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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 19
The Spanish Embassy in Paris announces that the Commander of the German cruiser, Koenigsberg, "in the name of the German Government," has sent an ultimatum to the Basque Government at Bilbao…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the height of the storm last night a launch on Lake Macquarie was driven ashore by the choppy waves and strong wind, and two men on board had narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. G. Chidgey, General Manager of the New South Wales Fresh Food and Tee Co. Ltd., collapsed and died on board the liner Awatea to-night. He had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The German cruiser Koenigsberg to-day seized the Spanish ore-carrying steamer Soton (1376 tons) and made prisoners of the crew. The Soton was in Spanish territorial waters when the Koenigsberg fired…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soviet steamer on its way to Ghent, with pig-iron, was detained by Spanish Insurgents near Gibraltar, but was later released…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A number, of tents were blown down on camping reserves at Southport yesterday afternoon, when a hailstorm, accompanied by a cyclonic wind, swept the town and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A leakage of carbon bi-sulphide, which is used for destruction of sugar cane pests, caused a fire on the steamer Innisfail at Townsville jetty this morning The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The tug Undine, which was blown up on December 28, now lies in halves on the bed of the harbour at Walsh Bay. To-day a diving party from Cockatoo Island…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A terrifying experience aboard a wrecked steamer, which was surrounded by sharks, was described to-day by the crew of the Bury Hill (4542 tons), which struck…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The holiday rush is over; perhaps we can now survey the mass of human wreckage that remains as part of the litter resultant, from the celebration of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The skull of a man believed to have been drowned when the vessel James Service was wrecked near Mandurah 59 years ago, was found washed ashore near…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wreckage was sighted yesterday on the South Coast off Bermagul by the interstate cargo steamer Coolana. It is a danger to navigation and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some years after the wreck of the City of Newcastle in 1878 at the fool of Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle, a rumor gained credence among the mining population around Cook's Hill that the Wreck Was haunted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thirty-two persons, including two women and two children, have perished in a wreck, in the stormy Pentland Firth,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirty—not 32—lives were lost in the wreck of the Joanna Thorden in the Pentland Firth. A lifeboat In which there were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirty—not 32—lives were lost in the wreck of the Joanna Thorden in the Pentland Firth. A lifeboat in which there originally…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Glasgow cargo steamer Diamond (618 tons), sank in the Thames off Greenlithe two minutes after a collision with Norwegian motor vessel, Herangar (4877 tons).—Air Mail…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A cyclonic storm struck the township of Kearsley, near Cessnock, shortly after 7 o'clock on Saturday night. Within a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Walney Island, which lies just across a narrow channel from Barrow-in-Furness, where the Orcades was launched…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extensive flooding marked a cloudburst in the Dannevirke district. Two bridges were washed away, and railway services were disorganised…
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