Steamer Sinks Tug
Dunkirk, Wednesday.--The steamer Ville de Verdun, from Noumea, sank the tug Trapu in a quayside collision, and then collided with the…
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JAPANESE. Wreck Newspaper Office. Riot at Tsingtao Shanghai, Jan. 13
Japanese civilians at Tsingtao took the law into their own hands yesterday, according to a delayed message which reached here, announcing a serious ciash between Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Japanese Steamer Aground. New York, Jan. 16
Wireless messages from Manila state that the Japanese steamer Kohwa Maru en route from Manila to Geraldton. Western Australia, was forced off its course by a heavy gale, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Personal Experiences as a Nervous Wreck
IN my opinion and that of thousands of others, there is nothing so humiliating as self-consciousness in any of its forms. At one time I suffered…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--After an anxious few days, the steamer Forthbridge arrived in Newcastle this morning en route to Japan…
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Heating of bunkers, which occurred while the steamer Forthridge was bound from Geelong to Newcastle may delay the vessel s voyage to Japan for several days. About 2[?]0 tons of coal will…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Lifeboat. Rights Itself in Storm. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 20
A motor lifeboat, capable of righting itself in four seconds if holed and capsized, was formally handed over to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the Thames to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Search for Missing Steamer. Brisbane
Captain H. Fraser, of Rockhampton, has been commissioned to search the Percy Islands for the small steamer Bopple (267 tons), which is now three days overdue from Townsville. It…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Will Combat Smashing of Unions Congress to Be Convened Effort to Wreck Seamen Crisis Ahead
An immediate effort is to made to call an all-Australian trade union conference with the object of formulating a policy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Launch Wrecked Occupant Came Ashore In Dinghy
A 35ft. launch which was abandoned by its only occupant, who got away on a dinghy, off Avalon Beach last night at 7.15, was wrecked early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overdue Steamer Reported. Brisbane
The steamer Bopple, which is four days overdue from Townsville, was reported off Cape Capricorn late this afternoon. As the vessel had only a fortnight's provisions and a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Launch Wrecked Abandoned Off Rocks at Barrenjoey
A BANDONED off Avalon beach last night by a man who rowed to the shore and disappeared, a 35-foot launch was later found by members…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Sign of Missing Submarine Storm and Fogs Working Up Wreck Found London
The submarine M.2, which disappeared yesterday during diving operations off Portland, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twice in Week Attempt to Wreck Express Calcutta
THE Calcutta-Benares express, which was derailed on Monday owing to the lines having been tampered with, was again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 30, 1932. Wreckers of Churches
Once, during the earliest stages of the Russian revolution, the discovery that one of Moscow's finest churches was within the line of fire caused both sides…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lifeboat at Watson's Bay
Mr. J. T. Kelly, of Newcastle-street, Rose Bay, in a letter to the Editor, directs attention to the inadequacy of the arrangements for launching the lifeboat at Watson's Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Charges. Protest in Suva. SUVA, Jan. 21
The Suva Chamber of Commerce has decided to protest to the Union Steamship Company and the Matson Company against the high freights and fares charged between Suva…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Steamer Hebburn Now a Russian Vessel Named Serget Kiroff
The well-known steamer Hebburn, Which was sold some months ago to foreign buyers, and left. Sydney with a cargo of wheat for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Stevens's Criticism. "Mr. Lang a Wrecker."
The deputy leader of the Opposition (Mr. Stevens) trenchantly criticised the failure of the Premier (Mr. Lang) to meet his commitments…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wrecked Schooner Battered on the Irish Coast
The crew of the schooner Volant was rescued by the breeches buoy apparatus when the vessel was driven ashore at Newcastle (County Down)…
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