Mountainous Seas Violent Weather along Darwin Coast. Steamer Overdue
BRISBANE, Wednesday. A message from Darwin states that violent weather prevails all along the coast. The steamer Kinchella is overdue at…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
348 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 18
Job Control Steamer Held Up
HOBART, Saturday. Job control tactics on the part of firemen prevented the Kekerangu, a cargo boat belonging to the Union Co., from sailing yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Racial Battle on Board a Steamer Fremantle
Passengers on board the Minderoo, which arrived yesterday from East Indies, bring news of a racial riot between 44 Macassar contract coolies and 20 ships' coolies during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Injured. Violent Explosion at Pyrmont Sugar Works. Wall of Main Building Wrecked
SYDNEY, Saturdays. Five men were injured, three of them seriously, in a violent explosion, which wrecked a wall of one of the main buildings at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm at Broome Schooner Blown Inland Perth
Particulars of the storm at Broome on Friday and Saturday night show that hardy a house, troe, or structure of any kind escaped the fury of the visitation. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Black and White. Steamer Tied Up
SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Waterside Workers decided at their stop work meeting to-day, not to reverse their decision to keep the steamer Corrimal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Black and White the Steamer Corrimal Sydney
The waterside workers decided at their stopwork meeting to-day not to reverse their decision, to keep the steamer Corrimal "black," despite the fact that the seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Steamer. Attacked by Chinese Pirates
SYDNEY, Friday.-News of a thrilling attack by Chinese pirates on the British steamer Tung Chaw was brought to Sydney by the Arafura…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrific Explosions When Electric Wires Cross at Manly. Women rush Screaming with Fear Telephones are Wrecked and Fires Started
SYDNEY, Friday. At Manly, early this morning, a City Council hgih tension electric wire, carrying a current of 5000 volts, snapped and fell across…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Badly Smashed Halifax
The Norwegian steamer Johanne Dybwaid bound from England to Boston has sent out a wireless that she is badly smashed and needs a ship to stand by. The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Harbour Collision Steamer Hits Crowded Milson's Point Ferry Boat. Latter Damaged, but no one Hurt
SYDNEY, Monday.--A collision occurred in Sydney Harbour this morning, between the steamer Wear, inward bound from Geelong and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Epic of the Sea Steamer President Roosevelt Meets with Warm Reception in England for Brilliant Rescue of Vessel's Crew
LONDON, Sunday.--British tenders, A flying the signals of the international code, "Very well done," met the liner President Roosevelt at Plymouth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Story of Sea Tragedy. Wreck of the Laristan
LONDON, Tuesday.-Another thrilling sea story is told by Captain Uruspts, of the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, on arrival at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Sea Story Wreck of the Laristan (Reuter.) LONDON
Another thrilling sea story is told by Captain Uruspts, of the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, on arrival at Queenstown, where he was given a civic welcome…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Pirates. Seize British Steamer
A stirring story of piracy in China waters is told by officers of the E. and A. steamer Arafura. The China Navagation Company's steamer Tunglelow,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Overtakes Steamer. Delayed Passenger's Plight
In these days of rapid, transit and aerial navigation, such things as weddings in the air, doctors flying hundreds of miles to patients, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Stung Oppressive Heat Drives. Crowds to Beaches. Wind Drives Bluebottles Ashore. The Two Meet
SYDNEY, Sunday.--To-day was probably the most oppressive day Sydney has experienced this summer. Although the maximum temperature…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensational Smash. Crowded Bus Wrecked. Miraculous Escape of Occupants
BRISBANE, Monday.—A sensational accident occurred at a level crossing near Windsor railway station at about 10.30 o'clock oil Saturday night, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on Steamer. Vessel Run Aground
LONDON, Tuesday.--A Batavia message says the Australian freighter Gairnbill arrived at Padang (Sumatra) afire in two holds. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old Wreck in Murrumbidgee
The Murrumbidgee River at Wagga is very low at present and there were many interested spectators at the beach at the eastern end of Kincaid-street to view the…
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