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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
164 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 9
The steamship Robert E. Lee, running from Boston to New York with 150 passengers aboard, caught on the jagged rocks off Plymouth. The coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Montoro has been held up owing to trouble with the stewards, who refused to sign on this afternoon. The men demand that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Edison Duorte, aged 29 years, sailor. was killed, and Jose Vega, aged 32 years, seriously injured on board the steamer Tuscaloosa, lying at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exactly 24 hours after he had confidently set out to break the world's speed record, Flight-Lieutenant Kinkead's body was recovered from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exactly 24 hours after he had confidently set out to break te world's sped record, Flight-Lieutenant Kinkead's body was recovered from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first mail utilising aeroplanes to link up with steamers on both sides of the Atlantic, arrived to-day, 14 days from Buenos Aries. By all sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is estimated that between 300 to 500 lives have been lost as a result of surging floods following a break in San Francis Quito Canyou, 40 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Dutch unsinkable lifeboat, named the Schuttvaer, 21 feet long, which is the result of 18 years' experimental work, left Westminster Bridge for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Concern in the mystery flight is revived by a report that from a searching plane a wrecked plane and two bodies were seen in Canada on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A later Bangor message states that detectives traced the rumor of finding Hinchcliffe's plane to be a "joke" by a woodsman."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 1 a.m. yesterday the Merimbula went on the rocks at Beecroft Head, 100 miles below Sydney. The passengers and crew were got safely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He American ship, Steelmaker, from Noumea to Honolulu, was wrecked on the Mitchell Reef in the Ellice group yesterday. The crew is not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Iron Chief went ashore on Mermald Reef, off Crowdy Head, whilst proceeding from Port stevens to Coff's Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A small coastal boat. The Gosford went ashore in the heavy fog this morning on Ettalong beach, Brisbane Water, but is in a safe position, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During a heavy fog at Ettalong Beach this morning the small coastal steamer, Gosford, went ashore. The vessel is in a perfectly safe position,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is a suggestion that the Government should charter a steamer to take New Zealand residents to America to witness the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christmas Brown, aged 22 years, an Englishman, escaped from the steamer Barradale at Port Melbourne to-day. Brown was being deported to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At West Plains (Missouri), 35 persons were killed and 40 injured, 16 of them seriously, as the result of an explosion which wrecked and set on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire broke out early this morning in the coal bunkers of the steamer Zealandia, which is held up on account of a dispute with the cooks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Imperial Ex-Service Association of Australia, and ex. A.I.F. men have now completed arrangements for a pilgrimage to the battlefields and…
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