Lost with All Hands Schooner Hit by Steamer Crash in Darkness St. Johns (Newfoundland)
When the steamer Silver City, 313 tons, collided with the fishing schooner, Effie Collett, last night, the latter…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 15
Steamer Caught in Mud
The steamer Iron Crown ran aground in the mud on the Stockton side of the river yesterday morning, and the services of two tugs, the Heroine and the St. Giles, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coaster Bonalbo And Gwydir In Collision Near Heads Amazing Mix-up in Fog Ten Ships Held Up Off the Port Coastal Steamer Was Badly Damaged "The Heaviest Fog for Years"
A gaping hole was ripped in the hull of the coastal steamer Bonalbo, following a collision with the Hunter River Steamships Company's vessel Gwydir, in a heavy fog off Nobbys early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chilled Beef Steamer Loading Stopped Exporters Issue Order Brisbane
Because of what producers claim to be the prohibitive rate, exporters of chilled beef have instructed the Queensland Meat Industry Board not to load any crops…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Wrecks and Four Patients Motorist Scores and Gets Away Spokane (Wash.)
Four people are in hospital and three cars are wrecked, but the hitrun driver who caused all the trouble has escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Pirates Foreigners Kidnapped Attack on Steamer Disguised as Passengers (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, June 19
Pirates captured the steamer Shuntien, flagship of the Butterfield Swires fleet, near the mouth of the Yellow River, on Sunday night, when the vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Drowned Launch Rammed by Ferry Steamer Venice
Five persons were drowned in front of St. Mark's Square tonight, when a steam ferry running to the Lido rammed and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Drowned Tourist Liner Wrecked Off Norwegian Coast German Workers' Holiday Cruise (Australian Press Association.) OSLO, June 21
Believed to have struck a submerged wreck off Bokn Island, the German liner, Dresden, carrying nearly 1000 tourists, was beached in a sinking condition…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Washed on Rocks Fishing-boat Wrecked Crew Scrambles Ashore Wellington (N.z.)
Caught in a gale and battered by high seas the Seine fishing-boat Tetoa was washed on the Scoria Rocks, off Whale Island, in the Bay of Plenty, when the anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dresden Survivors Rest After Night of Terror Liner Total Wreck Stavanger (Norway), June 21
After their night of terror, the survivors of the German liner Dresden, which was wrecked off the Norwegian coast last night, rested to-day in schools, barracks…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Meat for England Steamer Mamari Sails Big Frozen Cargo
Carrying the biggest shipment of frozen meat loaded at Newcastle this season, the steamer Mamori cleared the port early yesterday morning for United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lonely Voyage on Ketch Planter-builder Sails for East Sydney
Mr. Henry Straton-Brown left Sydney this morning in his ketch. Mystery, on a voyage to the East. He is making the trip alone to the Malay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mysterious Explosion Pumping Plant at Colliery Machinery Wrecked
The police are making investigations into a mysterious explosion which wrecked the water pumping plant of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alone on Ketch Sydney Man's Long Cruise SYDNEY
Laden with timied goods, sufficient to last for three months, and 80 gallons of water, the ketch Mystery, built in a backyard at Dee Why, left Elizabeth Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sailing Alone to Asia Man on Ketch He Built in Sydney Call at Newcastle
"The only thing not taxed these days is sea-sickness—so I prefer to live in a boat." This, according to Mr. Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pumps Wrecked New Greta Colliery Gelignite Explosion
During an inquiry held at Greta yesterday concerning the conditions operating at New Greta Colliery, which has been sub-leased to a syndicate, the Manager…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ketch Mystery Sailed To-day
The ketch Mystery, built at Rosa Bay by the owner, Mr. H. Duncan-Brown, left Newcastle this morning on the long voyage to Malay States…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Lonely Voyage Ketch Calls at Newcastle Bound for Malay States
Mr. Henry Stratton-Brown, of Sydney, who has set out for the Malay States in a ketch which he built at his home, and is sailing single-handed, reached…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Steamer Sunk Hobart
Formerly one of the best-known ships trading along the Australian coast, the old steamer Leura was sunk yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greek Club Wrecked Man on Strange Mission Showers of Glass Sydney
Greeks and hundreds of spectators witnessed exciting scenes at the Omonia Club, Elizabeth-street, to-day when…
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