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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
165 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 9
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Buffetted by heavy seas while on a voyage to the Barrier Reef for scientific research work, the Dunedin Harbor Board's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SHANGHAI, Monday:—A shocking bandit outrage was perpetrated last night 40 miles east of Tsitsihar on the Trans-Siberian railway. Bandits had unbolted the rails and the Trans-Siberian express, travelling at 50 miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most daring train outrages in Manchuria is just reported here from Harbin. A large force of bandits wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH, Wednesday:--Flying from Perth, a Moth plane crashed at P c[?]in, 3 12 miles from Bunbury. A passenger named Pecde, of Bunbury, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hearing a bell in the cabin indicating an SOS call, J. Sachell, the wireless operator of the steamer Deebank, which was homeward bound from New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A severe electric storm broke over Melbourne and suburbs this afternoon, causing much damage, but there was no loss of life. Terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Johnson (42), an aircraft inspector attached to the Civil Aviation Department at Mascot, narrowly escaped serious…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →REYKJABAK, Wednesday:--Six Germans launched a lifeboat to rescue the crew of a British trawler which had run aground. The lifeboat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday: -- Caught by the full force of a gale, the ketch Agnes was driven from her anchorage off Williamstown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy rain, accompanied by a windstorm, swept Melbourne today, when the wind reached a velocity of-55 miles an hour. Ninety…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Wednesday. -- A 70-mile-an-hour gale roared through Britain to-day, spreading over a great part of Northern Europe, where many deaths, from cold and much damage resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, Friday. -- The vessel seen off Aldsburgh, on the Suffolk coast, during yesterday's gale, was identified by wreckage, to be the coastal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday:--The vessel which was seen to sink off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, during yesterday's gale was to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty-four seamen were drowned in three shipwrecks during yesterday's heavy gales. A vessel was seen to sink off…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three seamen were drowned and 19 rescued early this morning when the fishing schooner, Ellen T. Marshall, was burned to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four bodies washed ashore at Norfolk appear to indicate the loss of the steamer Broomfleet, of 854 tons, with a crew of 13, during the same gale…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →London, Monday.--The steamer Exarch ran ashore at midnight on Saturday near Cape Flakoti, Cyprus. The captain committed suicide on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday:- Four bodies washed ashore at Norfolk appear to indicate the loss of the steamer Broomfelt (854 tons) with a crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The exodus has commenced. In constant streams Lismore residents are forsaking their own town to spend the holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday: — The steamer Exarch ran ashore at midnight on Saturday at Cape Plakoti, Cyprus. A wireless message announced that…
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