Steamer on Fire Total Loss Feared. Perth
The Western Australian Government steamer Kwinana is on fire with the flames beyond control. The fire broke out in the coal…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921
145 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 8
Doomed Steamer. Bunkers on Fire. Decks Fall In. Perth
The West Australian Government steamer Kwinana arrived at Carnarvon, on the north-west coast at daylight on Monday with the bunkers on fire. She…
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A fire broke out early on Saturday morning on the steamer Junee. The flames originated in the engineer's store room and quickly extended over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatalities and Accidents Young Man Drowned. Father Swims Ashore. Sydney
Frederick Adam Fletcher, aged 60, and this son, Prederick Charles, left Kurnell for Sandringham in a rowing boat, but the boat capsized. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mistook the Port Narrow Escape From Wreck Signals Not Seen. Adelaide
Particulars are to [?] of the miraculous escape from disnstor of the French barque, Eagene Schnelder. When the vessul was leading for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spanish Steamer Wrecked. Porty Survivors Rescued. London
Reuter's Madrid correspondent reports that the Spanish steamer Santa Isabel has become a total wreck, on the coast at Gills Garcia, near the island of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Steamer. Adelaide
A few hours before the steamer Walton Hall was booked to leave Port Adelaide for South Africa with a cargo of flour, a fire was discovered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Vessel Passed. Callousness Alleged. London
It is alleged that the Spanish steamer Friana passed the Santa Isabel, which was wrecked off the coast of Villagarcia (Northern Spain), and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage Syd[?]
The Navigation Dep[?] received a message from the [?] Eden stating that portion of a [?] [?] had been fou[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Under Arrest Writ for £12,000
A write for £12,000 for salvage has been nailed to one of the masts of the American schooner Inca, now lying off Long Nose Point, Balmain, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Case of Smallpox Steamer Ventura Quarantined. Sydney
Owing to there being a mild case of smallpox on board the American mail steamer Ventura which arrived to-day from San Francisco was sent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SMALLPOX Case on Frisco Steamer Ventura in Quarantine. Sydney
Owing to a case of smallpox on board, the American m[?] Ventura was sent into quarantine on arrival in Sydney from San Francisco this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sunken Submarine. Wreckage Found. London
It is authoritatively stated that wreckage has been found which is unsubmarine. An inquiry is being held…
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Wet weather and the absence of the needful is not conducive to the best of spirits, and Mr. Oldboy was certainly feeling a little grumpy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schooner Wrecked Seven Lives Lost. Wellington (N.z.), Jan. 31
Seven men are believed to have been drawa[?]d in the wreck of the schooner O[?]aka, which was bri[?] a cargo from Blenh[?]lm when she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Hands Lost. Schooner Omaka Wrecked. Wellington (N.z.)
The auxiliary schooner Omaka, chaff-laden, from Blenheim, has been wrecked off the Wellington Heads. All hands were lost…
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Wet weather and the absence of the needful is not conducive to the best of spirits, and Mr. Oldboy was certainly feeling a little grumpy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stranded Steamer. £500 Salvage Awarded. Sydney
In the High Court of Australia the Chief Justice delivered his reserved judgment in the claim of the officers and crew of the steamer Dilkera for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Bombs Damage at Rio de Janlero Office Wrecked Rio De Janiero
Two bombs exploded at the office of the Minister for the Interior. The interior and outside of the place was considerably damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commonwealth Steamer. Completed by August. London
Vickers, Ltd., will launch the Moreton Bay, the Commonwealth's first 22,500 ton vessel, on April 23. Mr. Larkin (manager in London for the…
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