Tug and Steamer Still Aground
CAIRNS, Sunday:- The tug J. A. Boyd and the small coastal steamer Ready were still aground on a sand bank north of Cooktown on Saturday…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
194 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 10
Tug and Steamer Aground CAIRNS
The tug, J. A. Boyd, and the small coastal steamer, Ready, were still aground on a sandbank north of Cooktown, on Saturday morning when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Carbide Gas Explosion Wrecks Shed and Injures Man and Wife
An explosion of carbide gas, so severe that it blew the sides out of a packing shed and caused serious injury to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Might Have Collapsed Wrecked Drain Left Foundations in Mid-air NEWCASTLE
A carpenter found a yawning crater imperilling the foundation of the West End branch of the Commonwealth Bank, when he removed a floorboard to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unsuccessful Search for Wreck
SYDNEY, Tuesday:--The ketch Viking Queen returned to Eden to-day after a further unsuccessful search for the wreck of the steamer Cumberland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Steamer Will Hot Be Broken Up
MELBOURNE, Monday:-- The 81-year-old steamer Edina, the oldest passenger shin in the world will not be broken up, as was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Afire Air Raids in Spain
VALENCIA, Tuesday:--Air raids set fire to the British steamer Stanland while landing cargo. There were no casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ketch Driven Ashore Murwillumbah
After a battle with high seas the 15-ton auxiliary ketch "Charea," with Roy Edwards and James Miller (Sydney) aboard, grounded on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ketch, with Two Aboard, Aground on Fingal Beach
After a perilous battle with high seas, the 15-ton auxiliary ketch, "Charea," with Messrs. Roy Edwards and James Miller, of Sydney, aboard, grounded on the beach south of Fingal Headland about midnight on Thursday. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ketch Aground on Fingal Beach
A party of helpers trying to lift the 15-ton ketch Charea on to its keel after the vessel ran aground south of Fingal Headland. The boat was propped up, so as to minimise the force of the breakers. James Miller and Roy Edwards, who were aboard the ketch, spent many anxious moments as she drifted for several hours before heading shorewards early on Friday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Ketch Has Not Been Refloated
The 15-ton ketch, Charca, which was driven ashore on the beach south of Fingal Headland during the latter part of last week, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Erosion at Stradbr0ke Jetty Wrecked at Amity
BRISBANE, Monday:--Huge seas whipped up by a westerly gale demolished a 100-foot jetty at Amity, in the northern part of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cast Ashore On Moreton Island Man and Son Rescued
BRISBANE, Wednesday: -- After being cast ashore on Moreton Island early on Tuesday morning and being given…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Treasure Hunt Begins Sand Removed From £1,000,000 Wreck
Equipped with 130 steel scoops, the Karimata--world's largest tindredger--is shortly to leave for Terschelling, near the Zuider…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Winter Draw at Fingal Stranded Ketch Brings Tourists
Fingal, its existence mainly dependent upon tourists, is experiencing an unexpected winter popularity as the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Pirated Destroyer Goes to Aid
HONG KONG, Sunday:-- The British destroyer Delight has gone from Tsingtao to the assistance of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →60 Die in Rail Wreck KINGSTON, Jamaica
Sixty were killed and 72 injured in a railway wreck. A locomotive telescoped into the passenger coaches of a train which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Under Fire From Chinese Pirates SHANGHAI
Joseph Thompson and his wife, New Zealanders who are members of the China Inland Mission, were under fire when pirates in junks attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Disappears From Steamer Brisbane
Last seen on deck at 10 o'clock last night, Martin Bourke (65), formerly employed by the N.S.W. Government printing office, disappeared from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage of Air Liner Found Mexico City
A searching plane sighted the wreckage of the airliner belonging to the Mexican Aviation Company, which was lost, with eight passengers…
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