Shot Line Ashore with Gun Modern Equipment on Awatea Sydney
The Awatea had an aggressive look about her to-day as she swung into Circular Quay on arrival from Auckland. The second Officer (Mr. Knight)…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 19
'Plane Wreckage Found Off Norfolk Coast LONDON, March 25
A Bedfordshire detective has gone to Norwich to examine the wreckage of a 'plane found in the sea off the Norfolk coast. It was suggested that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yacht Wrecked in Hobson's Bay Blown Ashore at St. Kilda Melbourne
Blown on the rocks at St. Kilda in a storm last night. Messrs. G. Offen and C. Noakes lost their 22ft. cabin yacht Comet and all their holiday gear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lost Propeller New Zealand Steamer Arrival in London London, March 28
Following the receipt of a radio message stating that she had lost the star board propeller when passing Dungeness, and needed assistance, tugs were sent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Air Mail Photo of Wrecked Stinson
All that remained of the Stinson monoplane, which crashed and burst into flames after taking off from Archerfield Aerodrome, Brisbane, early yesterday morning. The pilot, Mr. Thomas Stewart Cameron, and a Chinese merchant, Mr. Ernest Shang, were incinerated. Photo by Air Mail…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crisis in India Congress Party's Aim "Wreck Constitution" (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 27
Reports from Bombay stated that a further development in the constitutional crisis occurred when the Congress Party refused to take office in the Madras and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great Gale of 1897 Maitland Wreck Described
The Cawarra gate of 1866 and the Maitland gale of 1897 were both named after two steamers which were wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stricken Steamer Has Recovered Sa[?] Francisco
The American cargo steamer Volunteer, which was in trouble about 800 miles off the coast of Japan, is proceeding to Kobe under her own power…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Skiff Wrecked Gale in Victoria Cold End to Easter Melbourne
The Easter holidays came to a wintry conclusion to-day, when temperatures fell so low that falls of snow were received on the Alps. Along the coast the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spectacular Blaze in Brisbane Firms' Heavy Losses Walls Wrecked by Explosions £100,000 Damage Brisbane
Large quantities of oil, kerosene, turpentine and other highly inflammable stocks were destroyed in a £100,000 blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cargo Steamer Safe San Francisco, March 29
The American cargo steamer Volunteer, which was in trouble about 800 miles off the coast of Japan, in proceeding to Kobe under her own power, states a radio…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Total Loss Spanish Steamer Victim of Rebels Holed by Shells French Authorities Order Inquiry (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 30
The Spanish steamer Mar Caspio (3080 tons register) is a total loss following an attack by Spanish insurgent auxiliary craft near Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Souvenir Hunters Rush to Wrecked Flying-boat LYONS, March 31
The police guarding the wreckage of the Empire flying-boat Capricornua which crashed in the Beaujolais Mountains with the loss of five lives on March…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of Stinson Expert Tells of Instruments Brisbane
The altimeter in the Stinson, which crashed on Lamington Plateau, could have given a lower reading than the actual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bride's Lucky Escape Survivor of N.z. Wreck of 1902
Narrowly escaping drowning in the Elingamite wreck off Three King Islands, at the northern end of New Zealand in November, 1902…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer in Distress Hongkong, March 31
In response to repeated wireless calls for help from the British sleamer Kong, Ning (1996 tons), stating that she was aground off White Rock, and liable to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coastal Steamer Was Adrift Destroyer Stands by Auckland
Drifting at sea with come of its engines disabled, the coastal steamer Holmglen sought the aid of the Australian and New Zealand naval…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sloop Wrecked Caught in Heavy Sea Occupants Get Ashore Brisbane
Cast ashore on the outer beach or Stradbroke Island, near Jumpin Pin, the stoop Pelican, which was between 30 to 40 feet long, became a total wreck, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dutch Steamer Aludra in to Bunker
The 4930 ton steamer Aludra, of the Holland-Australia Line, reached Newcastle last night to load bunker coal. It is the first time the Aludra has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Distress Signals Warships Respond Small Steamer in Trouble Wellington (N.z.)
When units of the Royal Australian Navy and the New Zealand Squadron were returning to Wellington early yesterday morning after combined manoouvres…
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