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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
83 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.) : A naval diver, groping around a wreck 258ft. under the murky English Channel yesterday, made out the name Affray. He reported that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The ketch Mizpah, which went from Newcastle to Sydney nearly a fortnight ago to take part in the Sydney-Newcastle Jubilee yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—A gun-powder explosion to-day wrecked a mill at the munitions plant of Nobel (A/sia) Pty. Ltd. at Deer Park, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: A French stowaway on the U.S. freighter Pioneer Star smashed a pair of handcuffs, dived overboard and swam ashore off Bradley's Head today. The stowaway, Jean Durind…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wed. (A.A.P.): An attempt to wreck coal bins at Ngakawau, on the west coast of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Cardiff Progress Association will ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) to give immediate attention to the wreck of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man was shockingly burnt about the face and body to-day when fireworks wrecked a shed behind his home in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Navigation Department has warned shipping on the east coast of Australia to look out for the ketch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A windstorm wrecked a clubhouse, hangar and two Tiger Moth aircraft at Orange to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: A semi-trailer which last night completely demolished a newly-built two-storied shop and residence in Dumbledon-rd., Beverley Hills, ruined the hopes of a mother and daughter who had been planning their own business for two years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A disabled 45ft. ketch, Seafarer, came ashore at Redhead Beach today after drifting helplessly for 14 days in huge seas and in the face of furious westerly gales. Its crew of nine were practically without food and water and were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Lionel Golden, captain of the 45ft. pearling ketch, Seafarer, which was wrecked on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Members of the crew of the 45ft, ketch, Seafarer, had little sleep in the 13 days they were drifting off the New South Wales coast. The ketch came ashore on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 75ft. ketch Inspire finished a stage of her 16,000-mile journey from Newhaven, England, to Sydney when the pilot steamer Birubi towed her into Newcastle last night. The ketch's mainsail was torn,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mrs. Stephen Davies who opened the Newcastle Diocesan Women's Auxiliary Missionary Fair yesterday lived on Thursday Island for nearly 20 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND, August 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Forty members of the crew of the wrecked troopship Wahine arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, 20. A.A.P.—At least 100 people died in the Jamaica hurricane at the week-end, according to latest reports. Fifty died in Kingston, the capital, and the others in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I want to contradict statements that serious pillaging of the ketch Seafarer occurred after it was wrecked on Redhead…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Russia is expected to make an all-out effort to wreck the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference, which begins next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ROCKHAMPTON, Sunday.—The disembowelled body of a man, with one leg missing, was found in a drifting ketch near…
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