Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930

264 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 14

Premises Wrecked Unsuccessful Applicants MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 July 1930 · page 9

Over 200 boys applied for a job ad vertised by F. and G. Turner, surgeon dentists, to-day. When one lad was selected the others practically wrecked…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Historic Yacht Wrecked Poet Vila (New Hebrides)

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 July 1930 · page 5

The yacht Snark was wrecked on the island of Api (New Hebrides). This yacht was made. famous by Jack London's Voyage of the Snark." The…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Chinese Pirates Hold Up Steamer LONDON

Northern Star · Thursday 24 July 1930 · page 8

Hongkong telegrams state that Chinese pirates travelling as passengers aboard the steamer Helikon, overpowered the Chinese officers…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Shipwreck

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 24 July 1930 · page 4

She bribed the Jap deck-steward to place her chair beside his. When he found it out, c had his own removed to the other side of the ship. She…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mission Schooner Lost Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 11

The general secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia (Rev. J. Burton) has received a radio message from Samarai (Papua)…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

On Sandbank Survivors of Wreck Several Days Adrift Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 8

A radio message received from Port Moresby states that the loss of the Methodist mission launch Brerailow occurred on the night of July 10 last,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Fire at Sea Loss of German Steamer Thrilling Details London

Northern Star · Monday 28 July 1930 · page 10

A thrilling story was unfolded when the Rangitata docked at Southampton with ten passengers, including two women and two children and 53…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Signals of Distress Fears for Safety of Steamer

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 July 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday:--Signals of distress from the steamer Sumatra, which gave its location as between Borneo and Java, were picked up…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

On Fire German Steamer Thrilling Story of Rescue

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 30 July 1930 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.-- A thrilling story was unfolded when the Rangitata docked at Southampton with 10 passengers, including two women and two…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Collision Steamer Sinking LONDON

Northern Star · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 7

The Nerbudda wirelessed that she was sinking a hundred miles east of Gibraltar after a collision with a Spanish steamer. Salvage vessels are…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Steamer's Plight Result of Collision GIBRALTAR

Northern Star · Saturday 2 August 1930 · page 5

The steamer Nerbudda which came into collision with a Spanish vessel about 100 miles from here, now reports that it requires help. The stokehold…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Collision at Sea Steamer in Distress Water in Holds

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 August 1930 · page 5

GIBRALTAR, Thursday:--The steamer Nerbudda which came into collision with a Spanish vessel about 100 miles from here, now reports that…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Disabled Steamer Beached Gibraltar, Pridav

Northern Star · Monday 4 August 1930 · page 5

The steamer Nerbudaa has been beached at Adra and will be temporalily repaired before proceeding to Gibraltar…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Steamer Patched Up Gibralter

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 August 1930 · page 5

The steamer Nerbudda which was beached following a collision with a Spanish vessel has now been patched up and all pumps are working…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

All Pumps Working Damaged Steamer Patched Up

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 August 1930 · page 3

GIBRALTAR, Sunday.--The steamer Nerbudda, which was beached following a collision with a Spanish vessel, has now been patched up and all…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Japanese Steamer Shelled Tokio

Northern Star · Thursday 7 August 1930 · page 5

Friction between the Kamchatka fisheries and the Soviet continues and the situation is more serious. A Japanese steamer reports that when…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Collision at Sea Steamer Cut in Half

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 August 1930 · page 3

COPENHAGEN, Tuesday. -- The American steamer Chickasaw collided with the Swedish steamer Fremean, cutting her in half. The fore part…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Steamer Battered Terrific Cyclone Officer Lost Overboard Five Seamen Injured

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday:--A terrific three-day battle with a cyclone, in which the steamer Tainus lost its first officer overboard and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wreck Recalled Captain Foster's Death LONDON

Northern Star · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 5

The death is announced of Captain Cecil Foster, hero of the sinking of the Trevessa in June, 1923. (The Hain Steamship Company's…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Wine Saloon Wrecked Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 6

Following on the ejeetion of a man from a wine saloon in Surry Hills yesterday afternoon about 20 youths wreeked the place last night. They…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →