Steamer Afire Hold of Australian Cargo. Sydney
A message received in Sydney to-day by the Marine Underwriters' Association, from the steamer Paparon, stated that No. 3 hold was seriously…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
197 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 10
Polar Flight Capt. Wilkins Hard Luck His Third Plane Wrecked (Reuter Service)FAIRBANKS (Alaska), March 20
The last of the three aeroplanes in which Captain H. Wilkins, the Australian explorer, had planned to make his Polar Right, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HARBOR COLLlSION Tug and Ferry Steamer Sydney
A harbor collision which might have -had very serious consequences. occurred in Darling Harbor. at half past 7 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Ketch Messing. Native Treachery Feared Darwin
General opinion here is that disaster has overtaken the 33-ton ketch John Alce, which left here two mont[?]s ago for Thursday Island with two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hope Abandoned Crew of Northern Ketch Suggested Murder by Blacks Darwin
All hope of the return of the ketch, John Alice, which left here two months ago, has been abandoned. It is believed that the whole crew has…
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The Navigation Department to-day, proceeded against Captain W. J. Hume, master of the steamer Wear, which collided with the ferry steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lascar Stabbed Quarrel on Steamer Brisbane
As a result of a quarrel among the Lasears on the steamer City of Yokohama lying in Brisbane Rier, one of them was stabbed nine times with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Steamer Idle at Hobart Hobart
The waterside workers still refuse to unload the steamer Kanna which is lying idle in the harbor with a cargo of coal. Unless they change their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifty Drowned River Steamer Sinks Rio De Janerio March 24
Fifty passengers, including the captain and the first and second engineers of the Brazillan rive steamer Paes de Carvalho perished when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →River Steamer Sinks Passengers and Officers Perish Rio de JANEIRO
Eight passenger the captain and the first and second engineers on the Brazilian river steamer, pass de Carvalhe, Perished when the vessel sank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Conditions N.Z. Immigrant Steamer. Passenger's Allegations. Auckland
A woman passenger on the New Zealand steamer, Walmera, made sensational allegations concerning the treat[?] of passengers to-day. She said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S.O.S. Steamer in Bad Straits Mauretania to the Rescue (Reuter Service) New York, March 31
An S.O.S. was picked up on Wednesday from the British freighter Lalham, about 600 miles South-East of Halifax. She was then nearly on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Foundered Sydney Steamer Lost. Twenty-two of Crew Missing. Sydney
Information reached Sydney late last night that a small steel steamer, the Dorrigo, owned by J. Burke Ltd., of Sydney, had gone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death On Steamer Entering Sydney Heads Old North Coast Farmer Sydney
When Charles Hugh Fraser went on board the steamer Wollongbar to meet his father when the vessel arrived in Sydney, yesterday, from the North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dorrigo Wreck Brisbane
Double Island and Inskip Point Ligh[?]ouses reported this morning that there is not any trace of the [?] missing members of the crew of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dorrigo Wreck Those Who Mourn Brisbane
So far as can be gathered, 10 wives and 26 children are bereft of their bread-winners by the Dorrigo disaster. There now is little hope for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trade With Java. New Dutch Steamer, Lady Journalist Interviewed Sydney
Mrs. Hedda Weersina, a Dutch journalist, who arrived in Sydney to-day, on a visit, said it as an open secret that a Dutch shipping company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?]Orrigo Wreck No More Survivors Wreckage on the Beach Brisbane
When the body of John Lowe, boatswain of the wreaked steamer Dorrigo was found on the beach it was clad only in a singlet. There…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dorrigo Wreck. Sydney
A message from Tweed Heada [?] that a number of muchness [?] washed up at Shar[?] Bay [?] Kirran Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Men in a Boat Trip From China to Australia in a Sampan When Driven Ashore They Take to the Bush Extraordinary Story of Adventure and Hard Ship in the Far North
BRISBANE, Wednesday. Four men had an adventurous voyage in a sampan from china to Australia and were recently blown…
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