Race for Port Fire on Steamer Wellington (N.z.)
While off Akaroa light early this morning a fire broke out on the steamer Opihi and while the crew worked frantically to subdue the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931
258 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 13
Laboratory Wrecked Terrific Explosion, Then Fire
Terrific explosions wrecked a laboratory of the Metropolitan Chemical Company at Leichhardt and a fire which followed caused severe…
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WHEN the chronicles of present day events come to be written, if Mr. Lang is considered worthy of anything more merciful…
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HONGKONG, Friday The P. and O. liner Rajaputana, arrived from Shanghai with 114 passengers and the crew of the steamer Hwahyang, which…
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The P. and O. liner Rajaputana arrived from Shanghai with 114 passengers and the crew of the steamer Hwahyang which foundered in a fog…
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A wireless message received from the A.U.S.N. steamer Maranoa this morning advised that she was bringing back to Brisbane three men who…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.--The steamer Progress drifted on to rocks in Ohira Bay, Cook's Strait (N.Z.) last night and became a total wreck…
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AUCKLAND, Friday.--The sterner Progress drifted on to the rocks on Ohira Bay Straits last night and became a total wreck. Three men are…
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SYDNEY, Friday:--At the Central Criminal Court to-day, the trial was commenced of Ernest Oldfield (26). [?]…
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The steamer Progress drifted on to the rocks in Ohira Bay (Cook Strait) last night and became a total wreck. Three men are…
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The steamer Eleanor Boling which was used by Commander Byrd in his Antarctic expedition was reported overdue to-day from Barbados. It…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday -- The steamer Eleanor Boling, which was used by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, is reported as being a week overdue at…
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The steamer Eleanor Boiling which, was yesterday reported as overdue from the Barbadoes arrived here…
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PERTH, Saturday:--A northwest gale, which raged over Perth from dusk last night till daylight, this morning, caused considerable…
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The Dairen Maru returning to Kamchatka (Hakodate) wirelessed that she was in distress off the shore of the Kuriles. Bad weather was reported…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- A Chinese member of the crew of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk was taken off the steamer at Eden yesterday and…
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LONDON, Sunday.-- The salvage steamer, Reclaimer, left Southerland under sealed orders, with a picked crew. The owners refuse to divulge…
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Despite the pilot's frantic efforts when in difficulties over Lough Neagh all R.A.F. Horsley bomber fell on and splintered the only fisl[?]ng boat in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early Days on the Richmond Wrecks and Tragedies. Old Ships and Their Skippers. (Doing the sixth instalment of the late Jas. Ainsworth's narrative)
Nc list of sea tragedies connected with the curly days of the Richmond, no matter how carefully, can compiled, can ever be regarded as complete, for the reason…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warning Against Communism Archbishop Kelly Catholics Shouldn't Shipwreck Their Faith "Reds" Openly Atheistic
SYDNEY, Monday:--A pastoral address, issued by the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Kelly), and which was read in every Roman Catholic…
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