Wrecked Coaches on Fire Three Passengers Dead
Huge bonfires in the wrecked conches lighted the scene, and enabled parties of doctors and nurses to carry out rescue work in the dense fog and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929
273 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 14
Steamer Adrift Crew's Serious Plight Lives on Wheat London
The Norwegian steamer, Olesarvold, which does not carry wireless, was towed 350 miles to Aberdeen after drifting helplessly in the Atlantic for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lifeboat Crew Drowned Amsterdam
A Dutch steam lifeboat capsized in mountainous seas today. The whole crew of eight was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Steamer Wrecked Many Lives Lost. SHANGHAI
Later reports of the sinking of the steamer Hsin Wah outside the Hongkong harbor-reveal that, although the vessel was equipped with wireless,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Steamer Wrecked Many Lives Lost Rough Seas Hamper Rescue Work No Operator to Work Wireless Shanghai
Later report of the sinking of the steamer Hsia Wah outside the Hong Kong harbor reveal that, although the vessel was equipped with wireless,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leaking Badly Coastal Steamer's Plight Sydney
The steamer, Allyniver, a well known coaster, reached Broken Bay this morning leaking badly, and her paster Cautain Redgrove took her to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crashing 'Plane Decapitates Windsor Farmer. Death From Sky While Working in His Field Son Horrified Witness Victim Saw His Peril Too Late Peril of Blazing Wreckage
Death came from the sky in awful form on Monday to Alfred Charles Smith, 60, a well-known farmer, of "Cornwallis," Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beached Steamer Likely to Break Up London
At high tide this afternoon the Dutch steamer Merake, which was beached at Hyhe, was badly awash with heavy seas. She appeared to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bribery Case Ex-policeman Sentenced Judge's Strong Comment Causer Wrecked for Filthy Lucre London
Mr. Justice Avery took two hours and 20 minutes to-day to sum up the case in which an ex-Sergeant of Police Goddard, and two Soho night club…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stranded Steamer Rough Seas Hinder Salvage Tokio
Owing to rough seas prospects are doubtful of salvaging the Messageries Maritime steamer Metzinger, stranded near Moji. The whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Collier Seamen's Bodies Not Recovered Wreckage Washed Ashore Sydney
Although a large number of police searched the foreshores of South Head yesterday and to-day, none of the bodies of the six missing seamen of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage Washed Ashore
A quantity of wreckage, including a brown felt hat, believed to have belonged to one of the crew of the Annie M. Miller, was washed ashore at North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mails Rifled Thieves on Steamer Wellington (N.z.)
When the steamer Wahine arrived from Lyttelton today it was discovered that 40 bags of mail had been rifled and valuables taken. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Collier Inquiry to Be Held Sydney
A preliminary inquiry concerning the foundering of the collier Annie M. Miller will be held on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cannibalise Shipwrecked Smuggler Eats Comrade Helsingfors (Finland)
The newspaper "Husvudstadbladet" reports that four suspected alcohol smugglers were recently shipwrecked in an ice gulf in Finland. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cold Spreads to Britain Low Temperatures Recorded Channel Steamer Wrecked London
To-day Great Britain suffered the coldest day for 20 years. The thermometer recorded 21.23 degrees Fahrenhelt in exposed areas, and went…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cannibalism Gruesome Admission Wrecked Smugglers Rescued Helsingfors
The boat containing the two survivors of the wrecked liquor smugglers' vessel has arrived here. One of the rescued men. Reval, admitted that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plane Total Wreck Goulburn
The inquest concerning the death of Captain F. W. Cornish and Mr. G. K. Write, the victims of Monday's plane fatality at Marulan, will be opened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Delayed Blinding Storm and Heavy Seas London
The steamer Be[?] Castle, with nearly 100 passengers aboard, was exposed for 16 hours, to a blinding snowstorm and tremendous seas during a voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Beached Submerged Object Struck Disaster Narrowly Averted Melbourne
A disaster was narrowly averted when the coastal steamer Casino struck a submerged object which ripped a hole in her bottom off Warrnambool…
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