The U Boat Campaign. American Steamer Sunk. New York
Survivors who have arrived at an Atlantic port report that the American steamer Owasco was torpedoed early in December in the Mediterranean. Two lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
1,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 54
Revolutionaries Wrecking Shops at Petrograd
Readers of the cables in the daily papers will recall the reign of lawlessness which marked the earlier stages of the Revolution in Russia. There was, and is likely to be again, an orgy of senseless destruction, in which women and soldiers were the worst offenders. They wrecked and looted shops with a reckless disregard of consequences. This pieture, which is from a series in the "Graphic," drawn by their special artist,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Steamer Service to Java
PERTH, Sunday.--The Perth Chamber of Manufactures, which some time ago Protested through the Government against New South Wales subsidising a steamer service to Java,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Spanish Steamer. Sunk by Submarine. Captain Arrested. London, Sunday Night
A message from Madrid tells of the sinking of a new Spanish steamer. The newspaper "Sol" says the Giralda, of [?] tone, was sunk westward of Guardia The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked in the Islands. Two Large Schooners Lost
During a hurricane which ban apparently swept through the islands within the last three weeks two large vessels have been wrecked.' They are the four-masted schooners Mahukona…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plight of an Island Steamer. Driven on a Lee Shore
One of Burns. Philp, and Company's steamers, which has reached Sydney, also passed through the cyclone, and had an exciting experience. Like the Morialta, this vessel sough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner's Gallant Fight
A small French schooner encountered a German submarine off the French coast. A duel ensued in which the schooner was damaged, but forced the enemy to give way. A second…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Unsinkable Lifeboat Sydney Man's Claim
Mr. R. Green, of Greenwich, formerly a champion sculler, claims to have invented an unsinkable lifeboat. The model is built in two sections. The length of the boat is 60ft…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Schooner Launched and Ready for Sea
The four-mastcd schooner Luther Little, building at Somerset, Mass., for Rogers and Webb, was launched on December 18. She left the ways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First News of Disaster Signals Flashed to Steamer Necessity for Wireless Brisbane
One thing emphasised more than ever by the disaster at Mackay is the necessity of establishing a wireless station at Flat. Top or Mackay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Ships Torpedoed. Doubt About the Andania. Another Steamer Lost on Irish Coast
There is some doubt concerning the late of the Cusard liner A[?] which was [?]orpedecd off the coast of Uister. One report was received in London gating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paxton & Co.'s Wharf at Mackay Which Has Been Wrecked by the Storm
THE VESSEL OF THE RIGHT IS THE BRINAWARR, WHICH SANK…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Missing. Maryborough (Q.)
Much anxiety is felt in Maryborough regarding the fate of the timber auxlliary schooner Orete, which left Marborough at midday on January 16. bound for Mackay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mackay Disaster. Sugar Mills Wrecked. Scenes of Destruction. Gladstone
Mr. Peele, manager of North Eton Mill, who resides 22 miles from Mackay, has reached Gladstone. In the course of an interview, he stated that the mill buildings commonced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Kangaroo
PERTH, Friday.—The Agent-General (Mr. Connolly) has cabled to the Premier that the State steamer Kangaroo, which was recently injured by a collision in England, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer Due To-day
Allinga, from Queensland ports. STEAMERS DUE TO-MORROW. Wodonga, from Adelaide, via Melbourne. Ceduna, from Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Struck by Heavy Sea. Bellinger Almost Wrecked
BELLINGEN, Friday.—The locally-owned coastal steamer Bellinger narrowly escaped being wrecked while crossing the Bellinger Piver bar from Sydney this morning. A heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Queensland Floods No Further Rises Schooner Orete Safe Brisbane
The flood situation at Mackay is improving. Tho flood waters in the north are very slowly receding. It has been decided to retain the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Bursts From West Big Seas in the Bay Woman Buried in Wreckage MELBOURNE
A severe storm accompanied by lightning, and at places some hail, swept over the city and suburbs about 4 o'clock this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Overdue Schooner Orete Safe
The Queensland Marine Department has received advice from the portmaster at Mackay that the schooner Orete has arrived there. Much anxiety was…
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