Steamer Catches Fire London
A message from Cape May, New Jersey, states that the passenger liner Lonate caught fire a few miles from Delaware breakwater. All the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1925
144 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 8
Steamer Ablaze Sailing Full Steam Ahead. Vancouver
A report has been received from Cape May, New Jersey, that the steamer Lanape, plying between New York and Jacksonville, Florida, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Gutted Clan Mackay Afire. a Valuable Cargo London
The Clan Mackay is afire at Gravesend with a cargo of copra, cocoa beans, and jute. The fire broke out in the second hold. Fire floats and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burned Steamer Lenape Most of the Passengers Rescued. Vancouver
The passengers on the burned steamer Lenape, at Cape May U.S.A. who were rescued proceeded to their destinations by train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Sinks Only Three Survivors Feared Loss of Over 200 Lives HAVANA
The steamer Villes des Sayes, with more than 200 laborers aboard, bound for the Santiago de Cuba sugar cane fields, sank on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seeking the Wreck German Divers at Work London. November 21
The German divers made their first Attempt yesterday to locate the Ml off Star Point. H.M.S. Southdown, arrived over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cause of Submarine Wreck
The Admiralty announces that an analysis of a sample of paint from the bull of the liner Vidar is considered to establish the cause of the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike Ringleader Pot Ashore at Port Said. Fremantle
In an endeavor to prevent trouble, an Australian member of the crew of the steamer Ormuz, who was said to be a ringleader in an attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"FOR 17 More Pots" Fireman Goes Ashore and Holds Up Maheno Sydney
The steamer Maheno, which was timed to leave Sydney at noon for New Zealand, was held up by the absence of one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Human Wrecks. Brilliant Intellects that Failed
Mention of the unexepected characters domiciled at the Coast Hospital (Little Bay, Sydney), recalls the even more varied collection at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Power Station Wrecked Victoria Falls CAPETOWN
The Victoria Falls power station, situated 30 miles from Johannesburg, the largest power station in South Africa, was wrecked by an explosion,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion Power Plant Wrecked Fifty Thousand Damages Capetown. December 8
The Victoria Falls Power Station, situated at Vereenigen, 30 from Johannesburg—the largest power station in South Africa—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suez Canal Collision Steamer Batjan From Brisbane London
A message from Port Said says that the Dutch steamer Batjan, from Brisbane, has collided with an unknown steamer in the Gulf of Suez…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision at Sea One Steamer Sunk (Reuter Service) LONDON, December
A Port Said message state the Dutch [?] [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Narrowly Escape Wreckage
After having struck Buffalo Reef in Spencer Gulf, the steamer Quorna was placed in dock at Adelaide, to-day. There was a hole eight feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recent Steamer Collision Sydney
The inquiry into the recent collision between the steamers Suva and Chillagoe was opened by the Marine Court to-day, which investigated the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Adrift in Pacific
A Vancouver message states that the Standard Oil tanker, H. T. Harper, bound for San Francisco, from Sydney, is in trouble 2000 miles from San…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Explosion Munitions Depot Wrecked London, December 21
The Central News Stra[?]burg correspondent says that a m[?]tions de[?]ot at Meribach blew up with terriff[?] explosion this morning. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paris Express Wrecked at Noisylesec Paris, Dec. 22
The Basle to Paris express crashed into trucks at Noisylesee station. Three coaches telescoped. The flirt reports estimated fifty people were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yacht Wrecked. on North Head Sydney
With seas breaking over her, a 22-ton yacht was found wedged on the rocks at North Head at 4.30 this morning by the Signal Master at…
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