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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14
A wrecked steamer is reported to be on an uncharted reef 20 miles south-east of Willis Island, 300 miles cast of Cairns. As there have been two reports of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A mystery of the sea seems to have been provided by the report of a wrecked steamer on an uncharted reef 20 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After striking a gale in the Tasman the auxiliary ketch Hispaniola returned to Palm Beach to-day with a broken chronometer, the main water tank…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The British steamer Haitan reports that Japanese machine-guns prevented the landing of passengers and cargo at Foochow, according to the Hongkong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fears for the safety of six fishermen who left Cronulla early yesterday, were allayed today when their launch reached Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Reception Room, City Hall, next Tuesday night, the President of the Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society (Mr. W. J. Goold) will lecture…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The master of the rescue ship Australien has sent a radio message to the master of the stranded steamer Fotini Carras asking him…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Swedish steamer Fotini Carras, of 4466 tons, is still hard and fast on Middle Bellona Reef, about 250 miles west of New Caledonia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man was drowned and eight others narrowly escaped death when the former mine-sweeper Atlantic, latterly used as a fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Estonian schooner Ahto, owned and commanded by Captain Ahto Walter, put into Sydney Harbour to-day. The 70-ton Ahto was the first craft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Despite a search by plane to-day, no trace wan found of the body of William Robert Lee, who was washed away when the motor-ship Atlantic was wrecked on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paul Gugich, of Port Kembla, said that he was so upset after his launch caught fire near Shellharbor on Monday night that he did not tell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An aerial photograph of the former mine-sweeper. Atlantic, which was wrecked off Flinders Reef, to the north of Cape Moreton…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Faced with the mysterious disappearance of the launch Nerita with 12 men aboard off Moreton Reef lost week-end, searchers are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Danish steamer Australian transhipped the crew of the wrecked Greek steamer Fotini Carras outside the three-mile limit to the Tanda,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After he had worked all night baking cakes for the week-end trade at his shop at North Adelaide, Alexander Thomas McKenzie, a baker, struck a match to light…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seven persons were seriously injured and 32 others slightly hurt when a time bomb exploded in a Jewish cafe in the centre of the city. The building was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eighteen Arabs were killed and 24 others were injured as a result of the simultaneous explosion of two bombs in the market place at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five floating objects off Cape Moreton were seen from the air to-day. They are believed to be wreckage from the Nerita, a 45ft. launch which has been missing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Out of hundreds of applications received from all parts of Australia, Captain Walters, master of the Estonian schooner Ahto, has chosen Miss Rowena Bray, a…
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