Wreck Report Lives and Insurance
The "wreck report" of the State Department of Navigation made available to-day reveals that 47 people lost their lives in shipping casualties…
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1,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 60
Steamer on Fire
WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Friday.-- Shortly after the steamer City of Bath had left Dunedin for Launceston a fire was discovered in No. 2 hold, among…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A Stricken Steamer. Sixteen Deaths. Vancouver, Feb. 16
A message from San Francisco states that 16 Filipinos died from pneumonia on board the steamer President Cleveland, which arrived at Honolulu on Thursday from Manila. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →'Plane Wrecked. Passengers Uninjured. Adelaide
A 'plane with which Flight-Lieut. Miller had made trips recently with passengers from Adelaide to Port Victor and back was wrecked in a forced landing, two miles out of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Pilot Hurt in New Guinea Round Australia 'Plane Wrecked
SALAMOA (New Guinea), Friday.-- Pilot Shaw, trying to land at Lae after dark, crashed. Pie was thrown clear of the machine with great violence, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Kindur Sails
The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co. has been advised that the bew steamer Kindur completed her light and loaded trial, and sailed from Glasgow on Friday morning for Sydney, via Suez…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Whaler Ashore? No Word From Crew Wireless Message Melbourne
Estimated to be carrying a crew of 100, the French whaling ship, Lozere, is believed to have gone ashore at Kerguelen…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Steamer. Australia-new Zealand Trade. Arrives at Newcastle. Newcastle
Loaving Greenock on November 27, the new steamer Kalingo, which was constructed by the Clyde Engineering and Shipbuilding Company for Messrs. R. S. Lamb and Co., Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War Wrecks Provision for Wives to Visit Asylums
RETURNED soldiers, patients in mental hospitals, whose homes are in the country, think that [?] Government should make monetary…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wreckers of Walsh Island
The boiler-makers at Walsh Island went on strike because they objected to being paid by results. They insist upon the flat rate wage, and, incidentally, the highest that they can extract from the management regardless of what return is given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Byron Bay Damage Steamer's Record Cargo Byron Bay
For the month [?] points of rain have fallen at Byron Bay. The steamer Wollong[?]ar left for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Wrecked. Destruction at Uralla. Uralla
Following very heavy rain on Saturday night, waterways in the district are [?]ooded. Yesterday morning the level of the water in Rocky River was the highest known for 41…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Receding Floods Leave Trail of Devastation Death Roll Reaches Eleven Enormous Damage to Property-- Crops Ruined, Stock Drowned, Homes Wrecked Many Narrow Escapes
Floods have spread death and desolation over two States. In New South Wales seven lives have been lost, and four deaths have been reported from Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Steamer. to Replacis Riverina. Order to Be Placed in England
A director of [?]ddart Parker. Ltd., will leave for England shortly to place on [?] there for the construction of a passenger [?]eamer…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Ten Miles Detour Nurse's Grim Experiences Waist Deep in Water Trail of the Wreckage Glenn Innes
TROUGH the water are subsiding, be many weeks, and tens of thousands of pounds will need to be spent, before the [?] to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Message From the Sea "Wrecked on Corio" Is It a Hoax?
"Help Wrecked en [?] island, Boat got loose, George Cann." Written in pencil and barely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping Review. Movement of Steamers Sailing Dates to and from Commonwealth Ports. Schedule Due Dates at Ports on route (Irregular steamer and sailing vessels was page 6 and 7.) U.K. European Ports. (Via Mediterranean and South African ports.) P. & O. LINE. (Mail Service.)
Cathay, left Syd Feb 21, leaves Melbourne 2S, Adel Mar 1, Frem D, Colombo 15, Pt. Sudan 22, Pt. Said 25; duo Marseilles 30, Plymouth April 6,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Atsuta Maru Not N.y.k. Steamer
In the cable edition of "The Sun" on Tuesday mention was made of a collision on the Yangtasze River between a Japanese freighter, Atsuta Maru,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Direct Service. Sydney and Hobart. Steamer to Be Withdrawn. Hobart
It was learned to-day that after her trip from Hobart to Sydney on April 14 the steamer Zealandia will be withdrawn from the service, and that during the winter months there…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Total Wreck Hulk at Pt. Stephens Newcastle
THE [?] which went ashore near port Stephens some months ago, broks in hiving yesterday and has been decide a total week…
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