Japanese Steamer Taken in Tow Broken Tail Shaft Sydney
Fears for the safety of a Japanese steamer, Shin-al Maru, halpless off Woowlark Island, with a broken tall shaft, were allayed to-day when a…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933
242 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 13
Seaplane Sinks Hit Rock When Alighting Crew Swim Ashore Melbourne
While carrying out manoeuvres on Port Phillip Bay, near Frankston, to-day, a seaplane from Point Cook, while alighting on the water, struck a rock, and sank in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Tail Shaft Japanese Steamer Towed SYDNEY
A radio message has been received by the Sydney agents or the Japanese steamer Shin-ai Maru, which was adrift off Woodlark Island with a broken tail shaft,…
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Sir,—In the account of the wreck of the New England on the North Coast in the early eighties, mention was made of the thrilling rescue of five of the survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bomb Thrown At Oil Store Explosion Heard for Miles Deliberate Attempt to Wreck Tanks Sydney Outrage Sydney
In a deliberate attempt, it is believed, to destroy Independent Oil Industries, Ltd., storage depot at Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bones of Victims Discovered in the L'atlantique's Wreckage Dispute Over Salvage London
Latest developments in connection with the fire on the French liner, L'Atlantique, are that the bones…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Repairs to Steamer Caithness in Port
With a cargo of phosphates for southern ports, the steamer Caithness, 5277 tons, left Newcastle last night after having had portion of her engine bedplate renewed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Steamer Excursions
Week-end excursion tickets at reduced rates will be issued by the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company every Friday and Saturday from Newcastle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Fiend's Black Trail Of Desolation Like Battlefield After Bombardment Heartbreaking Scenes in Devastated Areas Homeless Families Survey Tangled Wreckage of Ruined Homes Many Miraculous Escapes From Flames at Fassifern and Toronto
The bushfires which raged in a huge ring around the entire Newcastle district yesterday afternoon and last night have burned themselves out, leaving behind them a trail of devastation and utter ruin unparalleled in the history of the north. This morning there were heartbreaking scenes in the still-smoking towns, and homeless families…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tangled Wreckage at Fassifern
The tangled wreckage of tho home of Mr. Rice, on the hill above Fassifern railway station. The family lout everything in the fire and had to make a desperate race for life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Daring Sailor in Trouble Detained by U.S. Officials Is Too Long Ashore San Pedro (California)
When the "Elaine," 18-foot skiff, in which Fred Revell, who resided in Sydney for many years, sailed from Port Augusta to this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grocery Shop Wrecked by Gelignite Cullen Bullen Outrage Police Make Arrest Portland
The whole of the front portion of a grocor's shop in Mudgee-road, Cullon Bullen, near Portland, was wrecked shortly before 3 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smallpox Patient Steamer Taiping's Case SYDNEY
The steamer Taiping, which is landing at Thursday Island a Chinese steerage passenger suffering from smallpox, advises by radio that limited pratique has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Human Wreckage "Three Cylinder" Lives Preparing the Unfit
Every age adds something of the vivid and pictorial to our mother tongue, and so, as the racy idioms of the hard riding squires of old England and of our own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Overdue May Ride Out Storm SYDNEY
The non-arrival at Sydney of the auxiliary schooner Huia is not causing anxiety. Experienced shipping men hold the belief that she is riding out the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Powdered Fuel German Steamer Trials Maitland Coal Superior
Statements have been made during recant times that the coal from the mines in the Northern district is unsuitable for use as powdered fuel. In the coal and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner's Fight For Port
Schooner Huia, which arrived in Sydney yesterday from Melbourne, after five days' delay through rough seas and head winds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner's Long Voyage Sydney
The schooner Huia, which reached Sydney from Melbourne to-day, after a voyage lasting 10 days, encountered high seas and headwinds and travelled more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Tug Purchased
The Penguin Salvage Company, Limited, yesterday purchased the wrecked tug Repton, which went aground at the entrance to the Bellinger River, for £50…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A.L.P. CONFERENCE Mr. E. J. Hogan's Attack "Wreckers' Effrontery" Melbourne
The former Labour Premier, Mr. E. J. Hogan commenting to-day upon the published reports of the A.L.P. Conference, said that if this gathering of financial and…
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