Haiping Lifeboat. Found Near Ballina
A damaged lifeboat has been found on the beach near Broadwater, several miles south of Ballina. The Deputy Director of Navigation and Lighthouses (Captain N. G. Roskruge)…
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Anti-labor Govts. Are Demoralised! Fired on in French Waters! Spanish Government Steamer Protest Looms Paris
SPANISH rebel warships are alleged to have attacked a Government steamer, the Mar Casplo, carrying coal from England for a…
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Five more vessels are reported fixed to load wheat at Australian ports for the United Kingdom or Continent. The first of the vessels reported is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hero of Wreck Is Honored Seaman H. Davies At City Tatt's Life Member
"IT takes a man to ride the sea, and a man to fight the foam ., . Out where the Big Ships Go. . ." No more apt nor complimentary…
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The Consul-General for China (Dr. C. J. Pao), assisted by Captains Vaughan and Stringer, yesterday conducted an inquiry into the loss of the steamer Halping off the…
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MIDNIGHT drinkers of methylated spirits, larrikins, and flower thieves are causing heavy damage to City Council parks…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Counsel for Airlines of Australia today suggested that the Coroner should fly over the area of the Stinson crash to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Arrives Unexpectedly
The French passenger steamer Pierre Loti, from the New Hebrides and Noumea, arrived in Sydney today. The agents, Messageries…
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NEW YORK, Sunday.--Leaking badly, and with her steering gear out of order, the German freighter Borkum sent out SOS signals as she…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destroyer's Race To Disabled Steamer. Flares Seen by Fleet. Wellington (N.z.)
Drifting, with her engines disabled, the Cook Strait steamer Hoimglen (448 tons) summoned the aid of the Australian and New Zealand naval squadrons yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sloop Ashore In Gale All Safe After Ordeal in Surf Old Man Walks 18 Miles for Aid Brisbane
CAST ashore on the outer beach of Stradbroke Island near Jumpin Pin, during the weekend, while on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Ships Dash to Rescue Steamer's S.O.S. From Mid-atlantic New York
THE British ships Zealandic and Tamrao, the French vessel Colomble, and the German steamer Ehrenfels are rushing to the rescue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sloop Wrecked in Storm. Crew Reaches Shore. Man's Journey for Help. Brisbane
While on a voyage up the coast to Brisbane, the Sydney-owned keel sloop Pelican, which is 30 to 40 feet in length, encountered bad weather and very…
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To run a boat at 6 a.m. from Fig Tree to the Quay would cost £240 a year Sydney Ferries, Ltd., advised Hunter's Hill Council last night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Six Drowned Tragic Irony of Shipwreck. Captain's Previous Escape. LONDON, April 5
After escaping death six months ago in a collision which sank his ship Pine at the mouth of Carlingford Lough, Ireland, Captain Campbell, with his…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wreck of Pelican. Rescuers Reach Crew. BRISBANE
Trivelling on horseback through miles of tough scrub country across Stradbroke Island, a police rescue party from Dunwich to-day reached the crew of the wrecked sloop Pelican,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Six Drowned in Wreck Dublin
SIX persons were drowned when two vessels collided at Carlingford Lough, at Newry. Six months ago the captain of one of the vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tasman Cyclone. Lumber Steamer Delayed
The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night that a severe cyclone was operating over the Central Tatiman yesterday. At 3 p.m., its centre was to the south of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Batch Covering Blown Up Fire In Cargo Of German Steamer ADELAIDE
A hatch covering was blown 25ft. into the air when a fire broke out among the inflammable cargo on the German steamer Aller during the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →An Unusual Shipwreck
THE recent cyclone in North Queensland, during which two steamers were compelled to send out "S.O.S." messages for help to be towed into port, recalls that one…
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