Steamer Adrift Attempts at Rescue Sydney
According to a message received in Brisbane, a Japanese steamer is drifting near Woodlark Island, on the South Coast of Papua, with a broken…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933
20 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers
Ketch Wrecked Tragedy of the Islands Thursday Island
News reached Thursday Island yesterday that the ketch, "Tallie," was wrecked on Snake Reef, while engaged in obtaining trochus shell…
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The whole front of a grocer's shop at Cullen Bullen was wrecked early one Saturday morning by the explosion of 40 pluge of gelignite. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables and Telegrams Stolen Warship Showing Fight To Government Steamer The Hague
The Zeven Provincion, the stolen warship, in the hands of the mutineers is still uncaptured. It was reported us speeding along…
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The Murwillumbah tug boat, the Terranora, which went ashore on the northern breakwater just inside Crossing: at Tweed Heads yesterday…
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The master of a Japanese vessel of 86 tons, which was found in the vicinity of Thursday Island recently, has been fined £10 at Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Severe 'Quake In Japan 2000 Homes Wrecked Tokio
A severe earthquake, with the centre 265 miles to the north, did considerable damage at Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate. Prefectures principally…
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No further tidings have been received from the disabled Japanese steamer, Kensen Maru. Everything now hinges on whether the vessel can be kept afloat…
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A message reached Sydney early this morning to the effect that the master of the Japanese steamer, Hide Maru, had, late last night, rescued 13…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane Wrecked But Passengers Unhurt Alice Springs
A plane, piloted by D. H. Brown, and carrying P. Bassett, of Melbourne, as a passenger, was badly damaged while landing here yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is It the Waratah ? Wreck off Natal Coast Capetown
An unknown wreck has been discovered off the coast of Natal. It is believed in Durban to be the long-lost Waratah, missing since 1900, last heard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steam Pipe Bursts. on German Steamer
The engineer and fireman of the German cargo ship, Mosel, were seriously scalded when the vessel was between Sydney and Brisbane, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ketch Tonka Wreck Reported Crew in Dire Straits Brisbane
News' reached Mackay (Qld.) last night of the wreck of the ketch, Tonka, at Connor Island. Three members of the crew were standing by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jumped Overboard? Disappeared from Steamer. Letter to Landlady. Sydney
In connection with the disappearance of a man named Michael Johnson, aged 69 years, a commercial traveller, from the steamer Hunter…
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Early this morning the body of Ernest Bates, who, with Leslie Clements, spent yesterday fishing at Port Stephens, was washed up from the…
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When a fishing boat was enveloped by a big wave at Tamarama Bay, near Bondi, to-day, John Clunic, aged 32 years, was carried…
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Tragedy overtook a fishing party comprising seven men yesterday, when four of their number were drowned after their launch had been…
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During a terrific gale which swept Sydney fast night, numbers of steamers on the harbour sent out calls for assistance. Fortunately no mishaps…
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Sixty. Chinese are believed to have been drowned yesterday, when a small Chinese steamer, proceeding to Hankow along the Yangtse River, crashed…
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The steamer, "Exarch," ran ashore at midnight on Saturday, near Cape Plakoti, Cyprus. The captain committed suicide on…
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