A Year's Wrecks
Who knows, without looking it up, how many ships are wrecked in a year? In the first three months of the present year 89 steamers and motor-ships and 35…
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1,337 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 67
Launch in Danger. Pilot Steamer to Rescue. Race Against Time Newcastle
Scanning the coastline shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon, the signalman at Nobby's Lighthouse noticed a small motor launch heading slowly for the rocks near the ocean baths…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Four Men Cheat Watery Grave Launch in Danger Pilot Steamer to the Rescue Newcastle
Battered by a heavy swell from the south, with the engine useless and four men frantically struggling with sail and oars, a launch went…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Return to Wrecked Homes Cessnock Dwellers Seven-foot Water Marks Cessnock
On Monday, a meeting Will probably be called of residents of the area recently flooded, the object being to request the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EARTHQUAKES Hours of Terror Towns Wrecked New York, Saturday, Jan. 1
Violent earthquakes shook the entire Imperial Valley, in California, and Northern Mexico, shortly after midnight, while the residents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Hero Dead Saved One Thousand Lives
William Adams, the veteran Goodwin Sands here, and late coxwain of the Deal lifeboat, has died at Deal in his seventy-seventh year. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missionary Steamer. Returns to Sydney
After an absence of nearly four months the London Missionary Society's steamer John Williams returned to Sydney yesterday from an extensive South Sea Island cruise Fine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Daring Stowaway Hidden in Lifeboat Almost Got Here
Securely hidden,under the cover of a lifeboat on the upper deck of the Changte, a stowaway defied detection on the long voyage from Hongkong to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a Lifeboat Stowaway Found a "Visit to Sydney"
QUITE comfortable in a big life beat, with more than 40lb of bread and much fresh water, a stowaway was found on the…
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Advice received in Sydney states that the Norwegian-Australian motor ship Trianon ran aground near Gothenburg on Sunday last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.u.s.n. Steamer Erriba
The steamer Erriba, which has been lying idle in Sydney since November 22, is to enter the interstate trade before the end of the month. The vessel has been docked for overhaul and repairs. Formerly a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Survivor Insane Whisky Ship Wreck "News" Special Mexico City
THE captain and six of the crew were drowned when the British schooner Caiman, from Havana to Belize with a [?]go of whisky was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Drowned Whisky Ship Wrecked Only Survivor Insane Mexico City
The captain and six members of the crew of the British schooner Caiman, bound from Havana to British Honduras, with a cargo of whisky,…
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The pacific Cable Board's steamer Iris left Alick. land yesterday for Bass strait to repair the cable between Tasmania and Melbourne…
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A collision between the Swedish steamer. Unden and Fenwick's tug Hero, occurred in the harbor late this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Seven Drowned Whisky Ship Wrecked Mexico City, Tuesday. Jan. 4
The captain and six of the crew were drowned when the British schooner Caiman, travelling front Havana to Belize, with a cargo of whisky,…
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Most of the visitors devoted yesterday afternoon to a tour by motor car through the city, and suburbs The first party disembarked at half-past twelve. and climbed into a fleet…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →News in Brief Steamer's Long Bath
Melbourne,:--Saturday.--Efforts were begun to-day to refloat the steamer Malaita, which was blown into South Melbourne bathe on November 17, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Melting Pot. Jack Ashore Where there's a Jill, there's a pay
GO TO SOLOMON If you are in love go to a married man for advice. MORE, MORE!…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Old Sydney. The Sydney that Never Dies Concerning G. V. Brooke — A Great Actor — The Wreck of The London — A Stirring Oration
A FRIEND has favored me with a sight of a play-bill of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, which will be of great interest to Sydney readers of "Truth." THEATRE ROYAL—Drury Lane…
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