Launch Wreck Three Men Missing Police Search Fails Sydney
Three men are believed to have been drowned either in Botany Bay or off the Heads yesterday. The 16ft launch in which they left…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 19
Wreck Off Coast Located by Fisherman SYDNEY
The Maritime Services Board has been informed by Mr. William Hobson, a fisherman, that last night he located a wreck about three miles off Barrenjoey…
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Captain Gerald Bruce, a Torres Strait pilot, his wife, Mrs. Lily Bruce, and their 17-year-old daughter, Margaret,…
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Attempts to salvage the sunken freighter Kakariki have been abandoned, and it is almost certain that she will be destroyed as she lies in Port Phillip Bay, in 30ft, of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Bodies Recovered Botany Bay Launch Wreck SYDNEY
The body of Walter Currell, 23, of Glenbrook, who, with another man and a youth, wan drowned last Saturday in a launch wreck at Botany Bay, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dual-purpose Craft Pilot Tender and Lifeboat Sydney
The Endeavour, a motor boat of unusual design, to serve as pilot tender to the Captain Cook at Watson's Bay and carry out the rescue work of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrible Air Disaster Death-roll Now 33 Zeppelin Hindenburg Destroyed at Lakehurst Explosion While Mooring Many Occupants Jump for Lives as Blazing Wreckage Falls (Australian Associated Press.) New York, May 7
It is now believed that 33 persons perished in the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, yesterday, but of the 64 survivors it is likely that half will die from their injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Holed Collision off Dover in Fog Later Beached Near Rye London, May 8
The London steamer Willesden (4563 tons) was badly holed in a collision with Italian steamer Gianfranco (8181 tone) in thick fog in the English Channel, off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Million Will See The Coronation Procession Immense Crowds Wreck Official Estimates Solemnity of Palace Guard Upset by Canadians London
The authorities who estimated that 1,000,000 people would tee the procession on Coronation Day were made to look ridiculous by the crowd at to-day's dawn rehearsal, at which there were more than 1,000,000 spectators despite the bleak, rainy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Welcombe Fire in No. 4 Hold Racing to Cape Town London, May 10
The steamer Welcombe (5122 tons), which is proceeding to England from Newcastle (New South Wales), via Dakar, with general cargo, reports that there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collier Minmi Wrecked Ashore in Fog Two Drowned But Others Safe Heroic Rescues in Big Seas Sydney, Friday Morning
The twin screw collier, Minmi, of 1455 tons gross, owned by J. and A. Brown, Abermain Seaham Collieries, was totally wrecked on Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crew's Night Of Terror On Wrecked Collier Gallant Rescues Crowd On Shore Two Lives Lost When Minmi Hit Rocks Trapped Men's Vivid Story SYDNEY
The jagged rocks right on the point of Cape Banks. Botany Bay, claimed the steam collier Minmi and the lives of two of her crew of 25 last night. For hours, till almost dawn to-day, crowds of…
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The top photograph shows the Minimi broken in two on the rocks at Cape Banks and battered by the sea. It was on the after section, when the tide was higher, that some of the crew were trapped. The bottom picture, from the bridge, shows a sea tearing through the waist of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Had Wild Night in Darwin Wrecked Three Cells at Police Station Darwin
After his arrest on Wednesday night. Darwin's only Coronation drunk wrecked in succession all three cells at the police station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minmi Wreck Men Tell of Terrible Ordeal Panic When Crash Came Many Had Narrow Escapes SYDNEY
Dawn revealed the Minmi on the rocks at Cape Banks with her bow pointed towards Sydney and practically the whole of her starboard…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Captain Drowned N.Z. Scow Wrecked Wellington (N.z.)
While apparently sheltering from heavy weather on the East Coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, the scow Yvonne was wrecked last night on an inaccessible…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At Wreck of Minmi Praise for Police Sydney
Throughout last night the wrecked Minmi which is being pounded by seas on Cape Banks, was deserted by all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minmi Wreck Sold to Ship-breakers Thousands of Sightseers Sydney
The collier Minmi, which ran aground at Cape Bank last Thursday night was yesterday sold to Penguin Ltd., The ship. breakers began operations. immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Seas Batter Minmi Wreck May Not Stand Up Much Longer Sydney
A fairly heavy sea rolling in from the south-east buttered the Minmi wreck to-day. The after-section was taking spray right over it, lurching…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tin in Wreckage Stinson Crash Mysteries Police Suspect Opium Passenger's Body Found in Cockpit BRISBANE
The suggestion that the police suspected that a one gallon tin, stated to have been found in the ruins of the Stinson which crashed…
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