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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 16
The helpless Maheno bring battered by heavy surf ofter grounding on the sands of Fraser Island, Queensland, What appears to be a lake in the background is an expanse of sand. This photograph was taken by a special representative of "The Sun" from the air…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The part played by a holiday party of four men and two boys in the rescue of the eight Japanese, who were on the Maheno when it stranded at Fraser Island, was revealed to-day. A light line, and then a heavier one, were floated to the beach…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →William Buckley, a convict of David Collins's gang, who had escaped from Port Philip in 1803, returned to the settlement that had been formed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fifty plugs of gellgnite, placed by a Fielding farmer, Frank Cowdery, in his kitchen oven to-day, exploded with a terrific blast. injuring…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When fire broke out early this morning in 1400 tons of coal in the hold of the steamer Erica, berthed at Williamstown,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped in impenetrable darkness in the hold of the Union liner Marama, and without food or water for four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In a speech on the Board of Trade Estimates in the House of Commons, the President of the Board (Mr. Walter Runciman) spoke of the problem of the safety…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. H. L. Brook was ininjured, but his machine was completely wrecked when he crashed at Mersa Matruh, 280 miles from Cairo, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One hundred and ten passengers and part of the crew of the excursion steamship Yankee were removed by Coastguards last night when the vessel ran on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Port to-day had an unusual visitor. As she lay at the pilot busy the 165-ton auxiliary schooner Hula[?] with her topsail rigging and while painted sides…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A crowd set fire to and destroyed the Anglican church at Killmallock (Limerick) and smashed the windows of the rectory, which the police are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A "ghost of the past" came back to Newcastle yesterday, for the first time, as far as recollection serves, for nearly 20 years. It was the topsail schooner Huia,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three of these pictures are associated with the visit to castle yesterday of the auxiliary schooner Huia, which came into port to pick up a cargo of explosives, and later in the day left again to continue its voyage to Melbourne. In the top corner is a group of the crew, and on the lower right the officers of the schooner are shown. The picture in the top right hand side shows two of the Moreton Bay Fig trees in Islington Park, fronting the Maitland road; concerning the destruction of a number of these trees, as determined by Wickham Council, vavious protest have been expressed. The trees from a silhouette to the expanse of water backed up at high tide in the recently constructed stormwater channel through the park, with the footbridge leading from the park to Tighe's Hill showing in the background…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That the owners of the cargo steamer Millpool were entitled to insurance about twice the actual value, and fourfold the value at which it was assessed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The steamer Noumea was unsuccessful in her attempt to refloat the stranded Norwegian motorship, Hoegh Trader, last night. The otwing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three men from a boat who come ashore at Newcastle yesterday,spent the night in the cells at Newcastle Police Station. This morning they appeared at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The motor-ship Noumea made an unsuccessful attempt to tow off the Norwegian motor-ship Hoegh Trader yesterday, but the cables broke. The attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The intestate cargo steamer Corrima collided this morning at the Kangaroo Point bend of Brisbane River with a pile driving pontoon in front of Howard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cabled advice was received in Newcastle this morning by the Melbourne Steamship Company that the motor vessel Duntroon, sailed from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some anxiety is felt for the freighter Durour. 800 tons, which is already six days out from Newcastle with a heavy cargo of timber. The ship is without…
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