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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
177 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 9
VANCOUVER, Wednesday:--A bomb exploded in the Post Office at Easton, Pennsylvania, killing two, wounding others and wrecking the building. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"We have done that which was our duty to do." This simple epitaph was read by widows and orphans, mothers, and other relatives of 17…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three men, one of whom was Kingsford Smith's brother, had a remarkable escape from death to-day when an aeroplane in which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The report of two white women held by the aborigines of Arnhein Land does not cause surprise to anyone knowing the North (writes S…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Pennsalvania message states the widespread search for the two intrepid women fliers ended to-day by the finding of their bodies crushed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Benjamin Boyd arrived in Melbourne on June 15, 1842. He had come in the yacht named the Wanderer. She had left Plymouth on December 23, 1841,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although the ways of The sen are becoming, safer year by year, owing to the increased dependability or ships' engines and more effective…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK, Thursday:--A widespread search for two intrepid women flyers ended to-day with the finding of their bodies, crushed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday:--A fatal case of smallpox was reported from the steamer City of Victoria which has been quarantined in Moreton Bay. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday:--The Marine Court to-day held an inquiry into the stranding of the steamer Newton Elm on the North Coast recently. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Tuesday:--Examination of the crew of the steamer Victoria City showed that the third officer was suffering smallpox. He was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUNKIRK, Wednesday:--The steamer Ville de Verdun, from Noumea, sank the tug Trapu, in a quayside collision and then Collided with the Skjold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Piracy, murder and violence culminating in the deaths of three Chinese passengers and the wounding of a score of others, marked the 20 hour voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday:--Although all the members of the crew of the steamer Quorna, except ope fireman, withdrew their notices late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--The Victorian Seamen's Union yesterday refused to supply men for the Manunda. A man proposed to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday:--A motor li[?] oat capable of righting itself in four seconds if holed and capsized was formally handed over to the Roval…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday--Anxiety is felt for the small coastal steamer Bopple which left Townsville on January 14 in light trim for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the height of the cyclonic blow at Townsville between three and five o'clock on Tuesday morning, the Federal liner Surrey broke her forward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MARYBOROUGH, Friday:--The small coastal steamer Bopple, which left Townsville on January 14 for Brisbane and ran into the tail-end of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the photograph is shown the steel tube which is being constructed by an American firm who intend to search the wreck of the Lusitania for valuables. The liner, it will be remembered, was sunk off the south coast of Ireland by a German submarine in 1915. The steel tube was…
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