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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
242 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 13
Fritz Krenzer, who dived overboard from the Mariposa at Auckland, in an attempt to evade deportation to Australia, made another senational attempt to secure…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Temporary repairs having been effected, the steamer Golden Harvest, which went ashore near the Heads on May 30, left dock to-day. She will leave for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After triumphing over the Atlantic, Mr. and Mrs. Mollison were injured in a crash, when they made a forced landing at Bridgecourt, Connecticut, 58 miles from their goal, at 9 p.m. (midday, Sydney)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In recognition of their bravery in rescuing James Wilson, of Stockton, from drowning in the boiling seas off Nobbys Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy rain has fallen to-day all over the Richmond River Valley, falls averaging from two to three inches. Flood warnings have been received from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The captain of the excursion steamer which sank on July 14 has been sentenced to death by shooting for having permitted overcrowding, as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A practical demonstration of the urgent need for dredging the Lake Macquarie channel at Pelican Flat, off Marks Point, was given on Thursday night, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Exceptionally heavy weather was experienced by the interstate cargo steamer Mildura, which reached Melbourne from Sydney today. Members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Once the pride of Huddart, Parker, Limited, the steamer Anglian was thrown out of commission many years ago, and after all the fittings had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney members of the British Medical Association who will attend the association's Australasian conference in Hobart in January next have arranged to charter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The wreck of the E. and A. Company's steamer Catterthun (Captain N. Shannon) in 1895, which is referred to elsewhere, had many pathetic incidents…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the annals of shipping disasters on the New South Wales coast, there appear records of events which fill a more prominent place in the memory of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A cable message received to-day by the Sydney Marine Underwriters' Association, advises that the German steamer Mosel,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Declaring that 1500 gallons of alcohol had risen to the surface above the British steamer Achill, which was sunk in the Gulf of Bothnia on June 8, the authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Running into the teeth of fierce westerly and north-westerly gales in Bass Strait, the four-masted auxiliary schooner Kermandie, 222 tons, was forced to shelter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With a crash which was heard a quarter of a mile away, the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Allara rammed a 64-ton ketch, Lady Doris sinking it in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Because they are "useless and involve wasteful expenditure and overburden the telegraph system" the Soviet provincial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A wireless message from the Dutch steamer Hercules tolls a thrilling story of the rescue of 46 men, who comprised the crew and passengers on the four-masted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With approximately 3000 tons of scrap iron in her holds, the Japanese steamer Yaye Maru berthed at Newcastle yesterday, to take in 1500 tons of similar cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A quantity of English silver coin, believed to have been smuggled aboard before the ship left Wellington, New Zealand, was discovered in the forepeak of…
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