Seaman Overboard Vain Search in Lifeboat SYDNEY
Sydney Nicholson, 22, a Canadian seaman, slipped from the boat deck to the while the motorship New Zealand Star, was coming up the coast from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 16
Total Wreck Yacht in Swansea Channel Washed on Breakwater
What seemed at first a simple stranding ended in the destruction of the large auxiliary-engined yacht, Sea Sovereign, during the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Limerick Goes Aground Vancouver
The Union Company's steamer Limerick (8724 tons) laden with sugar from FIJI, went aground in the harbor. It was refloated and towed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Aground
Vancouver, January 3.—The Union Company's steamer Limerick (8724 tons) laden with sugar from Fiji went aground in the harbour. It was refloated and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Tenders Sale of Saros Wreck MELBOURNE
Three Victorian firms have submitted tenders for the purchase of the steamer Saros, which ran aground last month at Cape Everard. The tenders, which closed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →STEAMER'S S.O.S. From Off Lake Macquarie Sydney
The Interstate steamer Koonda received an S.O.S. message from the coastal steamer Himatangi at 2 p.m. this afternoon and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stoker in Irons Christmas Day Assaults Steamer Port Nicholson London, January 5
A Christmas Day struggle on the high seas aboard the steamer Port Nicholson was related at Hull when James Loupox Irwin, a stoker, was sentenced to six…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Whirlwind Wrecks Buildings Timber Mill Huts Destroyed Auckland
A trail of destruction was left by a whirlwind at Mokai, 40 miles from Rotorua. Two mills owned by the Taupo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Freighter Purchased Fisherman's Tender Accepted Melbourne
Mr. David Allan, a Mallacoota fisherman and guest-home proprietor, whose tender for the purchase of the wrecked freighter Saros at Cape Everard has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saros Wreck Sold Melbourne
The wreck of the interstate freighter Saros, which piled up on the rocks at Cape. Everard, has been purchased by Mr. David Allan, fisherman and guest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Special Steamer Chartered Eucharistic Congress Arrangements
For the coming Eucharistic Congress in Newcastle a specially chartered steamer, the Gwydir, will leave Sydney on the afternoon of February 19…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Runaway Wheels Wreck Shop Narrow Escapes at Mayfield Children Leaped From Danger
Pedestrians and little children leaped for safety, escaping by inches, when seven pairs of railway truck wheels, fitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mother-in-law Home Wrecker
Dear Dorothy Dix.— My husband is one of the best men in the world. We have two fine children and we were happy until two years ago when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Samoan Clipper Destroyed All on Board Lost Scraps of Wreckage Tell of Fierce Explosion Mysterious Features Unexplained Two-hour Gap in Log Record (Australian Associated Press.) New York, January 13
A terrific explosion destroyed the Pan American Airways flying-boat Samoan Clipper 14 miles from Pago Pago. Captain Musick and his crew of six are dead…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bomb Wrecks Room Italian Seriously Hurt Ingham (Q.)
An Italian baker, Vincenzo Dagostino, 36, was blown out of his bed and seriously injured last night when a bomb exploded outside his room. He is in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wreck of Saros Marine Inquiry Opened Melbourne
The stranding of the coastal freighter Saros on the rocks near the Cape Everard lighthouse on Christmas Day was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Launch Wrecked Off New Zealand Christchurch
A fishing launch with eight persons aboard struck a submerged rock in Foveaux Strait and was badly holed. The launch drifted against rocky…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer in Cyclone Sends Out S.O.S. the Steering Gear Was Swept Away Repairs Made in Two Hours Brisbane
After sending an S.O.S. call for assistance at 2.30 a.m. today the Burns-Philp steamer Montoro drifted helplessly off…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain Blamed Wreck of Saros Marine Court's Finding Melbourne
The Marine Court, which inquired into the stranding of the freighter Saros, on a ledge of rock under Cape Everard Lighthouse on Christmas Day, to-day found…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sun Stop Press Saros Wreck
Melbourne, Thursday: A report from Cann River states that Mr. F. Allah, a Mallacoota fisherman, who paid £70 for the wreck of the…
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