Steamer Refloated Adelaide
The steamer City of Dieppe, which went aground in Port Pirie channel while outward bound was refloated at 9 o'clock and brought. with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933
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Steamer on Sandbank
Efforts will be made early this morning to re-float the North Coast Co.'s steamer Kinchela, which went aground on a sandbank at the North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Kinchela Aground on Spit. Port Macquarie
The steamer Kinchela is aground on the Ballina spit. The bar is very bad, and crossing in at 1 a.m. to-day the vessel was dragged on to the bar, working away north until she was…
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THE position of the North Coast steamer Kinchela, which grounded on the sand-spit at the entrance of Port Macquarie, was considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Waitemata. Now a Japanese Steamer
The ex Union Steamship Company's steamer Waitemata, which was recently sold to W. Crosby & Co., and then to Japanese buyers, arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Tinana. Purchased by John Burke Line. Brisbane
The coastal steamer Tinana has been purchased by John Burke, Ltd., of Brisbane, from William Collin and Sons, Ltd. The Tinana, which is of 800 tons gross, was built in Dundee for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lost Pictures N.z. Artist's Death Recalls Wreck
THE loss of the steamer Manuka off the South Island of New Zealand in 1928 with a collection of contemporary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Amazing Salvage. Relics of Wreck of 1609
Three human skulls have been brought up from the Madre de Dios, a Portuguese galleon, which sank off Shiro Island, Nagasaki, in 1609. The divers who found…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →First Polish Steamer in Leningrad
Schemes (or establishing a regular communication between Gdynia and Leningrad are at present under discussion in Poland. It is intended to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY-ELECTION. Country Candidate Favored Exciting Scenes Booths Are Wrecked LISMORE
EXCITING scenes marked the close of the campaign in the by-election for the Lismore seat in the State Parliament rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Amazing Fortitude of Woman in Far North Catches Fish for Living on Coast Near Darwin Shipwrecked on Reef Darwin
Clinging for hours of darkness to a constantly capsizing native canoe in the shark and crocodile-infested waters of Vernon Shoals, at the top of Australia. A few weeks later shipwrecked off Cape Don, spending three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jack Ashore
A British sailor on shore leave from his Warship in the Mediterranean setting out to explore Gibraliar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ferry Hits Stonewall Passengers Safely Ashore Steering Fails
When the steering gear jammed last night the Parramatta River ferry, Renown, veered from her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Ship Sinking 560 Miles Off Coast Caught in Fierce Cyclone German Steamer Speeding to Rescue Brief Messages From Failing Wireless
Unable to transmit complete S.O.S. messages the Japanese steamer Kinsen Maru with a crew of 40 aboard is rapidly filling, and sinking 560 miles east of Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sea Tragedy Feared. Japanese Tramp Steamer Missing. Nearly Two Days' Silence. Rescue Ship Searches in Vain
The Japanese wheat tramp Kinsen Maru, from which S.O.S. messages were picked up on Monday morning, is now missing. After more than 24 hours of silence from the sinking ship, the Norwegian motor freighter Talleyrand reached the position given in the last distress…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Nothing Seen of Stricken Kinsen Maru Rescue Ship Searches Storm-tossed Ocean Seas Abating No Trace of Crew, Boats, or Wreckage Found
A FRANTIC S.O.S. -- then an ominous silence. Since Monday, the fate of the tramp steamer Kinsen Maru, which,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Trace. Kinsen Maru Believed to Have Foundered. Crew May Be in Boats
Hope that the Japanese wheat tramp Kinsen Maru will be found, afioat has now given way to the practical certainty that the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Drowned From Ferry Off the Heads Found by Lifeboat Crew in Search
A DESPERATE attempt to save an unknown man who fell from the top deck of the Manly ferry Barrenjoey was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commandant Destremau. French Steamer Sold to Chinese
The French inter-island steamer Commandant Destremau. which is at present at Sydney, has been sold by her owners, the Societe Anonyme Caledonia, Noumea, to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Great Mass of Sea Rushed Into Engine Room Crew's Fight For Life As Kinsen Maru Foundered Graphic Story By Rescuing Captain No Boats Launched
EVERY man for himself was the frightful prospect before the crew of the doomed Japanese steamer Kinsen Maru, as she took her final plunge. No lifeboats had been launched, and each man, his life…
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