Escape in Dinghies Wreck Ordeal in Queensland Townsville
Tormented by a burning thirst, their tongues swollen and protruding from their mouths, a party of 20 Japanese and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 19
Wrecked Lugger Ordeal for Survivors in Dinghies Without Water Townsville
Twenty Japanese and aborigines reached the Queensland coast after a voyage of three days and two nights in two small dinglues after their lugger had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dutch Steamer's Visit
The Dutch steamer Tjikembang, of 8013 tons, which was built in 1914, made her first visit to Newcastle yesterday from Java to load a cargo of coal. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer From War Zone at Newcastle
The Dutch steamer Tjikembang reached Newcastle yesterday from the East on its first voyage to Australia. The vessel is in command of Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caught in Flood Runaway Steamer at Lisbon Damage Totals £10,000 LISBON, November 23
Five tugs were needed to check the runaway British steamer Dalhanna, which was torn from its moorings by floods at the mouth of the Tagus, while unloading 6000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shipwrecked in Table Bay Misleading Light Blamed Cape Town
Claiming that a misleading light caused the wreck of a ship In Table Bay, its owners and the owners of the cargo, are suing for £88,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Steamer Ordered from Scotland by C.S.R. Company Big Sugar Crop for 1937 SYDNEY
The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd. has ordered a new 5500-ton steamer from the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Dundee, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Misleading Light Blamed for Shipwreck Claim for Damages (Australian Associated Press.) Cape Town, November 23
Claiming that a misleading light caused the wreck of a hip in Table Bay, its owners and the owners of the cargo are suing for £88,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →False Pretences Admitted How Seaman Raised Money Ashore
Pleading guilty at the Newcastle Police Court to-day to four charges of false pretences, William Ernest Kirkland. 31, seaman, was fined £1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feared Lost Steamer and 17 of Crew Vanished in Rain Squall New York, November 25
It is feared that 17 of the crew are lost with the steamer Nollington Castle, after the vessel struck a submerged object near Haiti (West Indies)…
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When the Bungaree, the recent addition to the Adelaide Steamship Company's cargo fleet, left Newcastle for Fremantle at 2.45 p.m. on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disappearance of Dentist Wrecked Launch Found Cairns
The strange disappearance of a Gordon Vole dentist is puzzling the Cairns police. He is Louis Arthur Miller, aged [?]0…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Table Bay Wrecks Sea Retains its Treasure
A great attempt to bring up treasure from the floor of Table Bay has ended in failure, states the "South African Newsletter." The bay is littered, with wrecks,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Weekly Exports Dutch Steamer's Big Cargo
When she sailed from Newcastle yesterday morning for Java the Dutch steamer Tjikembang had 9200 tons, of coal and 702 tons of bunkers, loaded at the cranes…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fruit Express Derailed, Wrecked Near Grafton Vans in Creek All Traffic Held Up GRAFTON
The fruit express, laden with 3600 cases of bananas for Melbourne and-Adelaide, left the rails at Dilkoon, 16 miles north of Grafton,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Steamer Launched
London, December 4.—The coastal steamer Wanaka, ordered by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, was launched on the Clyde to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Crash Two Wrecked 'Planes at Cootamundra COOTAMUNDRA
Two more Royal Australian Air Force machines were involved in mishaps to-day. One crashed from 150 feet and the occupants. Pilot-sergeant Parker and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Feared Dead Flying Bishop and Wife 'Plane Wreckage Seen Khartoum, December 8
It is feared that the Assistant Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan (Right Rev. H. G. Bullen) and his wife perished while flying from Malakal to Juba…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →'Plane Wrecked Dived into Brisbane River Pilot's Narrow Escape Brisbane
A Gipsy Moth, piloted by Norman William Roberts, 29, of East Ipswich, crashed into the Brisbane River, about a quarter of a mile from Lone Pine,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Almost Ashore Excavator at Wickham End of Salvage in Sight
Due to the excellent progress made this week, the Bucyrus excavator which slipped into Throsby Creek off a lighter on November 11 is almost ashore. The…
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