Storms Beaten Yacht From Melbourne Fight Against Gales
Fighting into the teeth of gales and running before treacherous southerly squalls, clinging desperately to a deck continuously swept by heavy seas; one…
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1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 94
Storm Reaches Melbourne. Melbourne
A dust storm from Central Australia reached Melbourne on Saturday night, and the new year was ushered in with showers of red rain caused by the drops collecting the dust. The…
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The full force of the gale was felt on the harbor yesterday, and vessels A in the stream rose heavily to their anchors…
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A violent southerly gale which swept over Sydney with remarkable suddenness yesterday afternoon whipped up angry seas within a few moments…
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Travellers who returned from Melbourne yesterday state that on Saturday afternoon, while leaving Melbourne, nothing could be seen in any direction…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Terrific gales have been raging in parts of the State, and at Moorook yesterday the velocity of the wind, with its volumes of sand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Was Grilled, Chilled, and Buffeted All in One Day First Real Heat Wave of the Summer Followed by Fiercest Gale Since Easter Cyclone -- Blew Out After Twelve Gusts Surfing Dangerous in Heavy Seas
To be grilled when the temperature rose to 100.5. degrees, chilled when it fell to the sixties, and buffeted by a howling southerly gale in between--that was the experience of Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratahs Win After Snow Storm Visitors' Superiority Start Delayed by Weather London
ONE hundred workmen, assisted by volunteers, cleared the ground at Bristol of snow yesterday to enable the Waratahs to fulfil their fixture with the combined Gloucestershire and Somerset team…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Seep Wagga Area Experiment Farm Fighters Have Hard Battle Gale Aids Outbreak Wagga
ONE of the most sensations bush fires for many years in this district occurred on Saturday, threatening to wipe out the whole of the Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Faced Death in Raging Seas Fight with Gale Missing Radio Man Safe Yacht Overturned Overturned Adre[?]t for Seven Hours
JACK To-day, wireless [?]etor on the steamer Yankalilla, who [?] thought [?] have been drowned when the yacht [?]chief cap[?]ed in Broken Bay during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City Swelters and Is Struck by Roaring Gale Record Heat and Wind Small Craft Have Rough Time Outside the Heads Many Yachts Near Disaster
THE smelting, blistering heat that laid hold of Sydney yesterday was a record for the summer--100.5 degrees at the maximum. The galloping southerly which swept the city was very nearly a record, 100---54 miles an hour at the zenith!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Danger Britain's Troubles Thaw Expected London
SNOW fell in many parts of Scotland and Wales to-day, but in the South of England, it timed to sleet, and foreca[?]ts indicate that a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survived in Great Gale How Tiny Boat Saved Lad's Life Heroism of Three Companions Epic Story of Sunday's Storm
REAVILY-CLAD, unable to swim, and alone in a liny cockleshell boat, the story of how Jack Toohey reached Lion Island in the teeth of a bowling gale, will prove an epic of coastal adventuring when Toohey recovers sufficiently to tell it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Dawn's" End Crashed in Gale Off Cape Cod New York
Mrs. Grayson s airplane The Dawn, crashed a short distance off Cape Cod on the night of December 23…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1927 Was Year Remarkable for Its Weather Easter Cyclone Was Feature In Itself Mr. Mares' Review
A year of weather contrasts! In this respect 1927 will live in the memories of "old-timers!" of the future…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Yacht's Grim Battle in Howling Gale Splendid Seamanship Pulled Her Through to Safety Worst for Years
Accompanied by Messrs. M Rae and Burroughs, Rear-Commodore. Paul Ross, of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, put up a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rained Mud! Unique Storm at Sea Dust From Cent. Aus.? Ship Red to Waterline
To sail through a storm of dark red mud that fell for hours out at sea was the unique experience of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →England's Tra[?] Floods Follow Snow London [?]
Floods, which [?] reports from all parts of the country, are r[?]ded by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Frost's Grip Followed by Flood King's Ruinous Embrace Under Water Thaw Adds to England's Misery London Suburbs Flooded London
The old year went out in Britain with terrific blizzards which left the South of England covered with snow. The New Year has brought the wished-for thaw, but severe floods are reported from all parts of the country, adding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menace of Floods [?] Britain Thaws Thames Valley in Danger Perils of Starvation London, Monthly
WIDESPREAD flood threaten England as a result of a great thaw releasing enormous masses of snow and ice…
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