Coastal Steamer Ashore
In thick, driving rain, with a fresh southerly blowing, the steamer Merimbula went ashore at 1 a.m. on Tuesday at Abraham's Bosom, ten miles…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
The Commonwealth Steamer Purchase
THE Federal Government has sold the Commonwealth Line of Steamers, which cost between seven and eight millions of money (Australian…
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The Dutch steamer Houtman is aground in Freeman’s Channel, Moreton Bay, Queensland. Two tugs have gone to her assistance…
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Draldsi Guiseppe, the sole survivor of the White Bay wreck stated to-day that some of his mates were injured by flying wood blocks, but they all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News Vessel Wrecked No Trace of the Crew SYDNEY
No, bodies have yet been washed ashore from the wrecked vessel Isabella de Fraine, which capsized at Hokianga…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Barwon Declared Black
The steamer Barwon now at Cairns has been declared black by the local branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Cables Steamer on Fire At Sea LONDON
The owners of the steamer “Castle Moon” which is enroute from Blyth to Adelaide have received a wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News Coastal Steamer Sinks Crew Saved Sydney
The coastal steamer Kallawatta sprang a leak off Newport early this morning and sank within thirty minutes. All the crew were saved…
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A message from Melbourne states that the steamer Ulimaroa, which was to have left for New Zealand at noon was held up owing to its inability…
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The British steamer Vestris (10,000 tons) foundered in the Atlantic on Monday afternoon. There were 339 people aboard. She was bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Swamped Sixteen Men Drowned LONDON
The lifeboat at Rye, Sussex, was swamped when returning from an attempt to succour a Latavian steamer and sixteen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Cable News the Vestris Wreck
Witnesses at the general inquiry into the disaster. said the Vestris had a list on her previous voyage. ANOTHER AIR RECORD…
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