Disabled Launch Surf Lifeboat Rescue SYDNEY
Newport Surf Club lifeboat rescued a disabled launch off Newport Beach on Saturday, and towed it seven miles to the steamer Gosford, where it was taken in…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 15
Steamer Excursion
The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company directs attention to' holiday return tickets to be issued at reduced week-end rates on Thursday next as well…
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Excitement was caused on Merewether Bench late yesterday afternoon by the appearance of an object which was taken to be a ship's boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cholera Epidemic Earthquake Aftermath Bodies Under Wreckage Calcutta, January 24
An army of rescuers working till drawn, throughout the night with the aid of flares, are faced with the greatest peril of the earthquake aftermath. It in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DISARMAMENT "Conference Practically Wrecked" Polish Minister's View Against Further Arms Cuts (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, January 25
The Polish Finance Minister, presenting the Budget, in which the War Ministry estimates were 35 per cent. of the total, said—"The Disarmament…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Riots in China Fleet of 'Buses Wrecked Rickshamen on Strike Shanghai, January 29
Modern transportation and the introduction of a motor-truck service at ChinKiang, the Yang-tze-Kiang port, was responsible for serious rioting of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mob Wreck Towns Buildings Razed, Looted and Burned Kalgoorlie and Boulder Driving Foreigners from W.A. Mines PERTH
Three hotels, 13 shops, leased or owned by foreigners, a new building, a wine saloon, and a two-storey house, were wrecked, looted and burned by uncontrollable mobs at Kalgoorlie and Boulder last night. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Severe Explosion Queensland Mystery Bakehouse Wrecked Brisbane
A terrific explosion at Burleigh, near Southport, early this morning, wrecked a bakehouse which Mr. E. Marsh had recently taken over to start a branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Washed Ashore From Yacht Storm in Victoria Melbourne
Buffeted by stormy waves, William R- Henley, 25, of Carlton, supported by a life-belt, had a terrifying experience when he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Money Stolen From Steamer Police Investigations
Newcastle police are investigating a report that £21 in notes was stolen from the drawer in the cabin of the third officer of the Steamer Koonda…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pilot Steamer for Surf Carnival Newcastle Club's Enterprise Novel Protection for Swimmers March Past Event
Officials controlling the surf carnival on Newcastle beach on Saturday were informed yesterday that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taxi-cab Strike Volunteer Drivers Stoned Many Vehicles Wrecked New York, February 4
The taxi-cab strike was marked by violence to-day, when independent drivers were beaten and stoned, passengers dragged from cabs, tyres slashed, ignition…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Turmoil in Paris (Continued from Page 1.) Blind Panic in Streets Rioting in Other Parts of France May Wreck Ministry London
Last night's events may be the death knell of the existing order, and M. Daladier's unhappy trial of the strong hand may destroy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blue Funnel Steamer in Port
One hundred and fifty tons of general cargo, including a large quantity of electric light bulbs, was unloaded by the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mission Ketch Limps Into Newcastle Amazing Feat of Navigation Oars Were Used As a Rudder
One of the most amazing feats of navigation in the history of Newcastle's shipping came to an end this…
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The mission ketch, Patterson, which arrived at Newcastle yesterday afternoon, after a voyage of 600 miles without a rudder, left for Sydney at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eventful Voyage Rudder Disabled Ketch Seeks Shelter
Steering with light oars in place of the rudder, which carried away last Wednesday, off the Middleton Reef. 600 miles from the Australian coast, the auxiliary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Ferry Steamer for North Stockton
Under construction at the slipway of Messrs. Beattie and Davis, at North Stockton, is a new ferry steamer being built to the order of Newcastle Ferries Company for use on the Newcastle-North Stockton run…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Sinks Collision in Channel Survivors Picked Up London, February 13
"It must have sunk like a stone," read a radio message from the British steamer Dartford, after it had collided in a fog in the English Channel with the Greek…
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SCENE WHEN THE LURLINE BERTHED in Sydney yesterday.--Tourists lost no time in coming ashore…
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