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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
325 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 17
FLOOD DAMAGE—Heavy rain, wre cked bridge and line at the Alice Well Creek crossing, and caused interruption to rail services. A mail train was held up, and passengers had to reach Alice Springs by crossing the flooded Finke River on a fly ing fox…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →So firmly wedged in the wreck-age was a dying man who had been Injured early to-day in a motor smash on the Hume…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was learned to-day the crewless yacht which piled up on rocks 100 yards from the Beaumaris baths on Friday night was owned by a resident of Chelsea, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Twenty-two days out from New Zealand, 18 months (with pauses) out from Seattle (U.S.A.), the 32ft. ketch Idle Hour entered…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Her sails and white hull sparkling in the sunshine, the 32ft. ketch, Idle Hour, arrived in Sydney yesterday an a rounl-the-world voyage. There were not many idle hours on the trip from New Zealand, as the Tasman played all its pranks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skippered by Mr. Dwight Long, a graduate of Seattle University, and manned by a crew of three, two of whom joined at Auckland, the 32ft. ketch Idle Hour…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Memories of the days when Newcastle had only two policemen and there was not one dentist in the town were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Federal S.N, company's steamer Kent (8694 tons) collided with the 1162-ton Amble off Gravesend to-day, damaging the starboard side of her…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The auxiliary ketch Wanderer, which reached Newcastle on Saturday from Sydney, is expected to sail to-day, providing conditions are favourable. The ketch…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At least 30 persons were killed and 60 injured when a carload of dynamite exploded in the village of Tultenage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nine liver were lost in the sinking of the French steamer Boree (1145 tons) of Caen in a fog near the Wash this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nine lives were lost in the sinking of the French steamer Boree, 1145 tons, off Caen, in a fog near The Wash this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two racehorses—Flying Anton, a champion of the north-eastern districts, and Drivel (Windbag—Mananah)—were rescued from car…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three fishermen struggled ashore in an exhausted condition at Woolgoolga at daylight on Saturday morning. Two were clinging to the broken mast of their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Several hundred German residents of Australia and about 70 children were to- day taken by the German steamer Stassfurt outside the three-mile limit so that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Percival Willis 42, of Brunswick-street, North Fitzroy, Melbourne; was lost overboard when he fell while lashing a lifeboat to its davit on the S.S. Yarra in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three pairs of women's shoes and a quantity of Jelly crystals were pillaged from the No. 2 hold of the steamer Macumba while it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of the 191 Germans who took part in the German elections yesterday, on board the steamer Stassfurt, outside the Heads, only one cast his vote against Herr Hitler…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In dense fog the Port Jackson Coy's, ferry Curl Curl, bound for Manly with 50 passengers on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After adventures and a shipwreck in a small ketch Hector Packman and Fred Scott, two young men wild claim that they are Australians,…
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