A Shipbuilding Triumph Steamer Fordsdale Experts Agree Technically Faultless
The steamer Fordsdale, built at Cockatoo Island for the Australian Commonwealth Line, underwent highly satisfactory speed trials yesterday off…
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Wrecked Port Elliot Inquiry Opened WELLINGTON, N.Z.
The inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Port Elliot was opened to-day. The evidence showed that the weather conditions wore clear at sea, but hazy on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer's Lifeboat Capsizes in Harbor Seventeen Seamen Thrown Into Water--Lloyd's Inspectors Present--Tested for Seaworthiness
That there is urgent need for rigid inspection of vessels and life-boats is evident by the hitherto unpublished report of an accident which occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Detained. Lifeboats Deficient. Navigation Departments Action
The Australian Commonwealth cargo steamer Booral has been detained in Syndey since Wednesday, owing to the alleged instability of the ship's life boats…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Robbery on Steamer
A robbery of fuji silk was carried out on the steamer Yoshine Maru as it lay at the wharf in Walsh Bay on Thursday. The room where the material was stored was forced open, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Pilot Steamer Captain Cook
After an absence of about five days from Sydney, the pilot steamer Captain Cook returned yesterday afternoon. The Captain Cook left Sydney on Sunday night, under Captain Macrae, for Newcastle, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Steamer Bulga For Timber Trade
The steamer Bulga, which was recently purchased from the Commonwealth Government Line, when placed in commission by her new owners will enter into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SATISFACTORY Steamer Fordsdale Through Her Trials
The new steamer Fordsdale performed splendidly in iter ocean-going trials on Thursday and yesterday. After clearing the Heads at 9,30 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eight Years of Torture Another Randwick War Wreck
In the by-ways of life you stumble upon war wrecks who have suffered a world of pain for what they conceived to be their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion on Steamer Two Men Injured
UNLEY, Saturday.—The steamer Kapera, on her trip from Kombia with a cargo of coal, had a sensational experience when six miles off Cape Otway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To Eliminate Bondi Shark and Surf Perils Warning and Observation Tower 75 Yards Out Lifeboat and Reels to be Beyond Line of Breakers
The most unique safety idea yet inspired by the surf and shark dangers of our reaches has been placed before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stranded Steamer. Claimed As Prize. Hongkong, Feb. 11
The Kallon Mining Company's chartered steamer Hwah-wu, with a cargo of between 5000 and 6000 tons of coal, grounded at Nine Plus, near Hongkong, in a fog on the 9th…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Seventeen Drowned Big Steamer Wrecked LONDON, Tuesday Night
The steamer Mora went ashore at Cape St. Vincent (Portugal) and became a total wreck. Seventeen of the crew of 29 were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fordsdale. Australian-built Steamer
The steamer Fordsdale, built at Cockatoo Dockyard by Australian workmen, and mostly of Australian materials, underwent successful speed trials off the South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Fordsdale. Successful Speed Trials
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, the new steamer Fordsdale, built for the Australian Commonwealth Line at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, put to sea for speed and turning trials…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Delayed. Deckhands Object to a Steward. Port Pirie
The steamer Saros has been delayed at Port Pirie since Saturday because the dockhands decline to proceed to sea with the steward. Whom they allege to be responsible for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Saros Still Held Up Deckhands Objected to Steward-- But is an Old Employee--Coy, Won't Dismiss Him
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.-- News received in Adelaide from Port Pirle states that the reason the steamer Saros has been held up there since…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bodalla Wreck Crossing the Bar Marine Court Finding
The stranding of the steamer Bodalla on the bar at Narooma on January 19 and her subsequent wrecking was inquired into by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Narooma Bar How Vessels Scrape Over Bodalla Wreck
The total loss of the small coastal steamer Bodalla on the rocks at the entrance to Narcoma, on January 19, was inquired into at the Marine Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Direct From 'Frisco Steamer's Big Load
The steamer An[?], under the Swedish [?], arrived at Sydney this morning from San Francisco direct. She was a full ship, having over…
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