Sugar Cargo All Round World Tramp Steamer in
Except oil-tankers, the vessels which take similar cargoes all the way round the world are rare. Most of them carry a variety of cargoes…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 14
Jews Mutiny on Ship Forced Captain Ashore ISTANBUL, August 13
The Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia on the steamer Parita mutinted and forced the captain to go ashore to prevent the ship leaving Turkish waters…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pitcairn Island Devastated Homes and Plantations Wrecked Deluge and Landslide Wellington (N.z.)
Pitcairn Island was devastated by the deluge recently. Hillsides were washed away, and the islanders spent a night of terror,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hope Gone For Atlantic Fliers Ships to Watch for Wreckage London, August 13
The British Admiralty announces that hope has been abandoned for the two New York airmen, Alex Loeb, 32, and Dick Deceker, 23,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Visits Strange Ports: Dunkeld's Voyage
The wanderings of Ulysses had nothing on the last voyage of the British motorship Dunkeld, at present in Newcastle to load steel for the United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourteen Killed U.S. Flying-boat Wrecked Struck Submerged Dredge Rio De Janeiro, August 13
Fourteen out of the 16 persons on board were killed when a twin-engined Pan-American Airways' flying-boat, on the way to Buenos Aires from Miami…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jones Brothers Wreck
Sir,—Dr. Champion errs slightly in his account of the wreck of the Jones Brothers, Time has not dimmed my recollection of the sad events, tragic, in that seven men…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Film Star Mobbed by Girls Tyrone Power a Nervous Wreck London
Though he was not noticed in Paris, Tyrone Power, the film star, is becoming a nervous wreck as a result of his three days' visit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stormy Voyage Two Months to Cross Bass Strait Ketch Limps to Port Melbourne
Battered by gales, with her sails hanging in ribbons, 200 gallons of water pouring into her hold each hour, and her pumps working, the ketch Carolina…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australia's Most Tragic Wreck Survivor's Story of The Dunbar Disaster
THE SHIP DUNBAR was lost near Sydney Heads on Thursday night, August 20, 1857. Only one man was saved, and that in the most miraculous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lifeboat History in Last Century
Continuing his story of the lifeboat service in Newcastle Mr, W. J. Goold relates how on Sunday morning, March 20, 1870, the ketch Ino (40 tons, Captain Harris), at the height of a southerly gale attempted to come in to port…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Teacher's Swim for Help N.Z. Launch Wrecked: Five Saved Wellington (N.z.)
When a launch was, wrecked in the trencherous French Pass, H. J. Dowrick, a schoolteacher, swans to a lighthouse, from which a boat was sent to rescue…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gale Wrecks New Garage Walls Crash at Thirroul WOLLONGONG
A new brick garage at Thirroul was wrecked this morning by a 60-mile-an-hour westerly gale. The wind entered the building by a large door, blowing over…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →What Will Japan Do? Ministers Consider New Situation Attitude Towards Axis Plans for Tokio's Adherence May Be Wrecked (Australian Associated Press.) TOKIO, August 22
Japan is concerned over the announcement of the proposed pact between Germany and Russia. The Prime Minister (Baron…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →S.S. Tyalgum Ashore at Tweed Heads Position Believed To Be Serious SYDNEY
The coastal steamer Tyalgum went ashore on the northern side of the entrance to the Tweed River early to-day. Her position…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stranded Steamer in North Hope Of Saving Tyalgum SYDNEY
An inspection of the steamer Tyalgum, which is ashore at the entrance to the Tweed River, will be carried out at low water to-day to ascertain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Rocky Point Steamer Tyalgum Stranded Swung From Tug Near Tweed Bar Tweed Heads
The coastal steamer Tyalgum, of 544 tone, was stranded on a rocky point about a quarter of a mile from the mouth of the Tweed River, about 6 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Thetis Wreck Two More Lifts Made LONDON, August 29
Two more lifts of the wrecked submarine Thetis were made to-day. The wreak is now 56 feet nearer the surface. On Monday, the Thetis was lifted on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Steamer for Beef Trade
Another new cargo vessel has been launched for the frozen and chilled beef trades of Australia and New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Turns Up in S. AFRICA German Steamer Lands British SYDNEY
After days of silence, the German steamer Aller, bound from Australian ports to Germany, has arrived in the neutral port of Lourenco Marques…
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