Saved from Sinking Steamer Was Just in Time Distress Flares Lighted Last Hope Was Gone
Their steam launch broken down and leaking badly, two men were picked up by the steamer Craigend, off Norah…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935
309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 16
Served on Steamer Writ Against Ex-Matron Last-minute Application Sydney
Before Mr. Justice Davidson to-day, John Milligan of Commandant Hill, West Kempsey, applied for a writ of ca sa directed against Matron Townsend, who,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Detained Woman Before Court Judge Ordered Her Discharge Arrest on Steamer Sydney
Arrested on the Monterey yesterday under a writ of ca sa, Mrs. Minnie Townsend. a nurse, informed Mr. Justire Davidson, in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Modern Equipment for New Steamer London
The new Adelaide Steamship Company ship, Manoora, will be equipped with the new Marconi system of echo-sounding. which provides 53…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Is Still Fast. on Mud Bank in Harbor
A sustained effort by two powerful tops at high water to-day failed to dislodge the interstate steamer Coolana, which ran…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Stuck on Mud Bank Cargo Lightened
Hundreds of tons of coal were discharged from the steamer Coolans into lighters this afternoon in an effort to float her off the mud bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ship in Distress Australia Rushes to Aid, Duke on Board, High Seas Menace Schooner, (Australian Press Association.) San Francisco, February 9
According to the latest radio news, the cruiser Australia, on which the Duke of Gloucester is returning to England, is rushing to the aid of the four-masted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Coolana Refloated
Alter four days on the mudbank in Newcastle harbor, the steamer Coolana was pulled off at high water early this morning, after the bulk of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S.O.S. From Radio Schooner Sydney
The Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) stated to-day that the question of the sending out by the American schooner of what could be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tornado at Coogee Garage Roof Was Wrecked Sydney
One of the most remarkable tornadoes known to Sydney startled a small section of Coogee residents to-day when, sweeping…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Heroic Acts Are Recognised Shipwreck Society's Awards Newcastle Cases
Ronald John Phillipson. of Cook's Hill, son of Seraeant Phillipson, the Newcastle Police Prosecutor, has been awarded a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nine Killed When Flying Boat Hits Mountain Lost Way During Fog Blazing Wreckage in the Snow Earl Beatty's Nephew Was a Charred Bodies in Debris Messina
The K3595, a Singapore type of flying boat, which was on its way from Naples to the R.A.F. sea-plane base at Malta, crashed into a hillside in Sicily this morning during a fog…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search for Ulm Has Ended . Schooner Back at Honolulu Sydney
After searching all the islets, rocks and reefs between the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Islet, a distance of 1200 miles, for traces of Mr. Ulm…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Trace Found Schooner's Search for Ulm SYDNEY
Mrs. C. T. P. Ulm received a cablegram to-day from the British Consul at Honolulu stating that the schooner Lunakai had returned after searching all islets,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extra Harbor Service Stockton Ferry Steamer Wattle to Run Again Wharf Repairs
In a letter to Stockton Council last night, the Newcastle Ferries Company stated that tho steamer Wattle, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Old Shipwreck
Sir.âFor several years I have noticed the boxer crank of some wrecked vessel protruding from the sands of Nine Mile Beach, near Belmont. The exact position…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gig Wrecked Buckjumper Breaks Loose Mae West at the Show
Mae West, an equine performer of fiery temper, caused havoc, and what might have proved a serious accident, in the Newcastle Show ring last night. The horse…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Missed the Gold Queensland Disaster of 1875 Gothenburg Wreck
The steamer Gothenburg (500 tons) was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, on February 24, 1875. There were 102 lives lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ashore in Storm Small English Freighter Fishermen Rescue Crew Tokio, February 23
The English freighter, Catherin Radcliffe, 5590 tons went ashore in a storm before dawn at Cape Daito to the south of the mouth of the Tone River. A naval…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →438 Lives Lost Wreck of the Birkenhead British Soldiers' Chivalry
To-day is the anniversary, of the wreck of the British troopship Birkenhead, which struck a sunken reef off Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Cape Colony, on…
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