May Be Sent to Singapore Passengers on Steamer Nieuw Holland Sydney
The tangle over the refusal of the Chinese crew to work the freighter Silksworth is proving costly to the owners…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 19
Century of Lifeboat Service
The lifeboat service in Newcastle this year completes Us century. In the years following 1838 the crews were composed of anyone who could pull a decent oar, but in 1867 the service Was organised on a sounder basis. The story is told by Alderman W. J. Goold, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For New Guinea New Schooner Leaves Sydney SYDNEY
Under the commond of Captain Kingdon the auxiliary schooner Chinsurah left Sydney yesterday for New Guinea. The vessel which was built to the order…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bombs on Steamer Pirate 'Plane in Mediterranean London
An unknown aeroplane bombed a French steamer 50 miles from Barcelona to-day. The steamer Qued Mellah. of 2413…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Motorship Brought to Sydney on Steamer's Deck Built for Noumea Trade Sydney
Consigned to Mr. H. C. Sleigh, of Sydney, for the Societe des Iles Loyalty, of Noumea, the new motorship, Le Phoque, will reach Sydney on Thursday as deck…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →French Motorship German Steamer's Deck Cargo for New Caledonia Trade Sydney
The French passenger motorship Le Phoque arrived to-day as deck cargo on board the German steamer Stassfurt. Le Phoque, the tonnage of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Colony's First Steamer Built at Clarencetown
One hundred and six years ago to-day the first steamer of Australian construction had been built at Clarencetown, and was on her way to Sydney to be fitted with engines. The story of the early steamboats, according to Alderman W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Sunk by Rebel 'Planes 26 Survivors Two Observers Saved (Australian Associated Press.) MADRID, October 31
Spanish insurgent war planes, dropping 15 bombs, sank the British steamer Jean Weems, of 2349 tons register, 16 miles off the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One Home for Two Families Many Marriages Have Been Wrecked
Dear Dorothy Dix,—My fiance and I plan to be married in the near future, but we are confronted by a very perplexing problem. His father and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship Signalled Sick Captain Transferred in Lifeboat MELBOURNE
To save time in getting the master, Captain Cecil Roy, to hospital, the freighter Ellaroo called on the interstate passenger vessel Manunda near Gabo…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clan Steamer in Port
The new Clan Line freighter Clan Campbell, which paid her first visit to Newcastle last month, returned to the port yesterday afternoon. She berthed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Steamer Due To-day
The Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd.'s new steamer, Beltana, which is on her maiden voyage in the Australian trade, is due at Newcastle early this morning from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Maiden Voyage Beltana at Newcastle New Cargo Steamer
Similar in design and cargo-carrying capacity to the Bungaree, which made her first visit to Newcastle in August 1936, the Beltana entered the port for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Infernal Machine in Ireland Rent Office Wrecked Dublin
An Infernal machine partly wrecked a rent office at Loughrea (County Galway), where the Earl of Harewood's agent to due to-morrow to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fears for Steamer Overdue from Sydney St. John's (Newfoundland), November 8
The steamer Calgadoc, with a crew of 15 and a cargo of coal from Sydney is six days overdue. it is feared that the vessel foundered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer's Plight at Sea Ran Short of Coal on Trip From Vancouver Put Into Newcastle To-day to Rebunker
With coal supplies almost completely exhausted and after having burned wood in her fires for more than 20 hours, the Strath, steamer Helmspey (8500 tons), made an emergency call at Newcastle this afternoon, five weeks out from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Infernal Machine Earl's Rent Office Wrecked in Ireland DUBLIN, November 8
An infernal machine partly wrecked a rent office in Loughrea (County Galway), where the Earl of Harewood's agent was due to-morrow to collect the quart[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lugger Wrecked Crew's Ordeal in Small Boats Lived on Shell Meat Clung to Hull for Five Hours TOWNSVILLE
After the lugger Koza was wrecked on a reef about 150 miles north-east of Townsville early on Thursday, those on board spent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →21 RESCUED Survivors from Greek Steamer Seven Known Dead Guiding 'Plane Routs Sharks (Australian Associated Press.) NORFOLK (Virginia), November 15
Twenty-one of the crew of the Greek freighter. Tzenny Chandris, which sank in the Atlantic coastal storm which battered North…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crew's Panic Battered Greek Steamer Seaman Attacks Master Norfolk (Virginia), November 15
Horton Balaskas, the third engineer of the Greek steamer Tzenny Chandris, which sank in the Atlantic coastal storm an Saturday, to-day told a sensational story…
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