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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
325 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 17
The reported firing of rockets off the shore from Porangaban on the east coast of the North Island on Monday night and the subsequent discovery of patches of oil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Reports from Porangahau state that three hardwood hatch-covers, nine feet long, with iron grips, were washed ashore with a number of planks 14…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Horn and Herbert Morris, both of Double Bay, narrowly escaped being burned alive when the well-known 'plane, Red Rose,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Something in the nature of a shipping mystery has followed the report of the captain of the Kartigi that, when off Porangahou, on the East Coast of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Kent narrowly escaped disaster near Suva on Thursday, when the engines stopped and a strong wind drifted her towards a reef in Kandavu…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Until such time as wreckage, other than hatch covers, is found, Sydney shipping men believe that there in no cause…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Further wreckage has been found, on the East Coast. Late this afternoon a young Maori reported to the Postmaster at Porangahau…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Cambridge undergraduates are answering an appeal posted in one college to help unload the useless 3000 tons of wheat cargo from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lloyd's agent at Inagua (Bahamas) telegraphs that a native fishing vessel reports that a small British vessel has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The mystery whether the British vessel reported to have been found wrecked on the Bahamas is the pirate trawler Girl Pat is still unsolved. Lloyd's London…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A message from Nassau (Bahamas) confirms the report of the finding of the wreck of a vessel, believed to be the Girl Pat. which had been officially…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The British trawler, Girl Pat, which left Grimsby on April 2, on a fishing cruise in the North Sea, only to wander throughout African, South American, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A dispute between the crew and the owners of the steamer, Kartigi to-day resulted in the crew being paid off and the vessel being placed out of commission…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After making a number of attempts the liner Nestor this morning succeeded in taking the interstate steamer Mungana in tow and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The cyclone which poured torrential rain on Sydney last night and has now passed to the south-east comer of the State, expended the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable damage was caused by the cyclone in Sydney last night. Many yachts in the harbour were torn from their moorings and crashed into other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The plight of the 5000-ton motorship Stanford, which ran aground on the African Reef, a few miles south of Geraldton, last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Confirmation of the fear that the Norwegian motorship Stanford is a total loss as a result of grounding on African…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The Ministry has carried out a vast tariff experiment at the expense of the wool and wheat industries, without consulting either the Tariff Board or the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An unusual visitor to Newcastle today was the Yugoslav steamer Sokol. The Sokol has Susak as its port of registry…
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