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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14
The Marine Board of Queensland found to-day that the wreck of the small vessel Atlantic on Flinders Reef on the morning of June 11, 1939, was due primarily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Marine Board's inquiry Into the wreck of the motor yacht. Atlantic on Flinders Reef. In Moveton Bay, early on June 11. it was stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The ketch Defender, which ran on a bank at Tomahawk Point, on the north-east coast of Tasmania on Monday night, when on her way to Melbourne from…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The story of the life-boat crew in Newcastle is a record of service, of many courageous acts, and, unfortunately, the loss of many brave lives. There is probably no part of the Australian coast more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If the weather keeps fine in Ringarooma Bay during the next week, there may still be a chance of salvaging the ketch Defender, which was driven ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →How the lifeboat, in 1867, went out of the harbor at the height of a storm on the strength of a rumor that a vessel was in trouble, and was unable to fight her way back to port until the next day. was told by Mr. W. J. Goold to the Historical Society at a recent meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The French steamer Sunik (5009 tons) caught fire and sank when she was rammed by the Swedish steamer Grangesberg (4575 tons) during a fog in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In order to seek work as an electrician, an ex-sailor. George Pope, is planning to reach New Zealand with his wife and family in a 35ft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fireball fell in a South Perth street yesterday, and caused considerable damage. It wrecked an big wireless mast, smashed windows, damaged radio sets,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In last night's storm four motor boats, including the 35ft cruiser Bona, were driven ashore at Double Bay, but none is seriously damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The marriage ban imposed in certain professions was wrecking lives, speakers declared at the Imperial Social Hygiene…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Potter, 22, who has arrived in Sydney from Bremantle by the Katoomba, considers himself the luckiest man alive. He recently survived an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Estonian schooner, Ahto, which left Sydney at the beginning of July, with several Australians on board, struck an uncharted reef 50 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How a huge watersprout imperilled the Anglo-Peruvian was told when the freighter reached Sydney. Usually a wide berth is given to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A mob. which attacked the British Era Market Co.'s premise in Tientsin. hurled typewriters into the river and smashed furniture. The staff made their escape…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A huge canopy of smoke and a boom which could be heard throughout the city, told of a great explosion which endangered St. Paul's Cathedral. SEVENTY-THREE PEOPLE were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Estonian schooner Alto, which left Sydney in July on a leisurely cruise to New York, via the Barrier Reef and New Guinea, struck an uncharted reef 59 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The auxiliary ketch Defender, which was given up as a total loss a few weeks ago has been refloated and will resume her timber carrying trade between St…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At a Press conference at his Hyde Park estate yesterday, President Roosevelt accused the groups in Congress which had wrecked his neutrality, lending,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An interesting address on the elimination of the Oyster Bank by means of the breakwater was given by Dr. B. W. Champion before the Historical Society…
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