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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14
More than 100 years ago the authorities in Sydney were inquiring from the police at Paterson's Plains about the whereabouts of a prisoner, J. Wisehood. The prisoner, however, had been one of three who were drowned in a vain dash for liberty. A fourth prisoner survived,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On her maiden voyage to Australia from the United Kingdom, the new British tramp steamer Matthew Flinders reached Newcastle yesterday to bunker…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Engineers who have been working night and day dismantling the Empire flying boat Coorong, which was blown ashore in Darwin Harbour three weeks ago, have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At daybreak to-day searchers recovered portion of the mutilated body of Aubrey Kenneth Biddle, 28, who was drowned yesterday with his wife, Phyllis Biddle,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Captain R. C. Creer, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy and now commander of the steamer Asian, related on his arrival in Sydney to-day on a holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A sunfish, weighing nearly two tons, was washed up on Hungary Head Beach, near Urunga, to-day. It was 17 feet wide and 16 feet from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A terrible wound in the body and other evidence that it had lost a desperate battle with some other sea monster was disclosed on examination of a huge sun…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A a result of the inquiry into the attack on the British steamer Marionga on December 29, the British Government…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →M. Beria, new Chief of the Ogpu (Soviet secret police) has ordered a through purge of the teaching staffs in the Red Army schools, according to a message received…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The steamer Belbowrie, bound from Sydney to Shellharbour to load blue metal, ran aground in heavy rain off Maroubra at 9.30 o'clock to-night. The crew of 10 were rescued with considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early yesterday morning crowds of people collected on Maroubra Beach to collect prices of wreckage from the steamer Belbowrie. The vessel went aground on Monday night and was destroyed by heavy seas…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The steamer Cumbay Star foundered 150 miles west of Bombay. Twenty-eight Indian members of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mysterious explosions occurred in eight centres in various parts of England early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eighty-four British boys and girls arrived by the Strathaird to-day to make their home in Australia. It was the largest number to come…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The crew of three and an aerodrome inspector were killed when a new Lockheed 14 airliner owned by Guinea Airways crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Although there has been no formal identification, the police are satisfied that a body, clad in bathers and wearing life-jacket, which was found at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Thank goodness I've been able to save all my 50 wedding presents," a 23-year-old girl coolly said when she stepped with her young skipper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crowded on the tiny French steamer, Neo Hebridias, Jewish refugees had an uncomfortable voyage from Noumea…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seven of the crew of the St. Ives (Cornwall) lifeboat are believed to have been drowned when the lifeboat was lost in a terrific north-westerly gale this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Dalftam, which was involved in the pig-iron dispute, reached Sydney to-day, and was docked. She is expected to return to Port Kembla…
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