Steamer in Distress Wellington (N.z.)
The steamer Solafrie, bound for Callao, has wirelessed that she has broken down and is drifting 1050 miles from Suva. The steamer Trentbank reports that she is…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 15
Cards and Shipwrecks
Dale Collins is an Australian who has very definitely carved out a niche of his own in the structure of contemporary fiction. It is most popular niche, too,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Propeller Damaged Steamer Strikes Obstruction SYDNEY
The Navigation Department received a message to-day, intimating that, when about 10 miles south-east of Macquarie Light to-day, the steamer Corio struck…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Air Torpedoes, Directed by Radio, to Wreck Towns a Plea to the U.S. to Join League a Voice From Haiti Geneva
The Haitian Delegate (M. Mayard), speaking in the League Assembly this afternoon, urged the United States to enter the League…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Steamer in Port
The Japanese steamer Hayo Maru arrived at Newcastle this afternoon direct from Vancouver, with a timber cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manchukuo Outrage Guards Loot Steamer Reign of Terror Eight Passengers Killed (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, September 20
The news of another shocking outrage in so-called Manchukuo has just reached here, this time involving the piracy and looting of a passenger vessel, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Disabled Collier Milora Ashore Near Queenscliff Last Night With Cargo From Newcastle Bumped Heavily on Rocks All Night Crew on Board: with Tugs Standing by Refloating Attempt To-day Melbourne
Although they moved her slightly, three tugs at full tide to-day were unable to refloat the A.U.S.N. Company's coal steamer. Milora. which is in a perilous position on the Rondella Reef, half a mile from shore,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overtime Dispute Steamer Canberra Held Up SYDNEY
Following a dispute about the payment of overtime, the firemen on the interstate steamer Canberra withdrew from the vessel this afternoon, and the vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greek Steamer in Port
The Greek steamer Ekatontarchos Draceulis arrived in port this afternoon from Sydney to load about 730 tons of bunkers. It was her first visit to this port…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →New Ferry Steamer Christened and Launched
The new ferry steamer for the North Stockton service was launched yesterday morning after the christening ceremony had been performed by Miss Phyllis Austin. The first picture shows the splash of the champagne on the vessel, and the second view was taken as the Darra skipped into the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Canberra Settlement of Dispute SYDNEY
A settlement was reached to-day in the dispute on the interstate steamer Canberra, and it was intimated that she would sail for Queensland ports this evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Barque Adolphe Disaster of 1904 Recalled Wreckage on Oyster Bank
A picture on this page shows the wreckage, as it stands to-day, of the four masted French barque Adolphe (3250 tons gross). On September 30, 1904, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Grounded Struck Submerged Object Lifeboats Save Passengers Boston (Mass.), October 1
The passengers and crew of the 100-ton coastal steamer New Bedford were forced to take, to the lifeboats to-night after the ship struck a submerged object, tearing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HURRICANE Damage in New Zealand Houses Wrecked Liner Maunganui Delayed Wellington (N.z.)
A gale of great intensity struck the southern part of North Island last night and caused extensive damage in Masterton, Carterton and Featherston areas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crashed Into Tree Miss Thompson Uninjured Aeroplane Wrecked Athens, October 1
Miss Freda Thompson, of Melbourne who left England on Saturday in an attempt to fly to Australia, crashed into a tree at Megara, 20 miles from Athens,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Aground Wellington (N.z.)
The steamer Gabriella bound for Sydney with about 800,000 super feet of timber stranded near the Grey River wharf to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lifeboat Drill American Merchant Vessels WASHINGTON, October 2
The United States Department of Commerce has announced that senior naval officers will be assigned to all American merchant vessels, to ensure proper fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Refloated Wellington (N.z.)
Following two unsuccessful attempts, the Union Steamship Company's vessel Gabriella, which ran aground in Grey River, was freed to-night, after 70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cargo Steamer Founders In Gale In Atlantic The Crew of 26 Perishes Rescue Ships Found No Trace of Her Raging Seas Caused Serious Delay Another Vessel Helpless New York
The British cargo steamer Millpool, (4218 tons), foundered last night during a heavy gale, 700 miles east of Newfoundland. She had a crew of 26…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charred Bodies In Wreckage Of Qantas Mail 'Plane Three Fliers Perished In Flames Search 'Planes Landed, But the Pilots Awaited Coroner Bodies of Victims Are Being Taken Overland to Winton Mail 'Plane Is Mass of Blackened Ruin
With the charred remains of its three occupants in its fire-blackened wreckage, the missing Qantas mail 'plane, Atalanta, was found early to-day, sixteen miles south of Winton. The bodies are being brought back to Winton by the Coroner and a police…
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