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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 16
Fire broke out following the explosion on a harbour craft last night, and three men were burned. The boat drifted about the harbour, after the engine had broken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forty-four members of the crew of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Hurundi refused to take the vessel to sea. Later they left the ship and spent the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although there have been several vessels—ships and steamships—connected with the Australian mercantile marine, which have achieved notoriety, none has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Surrounded on all sides by wrecked hopes and exploded theories, President Roosevelt and his advisers worked frantically…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Six natives were killed and 10 were wounded in a riot at a copper mine in northern Rhodesia to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Capetown, May 2[?].—The Ville de Paris has been wrecked north of Port Dauphin (Madagascar). All the passengers and crew were saved. It is understood that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A three-seater aeroplane was wrecked at Rosewood this afternoon, though the four occupants escaped injury, when the pilot was obliged to make a landing on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It a bellowed that Queensland in the only State in Australia to have a flying policeman, who uses a machine on police work. He is Constable T. Appleby, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two steamers which broke away from the wharf at Greymouth to-day now he stranded on the opposite side of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The man who died last night on the steamer Gwydir, as it was passing Miller's Point, has been identified as John Peterson, 65, of Council-street, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steaner Ophir is ready to leave Glassgow to search Kinsale Head for the wreek of the Lusitania. She is equipped with diving apparatus able to resist the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two attempts were made to-day to refloat the Omana, which is stranded in the Grey River, but both were unsuccessful. Efforts will be renewed to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first steamer to arrive in Australian waters, the Sophia Jane, arrived in Newcastle Harbour for the first time on June 13, 1831. She left…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DRAMA of the sea worthy of the pages of Conrad, was told at the inquiry in London into the loss of the British steamer Usworth in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A new link between shipping and air lines between Australia and England has been forged, and passengers by either…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The breaking of a piston and the subsequent shattering of the large cylinders caused a general smash in one of the municipal council's engines used for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →After a nightmare voyage from Uiladulla, winding up with an allnight battle to get into Narooma, "The Pup." the 16ft. motorboat in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Caught in heavy seas which raged along the coast yesterday, the 16ft. motor-boat, "The Pup," in which Gordon Doherty set out from Sydney last week on a 4000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Lascar members of the crew of the Peshawur were fatally injured to-day when they fell from a staging while scraping paint near the captain's cabin and struck…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Powerless to assist, watchers at the Hargraves home, on the hill overlooking Wybung Head,…
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