Schooner Capsizes Crew of Eight Drowned Auckland (N.z.)
The schooner isabella de Fraine, bound from Onehunga to Hokianga, capsized on the Hokianga bar on Saturday. The vessel carried a crew of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
164 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 9
Fire on Steamer Sydney
A fire broke out this afternoon on the steamer Birrins, which is at anchor off Spectacle Island. The vessel is one of the Commonwealth line's wooden ships. At…
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A cable message from Auckland states that the capsized schooner Isabella de Fraine is floating off the coast, a menace to navigation. The…
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A 22 ft. launch, containing two professional fishermen Theon Ivau, off and Rudolph Hanehan, was wreaked at South Head last night…
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The steamer Biliola, lying in the harbour, was the scene of another fire early this morning, but brigades succeeded in extinguishing the flames…
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It is hoped that the steamer Uralla will be refloated form Stockton Beach shortly. Daring the week-end the wreck moved 12 feet towards the…
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The auxiliary ketch Jan is reported wrecked at the Lau Group, Fiji. The Government yacht Pioneer has been chartered to proceed to the wreck for…
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The auxiliary ketch Jan is reported wrecked on Lau group, Fiji. The Government yacht Pioneer was chartered to proceed upon salvage…
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The steamer Katuna arrived from East Africa to-day and left a few hours later to aid the disabled steamer City of Yokohama. which is [?] in mid-ocean. The Katunu…
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A wrecked aeroplane, believed to be that of Nungesser and Coli, has been found in the North Sea in the vicinity of the west coast of Denmark. A…
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An extraordinary ovation from the passengers greeted the Russian icebreaker when she arrived alongside the steamer Monte Cervantes, which, with…
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A wireless message from the steamer Minnewaska states that Captain Courtney has been rescued…
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The extent of the engine and boiler trouble on the steamer City of Yokohama, which was disabled about 500 miles from Colombo, is rather more…
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The steamer Samos rescued the Polish airmen, Idzikowski and Kubala, who were attempting to fly from Paris to New York non-stop, after they…
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The mission steamer John Williams, which arrived at Sydney to-day, ran over a sunken coral reef in Gilbert Islands, and was beached for repairs…
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A wireless message advises that the Steamer Valpra[?], bound for Nova Scotia, has picked up Captain Courtney's wrecked aeroplane…
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Further startling evidence of the desecration of the tombs of the Manchu Royal family outside Peking was made by the discovery of 36…
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The steamer W. S. M'Kenney, which was thought to have been lost in a storm off the coast off California, arrived here in a badly battered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nanking Accident British Consul Goes Ashore Shanghai
As a result of the satisfactory settlement of the Nanking incident of March, 1927, the British Consul, Mr. W. M. Hewlett, is proceeding to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Plane Crash at Coonabarabran Wrecked Machine Burnt COONABARABRAN
MR. JAMES SINCLAIR, a local resident, was seriously injured in a sensational airplane crash on the local racecourse yesterday…
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