Pilot Steamer's Crew Awaits Orders
Members of the crew of the Newcastle pilot steamer, Birubi, gathered on the deck of the vessel, ready for orders at any hour…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935
309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
Wreckage Found Bass Strait Air Liner Worst Fears Confirmed Melbourne
Large quantities of wreckage from the Holyman air liner, Loina, which disappeared yesterday while on a flight from Melbourne to Launceston, were found…
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A terrific storm which raged over Bass Strait with its centre near Flinders Island last night and this morning is likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Liner Wreckage Storm May Hamper Salvaging MELBOURNE
The salvaging of the major portion of the wreck of the Holyman air liner, Loina, is likely to be hampered by the severe storm raging over Bass Strait…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wrecked in Uganda Imperial Airways Liner LONDON, October 7
The Imperial Airways liner Hanno, flying between Cairo and the Cape, burst a tyre while landing at Entebbe (Uganda Protectorate) to-day, and the machine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Factory Wrecked Explosion Kills Workers Many Seriously Injured Chicago, October 7
Between seven and 13 people were killed in an explosion and fire that wrecked the Gliden Soya Products factory to-day. At least 60 were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destroyer Is to Search Wreckage of Lost Air Liner Melbourne
To make a thorough search for the main wreckage of the ill-fated Tasmanian air liner Loina, which is believed to be lying in 50 feet of water off…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Navy to Search Wreck of Air Liner Loina Destroyer and Mine-sweeper Canberra
An intensive search is to" be made for the missing air liner Loina. stated the Minister for Defence (Mr. R. A. Parkhill) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wreckage Found Part of Missing Launch Wellington (N.z.)
A piece of a floorboard found near Wellington to-day has been identified as part of the missing launch, in which two men and a boy left Porirua Harbour on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Brussels Crash British Air Liner Wrecked BRUSSELS, October 10
Strong, squally winds caused the Imperial Airways liner Scylla to overturn while landing at Brussels. The machine was destroyed, but…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fell Down Steps on Steamer Building Contractor Injured
Believed to have had his skull fractured, George Bennett, aged 29, a building contractor of the Bulahdelah Hotel. Bulahdelah, was token from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eleven lives Lost In Wreck
ELEVEN MEN, all hand, of the trawler Skegness, were drouned near Bridlington, when their ship was wrecked under the 420 feet high Speeton Cliffs. Three lifeboats and a rocket life-saving brigade stood by helpless, while the trawler was dashed to pieces…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Greaser Killed Fell Into Crankshaft Well on Steamer Orara Sydney
Ernest Ryder, 57, a greaser, of Glebe (Sydney), met a shocking death late to-night when he fell into the engine crankshaft well of the North Coast Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Courts Illegally on Steamer
For having gone on board the steamer Waikouaiti without the permission of the master, James Francis Kean, 24, laborer, was fined £1 at Newcastle…
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Remarking that the accused had been warned, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £1, in default two days' imprisonment, on James Fraucis Keen, 24, labourer…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Thirty-six Wrecks in Hurricane
It was established that six schooners and 30 small craft were lost in the hurricane which swept the Newfoundland coasts recently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crew in Boats Vardulia Abandoned Near Hebrides Winter Storms Raging Scotland Battered: Many Vessels Ashore (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, October 20
In a 100-mile-an-hour hurricane, which battered the whole of Scotland, the 5735-ton steamer Vardulia, of Glasgow, bound to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Wrecked in Japan Sea Crew Rescued by Fishing Craft Sydney
The fate of the old Australian steamer Kurow—renamed Mabel Moller—which remained a mystery following a radio distress call picked up in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Cardross Cargo Steamer Christened
Representatives of shipping, business, commercial and stevedoring interests in Newcastle assembled on the deck of the steamer Cardross, at Lee Wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked in Landing Imperial Airways Liner Passengers Uninjured London, October 22
An Imperial Airways air liner carrying three passengers had a minor crash near Zwetti, Austria, while flying from Vienna to London, states the Vienna…
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