Iron Baron Interest in New Steamer to Be Docked To-day
The Iron Baron, the first of the new fleet of steamers being built by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., was a centre of great interest on the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936
325 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 17
Foreign Relations Signor Mussolini Explains Policy Shipwreck of the League Will Resist Any Attempt to Suffocate Italian Life in Mediterranean (Australian Associated Press.) MILAN, November 2
A contemptuous reference to the League of Nations, an expression of reserve towards France, and of cordiality towards Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and a reassurance of Italy's peaceful intentions in the Mediterranean,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Brynymor New Welsh Steamer Here Cargo of Sulphur
The new Welsh steamer Brynymor, of 4771 tons, arrived in Newcastle early yesterday morning on her maiden voyage to Australia. The vessel proceeded direct…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Like Bodies Floats from Trawling Net Ashore on North Coast Grafton
Police are of opinion that the object which Mr. D. Smith and his son saw floating at Moonee Beach, and which they took for two bodies, was a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sheds Wrecked Explosions in Fireworks Factory Woman Stood on Rocket Wellington (N.z.)
Seven of 12 sheds comprising Blokerton's Flames Fireworks Factory at Christchurch, were blown to pieces or burnt to the ground this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreckage After Hurricane Afternoon on the Beach
Mass of smashed timber which remained as grim evidence of the destructive violence of hurricane and swirling waves at Seabright, New Jersey, U.S.A. recently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broke Her Propeller Steamer's Mishap Off Coast Sydney
The steamer levington Court had her propeller badly damaged when she collided with a whale off the coast between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Craft in Distress Lifeboat to Rescue MELBOURNE
Late this afternoon the Queenscliff lifeboat made a hurried trip through the Hands to help a hurried boat in distress off Point Danger, near Torquay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FOUNDERED German Motor-ship Isis Only One of Crew Saved London, November 9
The German motor-ship Isis, foundered and the only member of its crew of 40 who was rescued was a cabin-boy named Roethke, aged 17…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Welcome to Caradale Replaces Steamer Craigend
The first visit to New castle of the James Patrick Co's. steamer Caradale. was marked by an informal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Steamer Aground Near Point Cook
The British Phosphate Commissioners' 5000-ton steamer Deebank, shown after she had run aground about half a mile from the shore, a mile and a half south of Point Cook on her way from Geelong to Melbourne. The vessel is expected in Newcastle shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Explosion Valuable Machine Wrecked SYDNEY
An explosion, the cause of which is unknown, occurred at the weaving mill of Bradford Cotton Mills Ltd, at Newtown to-day, wrecked a machine valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage on Beach Sydney
Further evidence of a sea mystery was reported to the Metropolitan Superintendent of Police (Mr. Pattinson) to-day by a man who found on Garie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sinking Ship Sole Survivor's Story in Water for Hours Scrambled Into Lifeboat (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, November 10
Fritz Roethke, the 17-year-old sole survivor of the foundered German motor-ship Isis, jammed himself in, the bottom of a waterlogged lifeboat for 12 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Court Thursday, November 12 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fires on Steamer
Evidence regarding two outbreaks of fire on the British steamer Hardingham en route from Vancouver to Newcastle, on October 16 and 18, was given in the cases…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Severe Storm Seven Craft Blown Ashore Confusion on Lake Three Men Almost Drowned
Seven sailing craft were washed ashore, two others capsized, and three men went close to losing their lives when a storm of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Powder Works Blown Up Disaster in South of France Mangled Bodies in the Wreckage Paris
One of the most disastrous explosions of recent years occurred to-day when the French Government's powder works at Saint Chamas, 25 miles north-west of Marseilles, was blown up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Set Fire to Steamer Mental Condition of Steward Sydney
"I was worried and sick and half crazy at the time," said Charles Henry Russel, 31, a steward, in pleading guilty at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckage Found Lost Fishing Launch No Hope for Two Men Melbourne
Wreckage found on the coast at Kilcunda to-day appears to solve the fate of the fishing launch which disappeared yesterday in stormy seas off Westernport…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Blackheath New Steamer Arrives Ironstone for Steel Works
The new 4036-ton overseas steamer Blackheath, which is on her maiden voyage in Australian waters, arrived at Newcastle yesterday afternoon from…
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