Beached and Dismantled The End of the Schooner Fides
After lying at the Portland Canal Wharf (South Australia) since 1928, the auxiliary schooner Fides has now been towed to the Ethelton bank of…
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Mission Ketch Takes Refuge
Encountering very heavy weather while en route for New Hebrides, the auxiliary mission schooner Patteson, which left Sydney on January 19,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Music Under Difficulty Girl Trio Rehearse in Steamer's Bowels
Arriving from London on the Hobsons Bay yesterday, the Nelson Trio, under contract to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, rehearsed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision of Schooner and Lighter. Mishap at Port Victoria
Having loaded 2,100 bags of wheat at Tumby Bay, Port Victoria, the motor lighter Nelcebee, while bound for the four-masted barque Padua,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Shanties Wrecked by Rioters
Picturegram showing demolished miners' shanties in the foreign quarter at Boulder. The arrow indicates the International Club, after it had been wrecked by the rioters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ketch Patteson. Adventurous Voyage
The new mission ketch Patteson, which has recently been built for the Melanesian Mission, will stait again for the New Hebrides today…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fishing Ketch Fatality at Cronulla Beach
The auxiliary fishing ketch Ripple stranded on Cronulla Beach. One man was drowned and another rescued after the craft had been abandoned in the boiling surf. Insets: Three of the rescuers, from left: Leo Myers, Frank Greenwood, and R. Bowden; and Peter, the dog, which remained on the ketch and was unharmed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ketch in Surf Men Fight for Life. One Drowned; Companion Rescued
A man was drowned and another was rescued, injured, and almost exhausted, after they had abandoned an auxiliary ketch and attempted to swim ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Give Him Another Chance Milantheon Should Wreck 'Em In Handicap Loch Garry's Debut Over 10 FURS
MILANTHEON has cost Fred Williams, and thousands of punters, plenty perspiration and pewter during the Summer months racing. He has failed repeatedly, but if he cannot win Saturday's Rosehill Handicap, then Fred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Out of Wreck Jim Got a Bit Mangelo at Last
JIM BARDEN got a bit out of the wreck at Ascot on Wednesday. Time and again, Jim has staked on Mangelo, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death and Injury in Fierce Rioting Tramcars Wrecked & BURNED Streets Barricaded By Rebels Strike Call Barcelona
ONE man was killed and many injured--several seriously--when rioting broke out at Castellon to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mission Ketch Patteson. Her Second Departure
The newly-built mission ketch Patterson left Sydney on January 19 and was reported to have put in to Jervis Bay, returned to Sydney last week for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Catching the STEAMER
"IT'S all a matter of timing." This is not one of Jack Crawford's tennis hints, but the remark of a hardened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dispute at Darwin. Unloading of Steamer Stopped. DARWIN
A dispute has occurred ab[?] the supply ot trucks for the unloading of coal from the Mungana, and work has ceased temporarily. Heavy rain having delayed the emptying of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tourist Steamer's Radio
Two powerful loud-speakers are being installed by Amalgamated Wireless (A'sia), Ltd., on the Sydney Ferries' tourist steamer Kirrule…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aux. Schooner Fides
THE auxiliary schooner Fides, which has been lying at the Portland Canal wharf since late in 1932, has been towed to her last resting place on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer's Streamers
SAYING GOOD-BYE with streamers as the Ormonde sailed from Port Melbourne. Miss Burne Reid and Miss Dell Armitage on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Skipper Was Deckhand 10 Years' Work in Islands
A TRUE example of initiative is exemplified in Captain Fred Rennels of the missionary schooner McLaren King, who…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lifeboat Service. Splendid Record of Work
The announcement made in our issue of February 9 that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution intended to construct four new motor lifeboats draws…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Katoomba. Easter and Autumn Holiday Cruises
The steamer Katoomba, which leaves Sydney on Easter Saturday, March 31 next, will call at the following ports: Noumea (New…
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