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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
189 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 10
SYDNEY, Wednesday:--An 18-months, voyage by the 150-ton schooner Isabel had a sensational ending this afternoon, when police and customs officials boarded the vessel at Watson's Bay. After a search, allegedly dutiable goods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday:- Police and customs officials to-day searched the Randwick home of Mrs. Weeks, wife of the owner of the schooenr Isabel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Thursday:- The Superintendent of Yarrabah Mission, near Cairns (Rev. W. McCullough) reported to the Mission…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Caught by a cyclonic blow while rounding Cape Graft-on, near Cairns, the 40-ton launch, Clam, of the Yarrambah Mission, was wrecked on a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Monday:--A path about two miles long and a quarter of a mile wide was swept through the bush at Moggill, Brisbane Valley, by a tornado last night. Buildings were blown over, crops and fences flattened, telephone wires,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday morning, whilst Miss Muriel Goldman, a visitor, was swimming in the Back Channel at Tweed Heads she became exhausted in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last week the North Coast Co's steamer Maianbar was placed in the Clarence River trade as a relief ship for a few trips. Not many years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CAPE TOWN, Tuesday--The Japanese steamer Paris Maru, of 7,000 tons, which yesterday struck a rock outside Port Elizabeth, sank this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another trans-Siberian express has been wrecked, making the third within three months. This time it is feared that the outrage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHANGHAI, Thursday:- A terrible disaster is reported from Hankow involving the death of at least 150 Chinese passengers of the Chinese steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KALGOORLIE, Tuesday:- Scenes of violence were witnessed last night by a host of excited spectators at Kalgoorlie and Boulder when, as a sequel to the death of George Jordan in a Kalgoorlie hospital yesterday afternoon from a fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fierce northerly gale swept Britain to-day, and was especially violent in the Channel and the North Sea. Two of the cross-Channel sailings between…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Specially reduced fares for the steamer trip from Byron Bay to Sydney are announced by the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Limited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday Startling developments resulted from the police investigation into the McIntyre River tragedy on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday, February 17, the s.s. Ccbaki will make her inaugural trip from Brisbane to the Tweed and Richmond Rivers on the new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The police believe that the two feet washed ashore at Collaroy during the week-end were taken from a body…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the schooner Isabel entered Sydney Harbour some weeks ago, after an adventurous voyage from England, Customs officers and detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the 45 years of the firm's life as steamboat proprietors, not a trip was missed surely a great record. With service as its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday. The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cobaki made her first appearance in the port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The desperate fight to save the tug Unique, which founded off Shoalhaven Bight on Sunday afternoon, was described by…
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