Chamberlain, in charge of the Forster Pilot Station, that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Darwin Crash Pilot Mollison Uninjured 'Plane Totally Wrecked Darwin
A crash at Darwin shortly after mid-night last night ended, for the present at least, the attempt by Pilot J. A. Mollison to establish a new record for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Stranded at Tuncurry Refloating Attempt on Thursday Still High and Dry
High and dry on the beach near Tuncurry, the 40-foot ketch Crescent, is likely to remain aground until the big…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stranded Ketch Is Refloated Ashore at Tuncurry
The ketch. Crescent, which ran ashore at Tuncurry Beach in the darkness, on Sunday night, was refloated at high…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Office Wrecked Mob Violence in Italy Feeling Against Church Rome, June 10
It is disclosed that the offices of the Episcopal Chancery at Priverno were ransacked last week, the doors being battered down and documents thrown into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New E. and A. Steamer
Named after the capital of the Chinese Republic, the new E. and A. steamer Nankin, 7000 tons, which will replace the St. Albans, will leave Yokohama on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →300 Drowned When French Excursion Steamer Capsized in Gale Fierce Riot of Strikers in Roubaix Motor-cars Destroyed in Street Cavalry Charge Roubaix
Saturday's rioting broke out anew, when 300 Communists, whom the police had prevented from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked in Storm in Bay of Biscay 300 Lives Reported to Be Lost Passengers Crowded on One Side It Overturned Paris
A terrible disaster overtook a French excursion steamer, the St. Philbert, a small vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sea Tragedy French Picnic Steamer Most Were Sick Caught Below Deck Like Rats LONDON
A most distressing story is told of the misery preceding the destruction of the ill-fated excursionists on the little steamer St. Philbert. The death roll is now officially estimated at 380…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →300 PERISH Steamer Capsizes Bay of Biscay Vessel Lists as Passengers Rush to Side (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, June 14
The pleasure steamer, St. Philbert, 189 tons, carrying about 300 excursionists, foundered on the Chatellier Reef, near St. Nazaire, in the Bay of Biscay. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Even Worse French Picnic Disaster Death Roll 400 200 Bodies Remain in the Wreck NANTES (France)
A mass funeral, such as might follow a battle, will draw a pall over the St. Philbert disaster—the foundering of that vessel in the bay of Biscay and the drowning of well over 400 of the excursionists…
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