Detectives on Steamer Sydney
Detectives boarded the steamer Zealandia on arrival from Auckland to-day, and searched for a man who was believed to have a quantity of gold in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 11
Fouled Anchor Cause of Casino Wreck Marine Court's Finding Melbourne
The finding that the wreck of the coastal steamer Casino in Apollo Bay, on July 10, when 10 lives were last, was caused through fouling the anchor, which pierced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Greyhounds for China Newcastle Cargo at Shanghai Steamer May Be Seized Shanghai
There is every possibility of the Sydney-registered steamer, Ball's Head, being confiscated and sold at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck Reef Small Steamer Beached LAUNCESTON
After grazing a reef near the far northwestern tip of Tasmania this morning, the steamer Colliboi, of 310 tons, one of the best known steamers in the Bass…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tramp Steamer Australians on British Articles Acceptance Condemned Sydney
Industrial trouble has occurred on the steamer Tarcoola, which is the first Australian tramp steamer, and which has just returned from her maiden voyage to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →'Plane Wrecked Crashed Into Harbour Flight to Norway Solberg and Petersen Rescued (Australian Press Association.) St. John's (Nfld.) August 24
Messrs. Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen, who left the Floyd Bennett airport, New York, yesterday on a flight to Oslo, Norway, crashed at Darby's Harour,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Launch Sinks Struck by Steamer PERTH
As the steamer Orungal was leaving for the eastern States to-day it was caught I' the wind and tide and swung against the launch Melville, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Body Washed Ashore Geelong
A body, believed to be that of Henry G. Brice, Grand Secretary of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, was found washed ashore at St. Leonard's this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked Steamer Colliboi Total Loss LAUNCESTON
The Marine Underwriters' surveyor (Captain McCaddie) declared to-day that the steamer Colliboi was a total loss, and that the owners, W. Holyman and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tug Ashore SYDNEY
The coastal tug Unique is ashore at Camden Haven, but is in no immediate danger. The mishap occurred in a sheltered position, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Tarcoola Militants' Move Fails SYDNEY
An attempt by the militants to compel the crew of the steamer Tarcoola to leave the vessel was made at a meeting of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →17 DROWNED Japanese Steamer Sunk TOKIO, August 31
A salvage steamer proceeding from Hadodate for the recovery of a grounded steamer, collided at 1.30 o'clock this morning with the steamer Kumie Maru, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. J. A. MOLLISON Urged to Return by Steamer LONDON, August 31
Mrs. Mollison has sent a lengthy message to her husband, urging him to return by liner on account of the weather and his heath…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mollison Gives It Best Accedes to Wife's Entreaty Home by Steamer Halifax (Nova Scotia)
ME. J. A. MOLLISON has confirmed the news, first given out by his wife (formerly Miss Amy Johnson) in London, that he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Safe Thieves in Picture Theatre SYDNEY
When thieves attempted to blow the safe in the Broadway Picture Theatre in George-street, City, late this morning with a charge of gelignite the force of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collided on River Small Steamer and Ketch LAUNCESTON
The steamer Tamban, 411 tons, and the auxiliary ketch, Lady Jean, 38 tons, collided in the vicinity of Lagoon Bay on the Tamer River, yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assisted Disabled Schooner
A disabled Malayan schooner, with a crew of six, was rescued by the Dutch liner Nieuw Zeeland on the voyage to Brisbane on August 20, after it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mystery Woman in Vern Case Disappearance From River Steamer San Francisco
Dorothy Millette, possibly the woman named in the Paul Vern suicide, disappeared on Tuesday night from a river steamer between here…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck Recalled: Dandenong Disaster of 1876
The eastern coast of New South Wales was swept by storms in September, 1876. There were numerous wrecks, with great loss of life. The sinking of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crowded U.S. Ferry Steamer Blown To Bits Appalling Loss of Life Men Catapulted on to Buildings 37 Bodies Found: 50 Missing Boilers Burst Near Wharf Sank in Smoke New York
By the explosion of her boilers this morning the wooden river steamer, Observation, with 160 men,…
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