Steamer Ashore Emma Pyers Springs Leak
When a leak developed in the river steamer, Emma Pyers, while berthed with The Booyong, at the Municipal Wharf early yesterday morning,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931
258 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 13
Steamer Service Carries Food and Cream Aids Isolated Farmers
A service on Saturday appreciates by Bilambil, Duroby North Tumbulgum and Dulguigan farmers, who are cut off by road, was the trip of the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Two fishermen were drowned in Botany Bay this afternoon when a ketch over turned in a squall. The victims…
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A message from Fremantle says the position of the stranded Japanese steamer Chofuku Maru now seems hopeless. The engine room is flooded…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The Japanese steamer, Chofuku Maru, which went ashore near Fremantle, is in a hopeless position, and will probably be…
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A message from Fremantle says the stranded Japanese steamer Chofuku Maru has been definitely abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Mercy of Gale Schooner Buffeted Fishing Party's Ordeal Had to Eat Bait Gladstone (Queensland)
Wednesday:--Delayed by adverse winds, and then driven before a gale in mountainous seas for the greater part of three weeks…
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The steamer Port Hos, when leaving Kobe last night, collided in a snowstorm with the Kikusui Maru, bound for Shanghai. The Kikusui Maru sank…
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Thirty were drowned when the Chinese steamer Fooyuan struck a rock in the Kunlington rapids in the Yangtze gorges, floundering and blocking the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday:--The coastal steamer Beldowrie is ashore at Greenwell Point on the South Coast with a big hole in her starboard side. The…
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SHANGHAI, Wednesday:--Thirty persons were drowned when the Chinese steamer Fooyuan struck a rock at Kunlington rapid, in the Yangtze…
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The coastal steamer Belbowrie is ashore at Green-well Point on the South Coast with a big hole in her starboard side. The vessel was on her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Explosion at Factory Struck by Lightning Miraculous Escapes Melbourne
Struck by lightning during the height of a terrific thunderstorm portion of the premises at Deer Park occupied by Nobel…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--During argument between two members of the crew of the American steamer Sierra. Richard Maloney (26), oiler, was stab…
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A launch containing six men was washed on to the rocks at Port Stephens on Thursday night and smashed to pieces. Four of the occupants…
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A launch containing six men was washed on to the rocks at Port Stephens last night, and was smashed to pieces. Four of the occupants…
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Fifteen were drowned in a collision between two river steamers on the Danube during a storm. The water, rushing into the engine room and first…
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LONDON, Sunday:--The steamer Buteshire, bound from Sydney to Hull and London, ran ashore at Fairway chequer Shoal. A number of the crew…
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The steamer Buteshire, bound from Sydney to Hull and London, ran ashore on the Fairway Chequer shoal. A number of the crew got off. Tugs are…
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SYDNEY, Monday:--Ernest Sinclair Oldfield (24), assistant engineer, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having murdered…
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