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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
242 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 13
Hearing the bell in his cabin, indicating in S.O.S. call, J. Satcelll wireless operator of the Bank Line's steamer Deebank, homeward bound from New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An aeroplane fitted with wings based on studies of the flight of birds was wrecked in Gloucestershire, Captain Saint, the well-known test pilot, narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aircraft Inspector Thomas Johnson, for all his technical knowledge, could not prevent a 'plane he took up at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thomas Johnson, 42, an aircraft inspector, attached to the Civil Aviation Department at Mascot, narrowly escaped serious injury when a Moth aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When aeroplane got out of control and fell about 50ft. into Cook's River late this afternoon, Sidney Grahame, 26, of Helen-street, Artarmon, was fortunate to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With their transcontinental mail 'planes slowly sinking under the weight of snow and ice, the pilots at last leaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co. Ltd. draw attention to an alteration in timetable during the holidays. There will not be a steamer leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co., Ltd., announces an alteration in timetable during the holidays. There will not be a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Wednesday. When a British trawler ran aground, six Germans launched a life, boat, but it capsized…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The vessel seen to sink off Aldeburgh (Suffolk) during yesterday's gale was to-day identified by wreckage as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proceeding to the Dyke cranes, to bunker early this morning, the 3351 tons steamer Dumosa ran aground…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three seamen were drowned and 10 were rescued early to-day, when the Boston fishing schooner, Ellen T. Marshall was burned to the water's edge and sank…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A cyclone caused molly deaths and heavy damage on the Madras coast at the week-end. The Greek steamer Nereus arrived at Madras with her funnel bent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The American steamship Topatopa, of 5356 tons, carrying cotton and timber from Florida to London, arrived in the Thames to-day with a fire aboard, which had raged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While passing over a bridge at Darling-street, Glebe, to-night, an engine had a narrow escape from being derailed. A concrete slab had been placed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The coastal steamer, Cobargo, was delayed nearly two hours this afternoon, through an accident which occurred when about two miles out from Sydney heads…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Discovered in an unconscious condition alongside his wrecked bicycle by a passing motorist. William Hughes, 22, of the Bomborah Point unemployment camp,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliding with the Hull trawler, Kurd, in a thick fog off Spurn Head, Yorkshire at midnight, the Swedish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trapped in the wrecked cabin of his father's auxiliary ketch, Tooraloo, which overturned on the treacherous bar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pressing effortlessly at half speed through extensive ice fields, the Jacob Ruppert was, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, approximately 136 miles south of Captain…
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