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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 43
Cad Wrecks Three Joyous Lives Bigamist Gaoled for a Year Plausible Scoundrel
WRECKER of three lives, plausible scoundrel, Horace Martin Waller, 22, who one day during the week was sentenced to 12 months' gaol for his blackguardly acts, can consider himself lucky to have escaped with such a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Sir Philip Gibbs Surveys Troubled France Last Bulwark of Liberty in Peril Dangerous Passions May Wreck Nation Germany on Watch Hoping for Ruin Trends Point to War (Copyright by "The Sunday Sun" and N.a.n.a.) Paris
The Paris riots have greatly perturbed the nations friendly to France. They believe the event may overthrow her strength and stability, which are the chief guarantees of European peace…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Plane Wrecked. Dive Into River. Wo Airmen Drowned
Two airmen were drowned when their 'plane crashed from a height of 200 feet into Cook's River, a mile south of Mascot Aerodrome, early on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sequel to Wreck of Steamer Compensation For Loss of Son Award of £360
ARISING out of the loss, of the co11ier Christina Fraser, Minnie Violet Astell Collerson, of Balmain Road, Leichhardt,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Vedic. Sold for Breaking-up Purposes
The twin-screw passenger and cargo steamer Vedic, built and engined by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Belfast, in 1918, and owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hastening Ashore
Scene When lite Lurline Denned to-day.--Tourists lost no time in coming ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mission Ketch. Rudder Lost at Sea. Returning to Sydney for Repairs. NEWCASTLE
When about 40 miles north-east of the Middleton Reef on Wednesday, the rudder stock of the Melanesian Mission ketch Patteson carried away, and the vessel was sailed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Steamer Sinks After Collision in Fog. LONDON, Feb. 13
"She must have sunk like a stone," stated the master of the British steamer Daitford (4076 tons) in a wireless message after colliding in a fog in the Channel with the Greek…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Yangtze Disaster. 400 Chinese Drowned. Steamer Strikes Sandbar. Shanghai, Feb. 13
Hankow messages report the third river disaster on the Yangtze within a few months Four hundred Chinese were drowned when the Chinese river steamer Fuyuen capsized and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →CLOUDBURST In Bathurst District. Bridge Wrecked
A cloudburst at Glanmire, eight miles east of Bathurst, yesterday evening swept away a bridge on the main highway to Sydney and caused a washaway on the Bathurst-O'Connel…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Landlubber's Sea Thrill In Ketch
PUT a landsman on a 12-ton ketch with a shattered rudder in a terrific southerly gale 600 miles from land, and you could…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mission Ketch Patteson Returns to Port
Four days after leaving Sydney for Vila, the ketch lost her rudder, and travelled 600 miles with the aid of a jury rudder. Thankful to be safe in port again. From left:…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Maclaren King. Work of Mission Schooner
Captain F. C. Rennels, master of the auxiliary schooner Maclaren King, which carries malls and stores to Anglican mission stations on the north-east coast of Papua,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disabled Ketch Steered by Sweeps. Long Voyage Without Rudder
With two large sweeps rigged on either side, the Melanesian Mission ketch Patteson arrived in port yesterday afternoon after a voyage of more than 600 miles without a rudder…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Trip on a Steamer
"Oliver" (Legume).—I have two not greenleeks. One of them dad got while he was at work. He threw a stone up in a tree and the greenleek flew into it and felt to the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Deep-sea Salvage. Two Interesting Wrecks to be Recovered
The surprising success of Italian Artiglio salvage experts in obtaining gold from the Egypt has given encouragement to embark upon two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saved Ketch
Five Palm Beach lifesavers who were training in a surf boat in Rushcutter's Bay last night saved the Glenavr, a 35-foot auxiliary ketch,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maclaren King. Papuan Mission Schooner
Among the passengers by the Macdhui, which arrived in Sydney on Wednesday. last, was Captain F. C. Rennels, master of the Auxiliary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Vessels Wrecked in Gale (The [?] ISTANBUL, Thurs
A VIOLENT gale and snowstorm wrecked many vessels in the Black Sea and interrupted land and sea…
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