Steamer Aground
While on a voyagle from Brisbane to Cairns the steamer Nautillus, loaded with fertilisers and bridge material, ran aground at Sandy Straits, on Saturday…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924
499 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 25
Centenary National Lifeboat Institution (Australian Press Association.)
LONDON, Monday.—The National Life-boat Instit[?]tion, which has saved 60,000 lives, is celebrating its centenary. It hopes to raise £500.000 this year to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There is a possibility that the steamer Moreton Bay will not sail to-morrow because the stewards declare that unless certain conditions are conceded to…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—While on a voyage from Brisbane to Cairns the steamer Nautilus, loaded with fertilisers and bridge material, ran aground on Sandy Straits on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday -- The Labor Council has declared the steamer Port Lyttleton "black'' as a protest against "the savage sentences imposed on…
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Pirates attempted to seize the river steamer On Lee, when she was only ninety minutes steam out from Hong Kong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toll of Sea Tragedy on Goodwin Sands Work of the Lifeboat Crew (Australian Press Association.)
LONDON, Monday.—The inquest on the sailor who died as the result of the wreck of a ketch on the Goodwin Sands proved most pathetic owing to public criticisms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wollongbar Wreck
D[?]pite the fact that public bedies in Byron Bay have made efforts to have the hulk of the Wollongbar, which was w[?] in August, 1921, removed from…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Though the steamer Pruth, which is aground near Port Moresby, has been abandoned, her large cargo of case benzine will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Salvage. Wrecked Steamer Armagh
LONDON, Friday.—Australian Press Association: The Salvage Association reports that the cargo salved from the steamer Armagh, which was wrecked in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Commonwealth steamer Port Lyttelton was yesterday towed into dock for repairs, but as the vessel had been declared "black," the unionists at…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A meeting of the Labour Council has ratified the union-group's action in declaring the steamer Port. Lyttelton "black."…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Japanese freighter Pacific Maru was arrested at Fremantle by Myer's Pty., Ltd., Melbourne. It is alleged that the owners, Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Without Food Man Clings to Capsized Boat Washed Ashore at Broken Head Strange Tale of the Sea Single-handed Voyage
A strange tale of the sea was told by a young Irishman, Captain Marshall Dempster, who, clinging to a capsized sailing vessel, was washed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Story of Adventure. Washed Ashore at Byron Bay
On Friday night a lad named Marr, noticed a man clinging to the rocks at Broken Head, Byron Bay. He assisted the man to the shore, and then to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thrilling Voyage Story of the Wrecked Mariner Clinging to Upturned Boat Many Sharks Swim Around
BYRON BAY, Sunday.—Considerable interest centres round Captain Marshall Dempster, who was washed ashore on Friday evening last at Broken Head after having…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--The body of Henry Thomas Bryan, one of the victims of the boating disaster at Aspendale yesterday, was washed ashore at…
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BYRON BAY, Monday.-Mr. W. J. Grimwood, wharfinger at Byron Bay, received a telegram to-night from the secretary to the Superintendent, of Navigation at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Nick of Time Arrested on Outgoing Steamer
LONDON, Monday.--Detectives, armed with a Warrant for the arrest of George Hobson, a moulder, who was wanted at Sheffield on the charge of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked on Goodwin Sands
The inquest into the cause of the death of the sailor who died in the wreck on Goodwin Sands was most pathetic, owing to the public criticism…
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