Honeymoon Cruise Lifeboat Battles on Calcutta
The ship's lifeboat "Laughingwater," in which Capt. Bugg and two companions are sailing to Australia has arrived at Port Blair in the…
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Steamer Is Total Wreck Ocean Transport Crew Puts Off Safely
The steamer Ocean Transport is a total wreck on the coast of Ocean Island, Caught in a heavy gale, she was swept on to the rocky coast and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Refloated. the Steamer Nirvana. Adelaide
The steamer Nirvana, which grounded near Shoalwater Beacon, Spencer's Gulf, on January 25, was floated off without help. The vessel was undamaged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Job Control Steamer Held Up Newcastle Dispute Newcastle
A GLARING instance of attempted job control is in evidence in the case of the Howard smith steamer cycle. st. present held up in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Total Wreck. Ocean Transport. At Ocean Island
The British cargo steamer Ocean Transport has become a total wreck at Ocean Island. The crew has abandoned the vessel, and the steamer is gradually being pounded to pieces…
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THE FREIGHTER OCEAN TRANSPORT, under charter to load phosphates for Australia, which has been wrecked at Ocean Island. Struck by a sudden squall, the steamer was blown ashore and abandoned by the crew. At last report she was being pounded to pieces on the coral reefs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gun Running Munitions for China Steamer Attacked
The bitter struggle between warring factions in China has decreased in proportion to the growing power of the Nationalist authorities, but an…
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A message has been received at the Mission Office to the effect that the "Tolema" had safely arrived at Papua. All on board were in good health and spirits, and in spite of the buffeting she received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Held Up. Seamen Refuse Duty. Wellington (N.z.)
The steamer Walplata has been held up at Dunedin by the crew refusing to go to sea unless two discharged trimmers were reinstated. The crew have given twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Steamer Yarra. "A Sad Spectacle." Story of Destruction. Brisbane
On his return to Brisbane yesterday morning by the Burns, Philp steamer Mataram, after making an examination of the Norwegian steamer Yarra, which was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Propeller Damaged. Steamer Anchises
Advice was received in Sydney yesterday to the effect that the starboard propeller of the Blue Funnel passenger steamer Anchises, en route from Australian ports to London and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Steamer Yarra. Afire for Two Weeks. Crew's Grim Struggle
Amazing fortitude was displayed by the crew of the Norwegian cargo steamer Yarra, which was recently burnt at Gizo, in the Solomon [?]slands. For fourteen days the seamen fought…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Burnt to the Water's Edge Steamer Yarra Epic Fight with Flames
When Captain Rothe arrived in Sydney on Saturday with his officers and crew he told a stirring story of the tire which destroyed his ship, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Famous Atlantic Flier Crashes and Wrecks 'Plane 50 Feet Chamberlin's Fall Wing Crumples New York
Clarence Chamberlin, the famous trans-Atlantic flier and holder of records, crashed badly to-day. The 'plane was wrecked, but luckily, neither he, nor his companion, Roger Williams, was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby Hurled Twenty Feet But Unhurt Pram Smashed to Pieces, and a Fruit Stall Wrecked an Amazing Escape
A year-old baby was hurled 20 feet in its pram, and a fruit stall was completely wrecked, when a motor-car, driven by S…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coaling a Steamer in Neutral Bay
The Argyllshire being coaled oil Kirribilli Pier by the Fortuna, equipped with special apparatus. Residents near the foreshores complain of the noise attending the coaling, which is often carried on all night…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →To Avoid the Bustle Lady Stonehaven's Mother Arrives on Freight Steamer
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Shunning the bustle of the ordinary crowded mail boat, Lady Stonehaven's mother and younger sister, the Countess of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Basketing" Ashore at Byron Bay -- Trials of a Teamster
OXEN AT OBERON.--Persons who hanker after the "good old days" will sigh at the sight of this bullock team in the West. "IT NEVER RAINS BUT--."--Kurrajong Park Lagoon, on the estate of the late Mr. J. J. M'Nickle, in the Murrumbidgee…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Job Control. Steamer Iron Knob. Newcastle
Job control tactics by the crew of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steamer Iron Knob resulted in the company paying off the seamen yesterday, and the tying up…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Schooner Ashore. Salvage Considered Doubtful
The American wooden four-masted schooner North Bend, bound from Brisbane to Coos Bay, went ashore at the mouth of the Columbia River on…
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