Steamer Launched. SYDNEY
The steamer Dundula was launched at Cockatoo Island this afternoon, in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919
128 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 7
Struck by Lightning. Airship and Crew Lost. Wreckage Falls Into Sea. London
It is reported that an airship mine sweeper, carrying a crew of 12, off the Norfolk coast was stock by lightning. A great flare was seen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Ship Wrecked. Sruck by Lightning. No Sign of the Crew. LONDON
Lord Cromer reports that an airship mine sweeper, carrying twelve, when off the Norfolk coast was struck by lightning. A great flare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liverpool Strike. Steamer Sailings Suspended. London
Owing to the dockers' strike in Liverpool sailings of steamers have been suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Missing. Disappeared on July 17. SYDNEY
The steamer Llwellyn, belonging to the Queensland Government, has been missing since July 17. She left Rock-hampton on July 16, with foodstuff for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage Discovered. a Launch's Find. Believed to be the Missing Steamer Llewellyn. BRISBANE
A quantity of wreckage, believed to be from the missing steamer Llewellyn, has been discovered by the launch Florant, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Steamer. Men Refuse Request. Sydney
A meeting of members of the Sydney branch of the Federated Firemen and Seamen's Union of Australia, refused the request that a crew be found to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Workmen's Compensation. the Foundered Tuggerah. Three Claims Consented to in Full. SYDNEY
Three claims of £500, under the Workmen's Compensation Act, were before the District Court to-day in connection with the foundering of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of the Tuggerah. Compensation Claimed. Sydney
Three claims of £500 each, under the Workmen's Compensation Act, were before the District Court to-day in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Aground. Sydney
The steamer Arapawa is now aground on the Waitara bar. New Zealand. So far all efforts to float her have been unsuccessful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hotels Wrecked. Soldiers Riot in West Australia. Government Close All Goldflelds Hotels. PERTH
Soldiers wrecked the foreign hotels at Boulder, West Australia, last night. A Government proclamation was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Badly Smashed. Steamer Returns to Port. Adelaide
The steamer Alexander Woermann returned to Adelaide to-day, breaking up rapidly. A considerable quantity of cargo was destroyed by salt water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck at Gabo. Melbourne
News has been received from the Telegraph Department that the steamer Rostrevor, 384. tons, went ashore between Cape Everard and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Rostrevor. Survivors' Trying Time
Footsore, weary, and starving after their Ion? tramp of more than 20 miles from Pearl Point, Victoria, Captain W. H. Waterson and the 14…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rioting at Fermoy. Crowd Wrecks Shops. Soldiers As Ringleaders. London
A party of soldiers, led by men of the Shropshire Regiment, got out of hand to-day, and wrecked shops in Fermoy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hurricane in Florida. Key West Wrecked. Vancouver
At Key West 300 houses have been destroyed by a hurricane. The harbor is filled with wreeked and disabled vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Salving Ships by Magnet. Novel Methods of Retrieving Wrecks
The shortage of shipping has given an immense impetus to salvage enterprise, which will doubtless result in the raising and refloating of a very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Troopship Ashore. London
A White Star steamer, being used as a troopship went ashore on the Orkneys last night in a gale. Two thousand troops from Russia are reported to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterside Strike. Steamer Service Crippled. San Francisco
A strike of longshoremen is crippling the steamer service, and a number of sallings have been [?]celled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wrecked Parsova. Dispute on the Bridge. Bodies Recovered. Adelaide
The survivors of the wrecked steamer Parcora arrived in Adelaide yesterday. They say that the vessel struck the rocks at 4 o'clock on Thursday…
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