Steamer Aground West Australian Coast No Immediate Danger Perth
The Japanese steamer Hayo Mara, bound from Geraldton to Bunbury, partly loaded with wheat for overseas, went ashore at a point 15 miles north of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 11
In a Fog Japanese Steamer Aground Tug Standing by for Towing Perth
The Japanese steamer Mayo Maru, which went aground, was going dead slow at the time, in a fog intensified by smoke from the bushfires. Fortunately she…
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The stranded Japanese steamer Mayo Maru was still aground to-day. Three hundred tons of wheat were taken off, and a similar quantity will be taken off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broadmeadow Post Office Ransacked Last Night Theft of Parcels Youthful Amateurs Are Blamed Office ""Wreck"
Thieves broke into the Broadmeadow Post Office last night. ransacked it, futilely meddled with the door of the strongroom, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Refloated Much Wheat Jettisoned BUNBURY
The stranded Japanese wheat steamer, Hayo Maru, floated successfully at noon to-day, assisted by the State steamer Kybra, and the tug Uco, after 2000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Ships Ashore North and South Coasts Nimbin at Ballina Sydney
A remarkable coincidence bearing out the theory that shipwrecks always happen in cycles occurred to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ship on Rocks May be Total Wreck Crew Rescued Northern Firth Holed SYDNEY
Word was received in Sydney to-night that the cargo boat Northern Firth, 1931 tons gross register, had gone ashore this afternoon, on Brush…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nimbin Ashore South of the Richmond Mishap in Fog Attempt to Refloat To-day BALLINA
The motorship Nimbin, of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's fleet, ran ashore in a heavy fog three miles south of the Richmond River bar at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]T-run Driver Causes Wreck Remarkable Escapes Sydney
on a car turned over three times, [?]through a wire fence and rolled [?]a 10 feet grass bank after be[?]uck a glancing blow by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mishap to Manly Steamer Sydney
When the reversing gear on the Manly ferry steamer Curl Curl failed to act early this morning, the steamer crashed through the new shark-proof enclosure beside the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ashore in Gale Ketch Grounds at Port Stephens Salvage Attempts
All attempts to refloat the Sydney ketch, Edris, which was blown ashore at Narrowgut, near Port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disabled Schooner Towed Into Port on Way to New Guinea
The auxiliary schooner Balus, which broke down off Newcastle yesterday on the way to New Guinea, and was towed into port by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Salvage Attempts Wrecked Northern Firth SYDNEY
It having been decided to try to salvage the cargo in the holds of the Northern Firth, which went ashore at Brush Island a week ago, the coastal steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Fire Steamer Time Race to Port Anxious Wait at Sydney SYDNEY, Saturday morning
A report was received from the steamer Time last night that a fire had been discovered in the cargo and that she was returning to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burning Ship's Race to Port Was in Time Fire-fighters' Hard Battle Dramatic Night on Steamer Flames Extinguished by Brigades Stiff Task Sydney
A fifty miles race back to port with her cargo blazing, desperate attempts to locate the seat of the outbreak in the smoke-filled hatch, and a two hours' fight by Sydney fire-fighters before the flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen's Night Battle' Blaze in Steamer Hold
CLOUDS OF CHOKING SMOKE rose from the Time's burning cargo when the hatch was ra[?]d after the vessel had anchored, in Athol Bight. Firemen from George-street North and the fire float Pluvius are ready to attack the seat of the fire. THE CREW OF THE TIME are shown leaning on the hatch coaming watching the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Severe Damage Steamer Time in Port Fire in Hold Subdued Sydney
Damage estimated at several thousands of pounds was caused by a fire in No. 3 hold of the steamer Time, which left Sydney on Friday night for Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Old Wrecks
Sir,—The wreck of the Northern Firth at Brush Island brings back old memories of Brush Island and wrecks. In 1868 I visited the wreck of a barque, the Ranger,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Blown Up Perth
The steamer Eucla, formerly used on the Fremantle-Albany, and Albany-Esperance run, was taken out to sea this morning and blown up and sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Stabbed Attackers Wreck Shop MELBOURNE
Stabbed several times in the abdomen by a stiletto, James Lahiff, 24, of Hartwell, was admitted to hospital in a serious condition to-night. It is believed that…
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