More Wrecks. Terrific Gales Raging. Unknown Steamer Sunk. All Hands Lost
Evening News · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 8
LONDON, Friday Evening.—Another terrible shipping disaster has occurred off Swansea, in consequence of the violent gales that are raging over Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wild Weather. Gales and Loss, Oe Life. Steamer on the Rocks. Fifty-three Drowned
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 13
LONDON, Thursday Evening.--A lifeboat followed for five hours the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, belonging to the Hall Line. Ltd., Liverpool, which was drifting helplessly before…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Violent Weather. Gales in Britain. a Terrible Shipwreck. Fifty-three Lives Lost. London, Jan. l8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 17
During the gale which swept over Britain a lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, for five hours, until the tide, which was like a maelstrom, dashed the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Terrific Gales in England—great Loss of Life
Sunday Times · Sunday 21 January 1912 · page 14
During a gale which swept over Britain daring the week a lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, for live hours, until the tide, which was like a maelstrom, dashed the steamer on the rocks at Bullers…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Caught in a Gale. Barque Damaged. Hove to for Days
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 10
The French barque Touraine, which arrived at Port Jackson yesterday from Philadelphia, encountered very severe weather after passing the Cape of Good Hope, the wind blowing with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Terrific Gales in England
Globe · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 2
The above picture gives some idea of what a gale means on the English cosst. A wave is shown breaking over the Marine Parade at listings. All last week England was swept by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dave Smith and Cyclone Thompson on Anniversary Night
Referee · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 7
Next Friday night we will have tho pleasure of witnessing at the Stadium what should prove a great fight. Cyclone Johnny Thompson and Dave Smith are to meet again. They fought…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Dead Man at the Wheel. In a Howling Gale a Motor-car is Steered into a 25ft. Deep Stream. Horror of Crowd Waiting Low Tide. Surrounded with Mystery
Globe · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 1
A man rusted breathlessly in to Wisbech, a small town in the English midlands, early one morning last month with the news that he had been the top of a large headed motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boxing. Dave Smith v "Cyclone" Thompson
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 10
The return match between Dave Smith and "Cyclone Johnny" Thompson will be decided at the Stadium tonight. The men met last season, and after a contest which went the full term Smith succeeded in obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods in England a Submerged Town
Evening News · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 8
LONDON, Thursday Evening.—Extraordinary rains have been experienced in the Thames Valley. The [?] of the town of Maiden[?], in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →La Boxe. Taxes Paris by Storm
The World's News · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 16
PARISIANS have taken very seriously to boxing. This does not mean that nowadays Parisians put their fists up at every street…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SKILL v. Persistence. Dave Smith Beats Thompson "The Cyclone" Outpointed
Evening News · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 10
As Dave Smith outpointed Bundsman Rice, and the latter beat Cyclone Johnny Thompson comfortably on points, a natural conclusion, by quite primitive reasoning, was that Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer's Ill Luck Hillcrag's Career. Storms, Mutiny, Grounding. Port Pirie
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 15
There are probably few vessels afloat that have met with so many misfortunes as have befallen the steamer Hillcrag, which will sail from Port Pirie for Sydney to-morrow. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Paris Fight-mad. La Boxe Takes Gay City by Storm. Sport Threatens to Replace "La Savate."
The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 3
Parisians have taken very seriously to boxing (writes the Pails correspondent of the "Express"). I do not mean to say that nowadays Parisians put their fists up at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thames Valley Flooded. London, Jan. 25
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 15
Extraordinary rains have tallen over the Thames Valley. The streets in Maidenhead are submerged, and hundreds of cottages are isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Heroine of Flood. Drowned After Saving Boy
The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 2
Miss Sarah Howells, a teacher of Glamorgan, was drowned in the River Ogmore just after she had rescued one of her pupils from the flood. The boys were playing football in a field near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Rains. Flood the Thames Valley
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 13
LONDON, Thursday Evening.--Extraordinarily heavy rains have fallen in the Thames Valley. The streets at Maidenhead, Berkshire, were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Scattered Thunderstorms and Showers
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 16
A fow light to moderate showers have been recorded, the result in most cases of thunderstorms which have been recorded along the northern border districts. Mogil had 69 points…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Flight in a Gale. Airman's Notable Ascent. San Francisco
The Sun · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 8
Lincoln Beachey, the American airman,made a remarkable flight in Los Angeles yesterday, when, during a gale that was blowing at the rate of 50 miles an hour, he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The New Flagship. List of Officers. Midshipmen Once More. Powerful in a Storm at Sea
Evening News · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 6
COLOMBO. January 14.—H.M.S. Drake, the new flagship, having relieved H.M.S. Powerful at Colombo, is now on her way to Robert, under the command of Captain E. F. Bruer…
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