Launch Wrecked Forty Passengers Saved
Forty passengers, mostly women, had narrow escapes from drowning at midnight on Saturday when a launch in which they were travelling…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932
107 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 6
Newton Elm Stranding of Steamer Inquiry Opened Sydney
An inquiry was opened to-day before the Commonwealth Marine Court in respect to the stranding of the British freighter Newton Elm north of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Newspaper Office Wrecked by Japanese Objectionable Editorial Shanghai
Japanese civilians of Tsingtao took the law into their own hands yesterday, according to a message received here, reporting a clash between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.W.U. Convention What Lang Planners Did Labor Party Wrecked Sydney
The report of the general secretary (Mr. E. Grayndler, M.L.C.) presented to the A.W.U. Convention to-day, declared that the split caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Storm Steamer's Mast and Wireless Room Struck Sydney
When the finer [?], which arrived from San Francisco this morning was [?] miles off the Sydney Heads about midnight, a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Submarine M2 Absence of Wreckage and Oil Unusual Features London
In the House of Commons to-day the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sit Bolten Eyres-Monsell), after dealing with the circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Disabled Propeller Lost PERTH
The Japanese cargo steamer, Cape Town Maru, 5877 tons, bound for Bunbury from Limerick, Ireland, to load wheat, is disabled about 450…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Disabled Propeller Lost 450 Miles From Fremantle Perth
The Japanese cargo steamer Cape Town Maru, 5877 tons, bound for Bunbury from Limerick, Ireland, to load wheat is disable about 450 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car in Sea Women's Body Washed Ashore Melbourne
At [?] this afternoon a body, believed to be that of Mrs. Ivy D'Arcy, aged 43 years, of Swan Hill, was washed up on the shore. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Air Liner Found in Mountains Charred [?]Odfes of Fight Persons Los Angeles
The wreck of the Century Pac[?] airliner which vanished in a ste[?]m a week ago while it was on [?] way here from Bakerswille, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disabled Steamer Towed Into Port Fremantle (W.a.)
The Japanese steamer Cape Town Maru, which lost her propeller 300 miles from Cape Leeuwin last week, was lowed into port to-day by the tag…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Aground Total Wreck Feared Master and Crew Safe Sydney
The Patrick Steamship Company's cargo vessel, Northern Firth, grounded on Brush Island, off Warden Head, 30 miles south of Ulladulla on the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Ashore No Hope of Refloating Sydney
A message from Ulladulla states that there is practically no hope of refloating the steamer Northern Firth, which went ashore at Brush Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manly Steamer Crashes Into Baths Defective Steering Gear Sydney
There was considerable excitement at Manly this morning, when the reversing gear on the Manly ferry steamer Curl Curl failed to operate and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New P. & O. Steamer Strathaird
At the Luncheon which followed the inspection of the new 22,500 ton electric steamer Strathaird, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, deputy chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck on Brush Island Leeton Schoolboy in It
Last week on Brush Island, off the south coast of the State, the steamship "Northern Chief" of the Patrick line was wrecked. All on board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stranded Steamer Efforts to Refloat Sydney
Lloyd's London office has cabled to their Sydney agents stating that every effort must be made to refloat the stranded steamer Northern Firth, now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Race To Port Steamer Afire Sydney
With one hold a raging furnace and huge billows of black smoke streaming behind her, the Inter-State steamer Time, anchored in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on Steamer Ship Puts Back Blaze Checked Sydney
With smoke issuing from No. 3 hold, the Australian Steamships' steamer Time put back to Sydney late on Friday night from a position 30 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thieves on Steamer Many Losses Reported Gang of International Crooks Sydney
The police this morning boarded the liner Mnunganui, which arrived from New Zealand and which had 400 passengers on hoard. They remained for…
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