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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 15
The single-engined Fokker monoplane, Blue Blade, one of four of Rear-Admiral Byrd's expedition, crashed at 12.30 p.m. to-day. 500 yards south of Little America…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The heavy seas last night pounded the trawler David Blake, which ran on the Mimosa Rock near Tathra about midnight on Thursday, and this morning she is hard aground on Mimosa Beach with her A PEARLING and beche-de-mer lugger, identical with those lost in the cyclone on the coast of North Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HER DECKS PILED HIGH WITH OREGON, SPRUCE AND FIR, from the Canadian forests, the ste amer Nordpol arrived in Newcastle on Sat urday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Poonbar, 900 tons, ran ashore in the Burnett River on Friday night. It is now edged in between the bank and a stone retaining wall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fears were entertained on Saturday that the trawler David Blake, which went aground on Mimosa Rock, South Coast, on Thursday night, would become a total…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Efforts to refloat the Poonbar, which went aground in the Burnett River at Bundaberg on Friday night, have been unsuccessful. At low tide the vessel stands…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Almost dead from hunger, cold and thirst, Catherine Carr,18, was found aboard a lifeboat when the steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The six-masted schooner, Helen B. Sterling, was set on fire this morning in Kerosene Bay, having outlived her usefulness. The masts had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A degree enjoining the people of Russia to make a supreme effort to establish order on the railways has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the aid of anchors cast in the stream, the stranded steamer Poonbar was moved 150 yards at high tide this morning. When the tide rose to-night a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Australian Postmaster-General (Mr. R. A. Parkhill), in an interview with the Postmaster-General of Britain (Sir Kingsley Wood), raised the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir Charles Kingsford Smith completed, triumphantly, his sixth Tasman crossing to -day. He flew over the City at 3.10 p. m., after a very fast trip, and landed at Mascot at 3.15 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Georg Myrhe, a seaman, was awarded £72 damages from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. to-day by the Full Court, in his claim for wages due while he was ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday an aerial search was made up the coast to the north of Mary borough for the Brisbane fishing launch, Evelyn, but without success…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Kinchela, which grounded on a sandspit outside the bar at Port Macquarie yesterday, is not in danger, According to the agents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report from Lautoka states that the steamer Waihemo is ashore near Momo[?]. The steamer ! left Lautoka bound for Suva at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another fatal air crash occurred to-day when a D.H. Gipsy Moth crashed into soft ground at North Brighton-le-sands and was wrecked. The victims…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was learned late to-night that the condition of Jason Hazzard, the young Sydney pilot of the Moth aeroplane which crashed at Evans Head on Sunday, fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In an attempt to refloat the steamer Waihemo, which went aground at Mombi, Lautoka, the bunker coal is being jettisoned in order to lighten the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Navigation Department has been advised that the coastal steamer Jap, of 242 tons gross and owned by Coastal Steamships Ltd., is aground at Cape…
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