Cause of Mafalda Wreck Rome
The court of inquiry have found that the direct cause of the loss of the Italian liner Principesse Mafalda, which was wrecked off the coast of…
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Wrecking Fund Plan Works Well
EARLY last year according to an American report Chevrolet set up a fund whereby the company was able to pay dealers[?] dol. lars for each old Chevrolet which was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tassie Alarmed No Sydney Steamer Hobart
The Deputy-Premier. having been advised that U[?]. Parker Ltd. propose to take the steamer Zealandia off the Hobart to Sydney run has wired to the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greycliffe Wreck Tenders for Purchase
THE two portions of the Graycilffe at Athol Bight are being offered for sale by tender by Sydney Perries, Ltd., Tenders must undertake to remove the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Crew Ocean Island Epic Newcastle
A thrilling story of the seven hours' fight against inrushing waters through a gaping hole in the side of the s.s. Ocean Transport, and of a terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale's Plaything Big Steamer Wrecked Seven Hours Fight Tossed on to Coral Reef Newcastle
A thrilling story of a seven hours fight against the inrushing water, through a gaping hole in the side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Steamer Kalingo
Having discharged a cargo of steel plates to be used in the construction of the floating dock at Walsh Island, the new steamer Kalingo, built in Scotland for R. S. Lamb and Co. reached Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Steamer Recommissioned. Melbourne
Arrangements have been made for the recommissioning of the A.U.S.N. line cargo steamer Macumba, which has been lying idle at Melbourne since February 10. The vessel, which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer Sunk. London, Feb. 25
The P. and O. H[?]er Moldavia, in response to an S.O.S., picked up a man in the English Cha[?], among a large quantity of wreckage, following the collision of the Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pilgrimage to Battlefields Reduced Steamer Fares for Australians
Details have been received from London of the proposed pilgrimage of Empire war veterans to the battlefields of France and Belgium in August…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smallpox Case on Steamer Quarantined at Adelaide Adelaide
A case of smallpox is reported on board the steamer City of Palermo, which is bound for the eastern States from Singapore and Java. The victim…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Smallpox Case Reported on Steamer Among Indian Crew Adelaide
A CASE of smallpox is reported among the Indian crew of the steamer City of Palermo, which arrived in the Outer Harbor, from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked Crew Whom Kanakas Saved
Some of the crew of the [?] Ocean Island. That they ever[?] at Newcastle was due to the bravery of [?] who went out in the [?] and get a line from the [?] to the others…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Story of a Wreck. Crew Saved by Kanakas. the Ocean Transport Newcastle
A graphic description of the wrecking of the steamer Ocean Transport which, in a raging gale, ran on a reef off Ocean Island on January 30, was related by members of the crew who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bakehouse Wrecked Devastating Hornsby Explosion Man Badly Hurt Others Have Amazing Escapes
When a boiler which was used to supply steam for a baking oven exploded at Judge's bakery in Coronation-street, Hornsby, early this morning it wrecked the bakery wall, blew off the roof, shattered nearby windows and scattered debris in every direction…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Battered by Angry Seas Crew's Plight Ocean Transport Wreck an Apprentice Dies
THE Story of many hours' strenuous batting to stone the water pouring through a Jagged hole to the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Steamer Taormina
An invitation has been extended by the AustralianHalia line to the Italian residents of Sydney to inspect the new steamer Ta[?]mina at No. 2 Circular Quay on Saturday, Pictures of interest to Italians…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Steamer for the Coal and Timber Trade
Inset: Capt. D. williams (master.)…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Dilga. Grounded in Port Phillip. Melbourne
Laden with a cargo of sugar from Queensland the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Dilga went aground on a sandbank in the south channel, about 10 miles inside of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Smallpox on Steamer. Man Landed in Adelaide. Adelaide
The steamer City of Palermo, from Singapore and Java, having reached Semaphoio anchorage on Sunday afternoon With a colouied cook's assistant ill with smallpox, the…
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