Plane Is Hired To Seek Wreck Lost Tow in Tempest?
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --The manager of the Melbourne agents for the Paringa, Mr. C. R. Strangward,…
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Marist Mission In Northern Solomons. Loss of Schooner
The following account of the disaster which took place off the coast of Bougainville, on November 23, comes from Very Rev. Father Boch, S.M., who, during the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Cape York will leave Williamstown tomorrow for the south-west coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Bodies Recovered From Airliner Crash Trapped Only 4 Got Out Pilot's Ordeal Search for Wreck Alexandria
THE bodies of two of the nine passengers lost in the crash of the Imperial Airways' flying-boat, City of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search Commences For Wreckage of Paringa. MELBOURNE
The disappearance of the steamer Paringa off the Victorian coast promises to become another unsolved mystery of the sea. The Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Cape…
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It had been intended that divers should recover the bodies and mails from the wreck of the City of Khartoum to-day, but bad weather…
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Following a flight from Melbourne to King Island yesterday, Mr. V. Gatenby reported to the Navigation Department to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--To conduct a search of the south-east coast of Victoria for the missing steamer Paringa, the lighthouse steamer Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Paringa Officially Regarded As Lost. Evidence for Chinese Inquiry. MELBOURNE
It now seems certain that the steamer Paringa foundered in a storm off the Victorian coast on or about the night of December 26…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fast Launch Meets Steamer at Sea. Parcel Recovered From Water. Brisbane
When the steamer Changte arrived in Brisbane to-day from the East, the master (Captain Gambrill) reported to the Collector of Customs (Mr. R. B. Curd) that a fast launch…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →No Food Wrecked Launch Party Cairns (Q.)
Following the swamping of their launch Frolic off Palmer's Point, the owner, J. Adler, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, and two small children returned…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- About 160 lb. of mail, comprising one bag each for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Adelaide, Perth, and Darwin, was…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Jackie O'Brien (11.8), Victorian middleweight champion, was knocked out in two rounds by Tony Rock (11.0), the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Real Bargain 20-Guinea Speedster Wrecks Record ADELAIDE
CAN Cluniac gallop! Well, after slipping over six furlongs to-day at Morphetville in the smart time of 1.10¾ cracking the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Cable Steamer Struck Rock Officers Reach Sydney
THEIR vessel, the steamer Cable, haying been wrecked on an uncharted rock near Saigon, a few weeks ago, several…
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Efforts to save the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's cable-laying ship, the Cable, which was wrecked off the China coast last October, were described by Captain B. G…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in Lifeboat. Alarm Given by Woman
A fire broke out in the starboard middle lifeboat on the German motor ship Rendsburg, moored at No. 9 wharf, Walsh Bay, late yesterday afternoon. Looking from a window…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →From Missing Ship? Hatch Covers Ashore in Victoria
Twenty steamer hatch covers have been washed up on Bream Beach, on the Victorian coast, but it is not known whether they are from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hatch Boards Drift Ashore Search for Paringa Continues Melbourne
The Victorian Navigation authorities are giving attention to the discovery of 20 hatch-cover planks from a ship at Bream…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Killed on Steamer Four Others Injured in Ulysses Accident London
Three members of the crew were killed and four injured in an explosion aboard the steamer Ulysses, which left Liverpool for Brisbane yesterday…
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