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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
242 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 13
Three fishermen had an unenviable experience to-day, when a motor-launch became disabled several miles from the Heads, and drifted for five hours before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James A. Brayshaw, 31, and his son-Roy, aged 10, are believed to have been drowned when a huge wave wrecked their dinghy about a mile and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Gibraltar states that in response to a wireless appeal from the copra-laden steamer Benholm from Suva, which has a fire in the afterhold and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The navy to-day located sections of the dirigible Akron, which crashed a fortnight ago. No trace has been found of the 67 bodies still missing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →So severe was last night's storm that the commander of the C. and D. steamer, Port Darwin, deemed it inadvisable to enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. H. B. Bonney, the Queensland air—woman, and her aeroplane are on board the steamer Jumna, which is bound for Rangoon from Penang and is due to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The discovery by a fisherman of a quantity of driftwood and wreckage on One Mile Beach, near Anna Bay, yesterday, set a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A report that the wreck of a 26ft. launch had been washed ashore on the One Mile Beach, near Anna Bay, was closely investigated by the Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aircraftman Firth was lost, and is presumed to have been killed, and Flying-Officer Grant sustained severe injuries when a Hawker-Horsley bomber from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News has been received in Newcastle of the loss of the auxiliary schooner Aliwa, near the Siassi Group, New Guinea, during a south-east gale towards the end of last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. H. B. Bonney, the Queensland airwoman, whose aeroplane overturned and was damaged when she made a forced landing at Bangbaing, en route to Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The body of Bert Hinkler, who left England in a fog on the morning of January 6, with the intention of making a record flight to Australia, was found to-day with the wreckage of his aeroplane in a desolate part…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scattered over, four or five miles of beach near Anna Bay at the week-end, the police discovered pieces of driftwood and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Baldina, which went aground on Coquette island, was refloated on Sunday night apparently undamaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Falling down the engine-room companionway on the motor-ship Mundalla, Alexander McDonald, of Newcastle, New South Wales, suffered concussion, lacerations on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Addressing goodwill delegates on board to-night, after leaving Sourabaya, the Chief of the Government Statistical Bureau in Batavia (Mr. T. G…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day marks the 35th anniversary of the wrecks of two well-known Newcastle passenger and trading steamers— the Maitland and Merksworth, both…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Farewell, everybody, We are sinking," That was the last wireless message received from the Soviet salvage steamer, Rouslan, which foundered with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After a rough passage from Dunedin, the steamer City of Cambridge arrived here to-day to bunker before sailing for Calcutta tomorrow. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In a statement to-night, the Attorney-General (Mr. H. E. Manning), after predicting an overwhelming vote in favour of the Reform bill, said that it was strange…
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