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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
"The Times" has a report from Lloyd's agents at Swatow that a Japanese warship, despite the intervention of the British destroyer Thracian, interrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Australian schooner, Eileen, sank 20 miles from Koepang to-day, but all who were on board are safe. The Eileen, which was bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →With eight members of her crew missing. the German steamer Dar'mund arrived at Sydney to-day from the Gulf of Mexico…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mary Ann McGuire, licensee of the Grand Junction Hotel, Kenrick-street. The Junction, Newcastle, was fined £2. with 8s costs by Mr. Soane. S.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A youth, who stoned away on the Monterey at Auckland, was not allowed to land in Sydney to-day when the liner arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Henry Powell, 25, seaman, was fined £1, in default two days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and £2, in default foul days' imprisonment, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Some men will call for a pint of beer and others for a schooner but the man who drinks the schooner generally gets a little less for his money,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Frank Hughes, junior chief engineer on the steamer Nimbin, died at his home at Double Bay early to-day. Mr. Hughes had been associated with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The masts of the luxury liner Paris, which sank at the docks after a disastrous fire, have been cut off the enable the Normandie to clear the harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Six lives were lost as the result of the Cullercoats (Northumberland) motor lifeboat capsizing in the breakers during a practice run…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The big French liner Normaridle was successfully manoeuvred oast the wreck of the burned liner, Paris, at Havre when taken from dry dock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →According to advices from Chungking, the headquarters of the Chinese Army, General Chaing Kai-shek's latest offensive involves…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The 28ft. auxiliary ketch Hispaniola, which left Sydney 16 days ago for America, via Lord Howe Island, unexpectedly returned to Broken Bay to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With part of the money they obtained from the sale of their grocery business two brothers, Eric and Tom Stokes, purchased a 30ft. ketch. They will leave…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Duke of Kent, Governor-General-designate of Australia, presided at the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institute…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The pilot and two passengers were injured and the machine was wrecked when a twin-engined eight-passenger Dragon Rapide plane owned by Airlines of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sir Edward Parry, when Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company, did everything he could to encourage industry. The building of boats…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →A consignment of 500 tons of steel plates from the Newcastle Steel Works of the Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd. was slipped at Sydney by the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Five boys, all under eight, recently wrecked the interior of St. Thomas's Church, Streatham (London), which is kept open always to encourage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sunstroke was the cause of the forced landing of the French airman. Gilbert Denis, near Midnapore. His machine was wrecked and the rest of his flight…
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