Mystery 'Plane and Steamer Alleged Shell Poachers
RABAUL, Monday:- A report by William Baker, a creditable planter in the Witu Islands, situated 200 miles west of Rabaul,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
189 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 10
Fishing Boat Founders Crew's Escape Picked Up by Passing Steamer
SYDNEY, Monday:- When their sea-net fishing boat, an old tug named the Unique, of 58 tons, foundered seven miles off the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday:- The Church Missionary Society received a wireless from the Rev. H. Warren, leader of the Arnhem Land expedition,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Salvage Feat Recalled. Wreck of the Egypt
Bullion worth £1,000,000 went to the bottom of the sea when the liner Egypt sank in the Bay of Biscay in 1923, and Lloyd's paid more than…
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Sydney, Friday. The well-known collier Deliba went ashore during a dense fog on Pelican Point near North Head this morning. Salvage…
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DARWIN, Thursday:-The Caledon Bay aboriginals are graphically portrayed in a new role--that of succourers of shipwrecked…
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SYDNEY, Friday:--The collier Bealiba went ashore at Pelican Point, about 14 miles south of Norah Head lighthouse, in a thick fog early this…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:- Hope of salvaging the collier, Bealiba, which went ashore near the North Head is said to have been abandoned and she is…
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CAIRNS, Wednesday:-- Much concern is felt for the safety of the owner of the launch Mossman (W. Millard), together with Carl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →250 Dead; 1,000 Injured Terrific Blast Explosion of Dynamite Wrecks Seaport Central American Disaster
NEW YORK, Wednesday. — Two hundred and fifty persons were killed and 1,000 injured as the result of a dynamite explosion at the port of La Libertad, in the Republic of Salvador (Central America), according to…
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COOKTOWN, Thursday. — Captain Kono, who was in charge of the lugger Mildred, which foundered off Cape Tribulation during the recent cyclone, reached here on the launch Myola late this evening. Captain…
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The roof of the Monmouthshire Mental Hosuital at Abergavenny was nearly wreeked by a patient, who climbed up a water-spout and ran…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:—Nearly 500 cases of flathead and bream, together with more than £1000 worth of goods, were lost when the…
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Efforts to-day to refloat the steamer Poonbah, which went aground in the Burnett River, have failed. Tractors supplied by the…
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Ned Pitt, whose sister and daughter were drowned when the lugger Mildred foundered, returned to Cairns in the launch Oracle to-day, bringing…
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Further attempts to refloat the Poonbah to-day failed, and no further endeavours will be made for the present. There is a chance of the vessel…
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The British salvage tug returned here to-day after fruitless attempts to pull off the Soviet motorship Kuznetzlessou, which…
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HONG KONG, Thursday:--British salvage tugs returned to here after a fruitless attempt to pull off the Soviet motor ship Kuznetzlesson,…
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VANCOUVER, Thursday :— The Great Pan-American Airways plane San Jose left Santiago (Chile) en, route to Buenos Aires at 7 o'clock on the morning of July 16, 1932, and vanished until to–day. For days after the plane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cabs Wrecked New York Strikers Defy Police New York
Ignoring the police edict against violence, the striking taxi-cab drivers to-night continued attacks on cabs still operating. They invaded the Times…
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