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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 19
Black ana twisted wreckage has been seen in the third line of breakers at Palm Beach. 'Planes searching for the lost Stinson airliner are being sent to investigate. Captain Blackwood, of Wahroonga, who is staying at Palm Beach telephoned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These articles are based on the records of Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society, and information supplied by members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tender of Morts Dock and Engineering Co. Ltd. Balmain for the construction of the new pilot steamer Captain Cook has been accepted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer [?] a unit of a Hudson River ferry service owned by Samuel Rosoff, ws burned to the water's edge last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The steamer Odell, a unit of a Hudson River ferry service, owned by Samuel Rosoff, was burnt to the water's edge last night. Rosoff, who is a millionaire,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Ltd. has been advised that its new steamer, Mulubinba, was launched on Saturday from the yards of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cutting their way through rugged, thickly timbered country in the MacPherson Ranges, members of one rescue party early to-day reached the wrecked Stinson and its two survivors. Other parties are on the way. Six 'planes helped to guide them on their tortuous way. Rain is falling and clouds wreathe the precipitous crags of the dangerous country. With O'Reilly's party is a doctor, desperately pushing on to succor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These articles are based on the records of Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society, and information supplied by members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →J. R. Binstead, one of the two survivors of the Stinson airliner crash photographed on the stretcher at a halt for water when he was being carried down the Macpherson Range yesterday afternoon. Dr. Lawler, right, who climbed through frightful country for 7½ hours to reach the wrecked 'plane with (left) Mr. R. Proud, brother of J. S. Proud, who was rescued from the 'plane crash with J. R. Binstead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A speedboat caught fire near Watson's Bay this afternoon, and two young men who were in it were rescued by the pilot steamer Captain Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Five or six taxi drivers are believed to have been drowned when a motor launch, after drifting helplessly in heavy seas, was smashed against rocks at North Head to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. Sarah Purcell, 62, a widow, of Laidley, Queensland, was found dead in her bunk on the interstate steamer Canberra early to-day. When the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bound for New York on their way to begin a world cruise in a 99 ton fishing schooner which they have bought in Massachusetts. Mr. Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two women and three children on the Spanish steamer Galdames were killed in a battle between Spanish Government craft and rebel cruisers off Bilbao. The loyalist craft endeavoured to prevent the capture of the Galdames by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A lone soldier among the ruins of the Palais de Lira, in the Rue de Blasco Ibane[?], during the fight for Madrid, which has suffered 33 aerial bombardments in 10 weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 'plane set out this afternoon in search of a ketch which vanished last night from Victoria Dock. The police are cooperating with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aircraft bombed the French steamer Djebel Antar (3257 tons) off the island of Minorea, states a Paris message. One bomb fell on the deck of the steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The greatest cyclone since 1897 damaged practically every house in Darwin last night. Many houses were wrecked. A great many of the white population and hundreds of Chinese are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Four officers on the British steamer King James carried out the watches and nursed the remainder of the ship's complement for n fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In 1840, Adelaide was all agog on hearing of the massacre of a ship-wrecked crew by a little-known tribe of blacks inhabiting the country to the south-east of the mouth of the Murray…
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