Ashore Crew of Dredge Eden Incident Eden
THE dredge Nereus, owned by the Penguin Salvage Co., which left Sydney 14 days ago for delivery to the purchasers, the Ulverstone…
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Husband Lays Bare His Grievance Wants It Redressed How Some Wives Can Wreck Homes Plea for Restitution Suits
ALL'S fair in love and war, but seldom in some marriages. Some man are damned at a woman's whim, turned into bent, despairing creatures, often potential suicides, sans all ambition, lacking die hope-filled shining eyes and the springy step of Youth…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Shipping INTELLIGENCE & WEATHER Looking Back Pilot Claimed by Hurricane Six Lost In Wreck On Queensland Coast
Caught in a hurricane Off the Queensland coast in January, 1907, the small steamer Pilot went down, with a loss of six lives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Looking Back Dredge Lost at Sea Steamer's Search of Lonely Islands
Big seas in the Southern Indian Ocean accounted for the dredge Walrus, with a crew of about a dozen men, in January, 1907…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Artist on a Tramp Steamer
ON a freighter bound for Sydney is Claude Muncaster, an English artist, who is working his passage as one of the crew. He spends his "off" time on the vessel painting, and from Sydney he hopes to get a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Ship in Distress Enton Ashore On Reef Near Noumea
FOLLOWING a fire among case oil in her cargo, the British motor-ship Enton is ashore on the southern end…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fought Atlantic's Fury For 30 Days Starved and Helpless Schooner's Crew in Grim Ordeal New York
STARVING and half frozen, seven Newfoundland sailors fought a terrific battle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Looking Back Two Strange Wrecks Night of Terror at Port Adelaide
Before daylight on Sunday, April 21. 1907, Port Adelaide was the scene of two remarkable wrecks in which, fortunately, only one life…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Motorship Ashore at New Caledonia
The motorship Enton, which is hard and fast on a reef to the south-east of New Caledonia. Although first reports were alarming, salvage is now considered possible…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ashore on Reef. Motorship Enton. No Immediate Danger
Ashore on a reef to the south-east of New Caledonia, the British motorship Enton is not in any immediate danger, and an attempt is to be made to-day to refloat her. Earlier…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorship Enton Strikes Reef. Ashore Near Noumea; Leaking Slightly
The motor ship Enton, well known in the Australian trade, is ashore on a reef at the south-eastern end of New Caledonia. Earlier messages regarding the condition of the vessel were of a conflicting nature, One message stated that the vessel had a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two New Vessels. New Phosphate Steamer. to Be Named Triad
The name Triad has been selected for the vessel now being built by the British Phosphate Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nightmare Trip of Shearers Running the Gauntlet of Wreckers ROCKHAMPTON
WHEN the train containing the southern shearers, which ran the gauntlet of wrecking attempts and a fierce barrage of stones from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heard by the Way Water Melons for the Wrecked—How to Run a Meeting—Price of Milk-Ten Guinea Cup-The "Dear" Ladies, etc. Fourpence Profit
THE rabbit skin business is not always a gold mind. A Caudelo man recently sent 9lbs. of rabbit skins to a Sydney firm, and received two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo Mail in Peril at Katoomba "Deliberate Attempt to Wreck," Say Police Crowbar on Line : Lamp Removed Katoomba
WHAT is believed by the police to have been a deliberate attempt to wreck the Dubbo mail, was made near Katoomba railway station, early to-day. As the train was drawing into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WRECKED! Sunlit Reef Upends 'Em No Woe for Wood
"WRECKED on the Barrier Reef," should have been the notice hung out after the first flutter of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecker Fails Attempt on Mudgee Mail
In an attempt early yesterday morning to wreck the Mudgee Mail, which had 100 passengers on board, a locomotive pinch bar, 3ft. long, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Looks Like Work of a Maniac Police Take No Risks After Rail-wreck Attempt
Only a maniac could have been responsible for the dastardly attempt to wreck the Mudgee mail train early yesterday morning, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Fares
Contrary to a report in the "Sydney Morning Herald," shipping companies trading across the Pacific, for the present, will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer's Second Mishap In Three Weeks
FOR the second time since she entered Australian waters on this cruise, the Canadian Britisher limped into port yesterday with engine…
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