Launch Drifting Off Heads Pilot Steamer Was Not Needed
In response to distress signals sent out by the occupants of a 30-foot launch which was drifting about 250 years off the Cap, near…
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Schooner Auctioned
The three - masted auxiliary schooner Isabel was offered for sale at auction by Fraser Uther and Co. Limited, yesterday. The…
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The three-masted schooner Isabel, which, with Mr. W. H. Weeks as captain, made an exciting and prolonged voyage from England across…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schooner Offer Refused
The offer of £200 at auction for the schooner Isobel has been refused. Private negotiations are still proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Schooner Isabel. Offered at Auction
Fraser, Uther & Co. offered at auction yesterday the small schooner Isabel and the highest bid was £200. The auctioneers decided to refer the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miniature Steamer
This model steamer, built by Mr. M. Colpitt, of Neutral Bay, and on exhibition at Bolton's Neutral Bay Furniture Store, is only 5½ feet long, with a beam of 12 inches and a depth of 18 inches. The hull is made of sheet galvanised iron and the color scheme is red, white and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schooner Isabel Passed In for Private Sale
The schooner Isabel, which has been lying in Double Bay since her arrival from South America, was offered for sale by auction yesterday. A large number of people attended…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Crashed Down Hold Shipwright Killed on Steamer
Overbalancing on the edge of a held on the steamer Orungal, at No. 2 Lime Street wharf, yesterday, Charles Cowie, 57, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destroyed by Fire. Inquiry re Steamer Currumbene
An inquiry was held on Monday last at Raymond Terrace into the cause of the burning of the steamer Currumbene at Seaham on January 9…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch for New Hebrides
For the third time the auxiliary mission ketch Patteson is to set out to-morrow to try and reach the New Hebrides…
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Two elephants that arrived yesterday by the Nieuw Zeeland for a circus were to have come down from Singapore by the Nieuw Holland a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ketch Patteson To Set Out Again for New Hebrides
The mission ketch Patteson which was recently forced to make a 600-mile voyage with a disabled rudder, will sail again for the New Hebiides to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Auburn Man on Sinking Vessel Fight to Save Trawler 11th Shipwreck in 35 YEARS
An Auburn returned soldier, Mr. John Adlam, of Sheffield-street, was one of the rescued crew of the fishing vessel Unique, which foundered about seven miles off Shoalhaven Right on Sunday. Interviewed, he told a graphic story of a two-hour struggle to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Board of Trade Shield. Most Meritorious Wreck Service
The Cairnburg, Fraserburgh, and Rattray (Aberdeenshire) life-saving brigades have jointly been awarded the Board of Trade shield for the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aborigines Rescue Whites Wreck Caledon Bay Brought Food Trepang Crew Darwin
CALEDON BAY aborigines are graphically portrayed in a new role--that of succorers of shipwrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Victorian Unity Plan Is Torpedoed T.B. Votes Used To Wreck Conference Proposals Vic. Delegates Stand For Rank & File Further Parley To-day Heated Session
THE first tangible step towards unity was shattered at the Interstate Labor Conference yesterday when six T.B. votes were cast into a division to defeat a motion sponsored by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Taxi-cab Wrecked
Crashing into a post in Murray Street, Pyrmont, last evening, a taxicab was almost completely wrecked. Later a man, whom police said was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mission Ketch Patteson
Damage to the craft having been repaired, the mission ketch Patteson will leave the yards of Mr. Lars Halvorsen at Neutral Bay to-day for Vila,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collier Ashore Bealiba Hard and Fast on Pelican Point
ASHORE on Pelican Point, near Norah Head, the well-known collier, Bealiba, has her forward hold badly damaged, and the pumps are unable to cope with the rush of water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →White Men Living with Aborigines. Rescue From Wrecked Lugger. Darwin
The wreck of a lugger carrying Messrs. Grey and Wright, trepangers, is described in a message which has been received from Rev. H. E. Warren, at Caledon Bay. The party…
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