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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
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A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. T. W. Tinson, T. A. Frater, G. Raphael, Eric Scharer, G. Dutton and P. M. Swanson was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Monday:-Vessels in Bass Strait were storm-tossed to-day. The schooner Doepel, laden with Tasmanian timber, was buffeted for hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday:--The Japanese steamer Shanai Maru, which was drifting. off Woodlark Island owing to the propeller shaft being broken, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday:--The still burning hull of the French liner Atlantique, carried by wind and current, drifted slowly along the English Channel to-day. She appeared through the met a few miles off Portland Bill this morning and crowds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by a cyclonic wind that attained a velocity of 100 miles an hour, the steamer Maunganui experienced an exceedingly rougli passage from San…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday:--It is now suggested that aeroplanes flying over the mountainous ands wooded country, on routes to Athens, also shipping in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mail steamer "Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft" (15,000 tons), was destroyed by fire on November 14. She was lying at Sumatra Quay, Amsterdam, with all her ports, doors, and windows open, to let out poisonous gas used in killing the rats in her when fire broke out and spread very rapidly. In spite of the efforts of the Fire brigade the vessel was gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The full force of the disturbances have, apparently, been visited upon Eungella. Last Wednesday a fierce 60 mile-an-hour gale blew for nearly an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday:- A tornado wrecked Narrabri West locomotive shed at noon on Sunday causing damage estimated at £4,000. The tornado…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PERIN. Monday:- The steamer Taronga arrived on fire. She was beached to prevent capsizing and finally abandoned after discharging 50 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While running (from Murvillumbah to Tweed Heads on Tuesday, Messrs. Skinner, Lowes and Co.'s steamer Mibbin ran aground oil a sandbank at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday:-The Shinai Maru, in tow of the Tateishi Maru, arrived in Sydney to-day. The Shinai Maru broke her tail shaft near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All the front portion of a grocer's shop in Mudgee-road, Cullen Bullen, near Portland, was wrecked about 3 a.m. yesterday by an explosion of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. - Although no further news has been received of the schooner Huia, which left Melbourne for Sydney with explpsives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.- The tug Reston went ashore on the breakwater at the Bellinger River to-day. Efforts to move her failed and she has been holed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner Huia, which reached Sydney from Melbourne to-day, after a voyage lasting ten days, encountered high seas and headwinds and travelled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Friday.--With two blades of the propeller stripped, the British freighter Tolftwood is steaming slowly for Albany, where she is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stranded on the Tweed bar when attempting to cross out at, mid-day yesterday, the N.C.S.N. Company's steamship Nambucca was floated off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carrying a big cargo, principally sugar from Condong mill, the North Coast Shipping Company's trading vessel Nambucca…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When some suburban residents at Auckland, New Zealand, returned after the holidays they found the house in disorder, indicating that it had…
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