Lives Are Being Wrecked
“I knew one man who went into the B.H.P.’s galvanising plant, and after sis months I did not recognise him…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
846 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 43
Net Locates Wreckage Chart Find Off Barrenjoey Vessel Unknown
AN unidentified wreck has been located, and a roll of charts recovered, 3½ miles east of Barrenjoey…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ketch Is Taken in Tow Engine Fails Off Broken Bay
With its engine disabled, the auxiliary ketch Jacqueline was towed from near Broken Bay to Sydney by the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Message to Be Bruadcast From Wreck 300 Feet Below Aftermath to World's Foulest Tragedy
The sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, was called "The World's Greatest and Foulest Tragedy." After 22 years it has its conclusion—…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Dramatic Story Told of Voyager Wreck Coroner's Tribute to Gallantry "Crews Concerned Did All That Was Possible" How Rockets Missed
A TRIBUTE to the gallantry of all parties who went to the assistance of the crew of the wrecked Voyager, and exoneration of the Captain Cook's master from any blame were contained in the finding…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Supposed Wreck Is Found
NO arrangements have yet been made to investigate a report made by a Rose Bay fisherman that he had located a supposed wreck 3½…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Top Deck Of Bus Wrecked By An Awning
A STEEL shop awning cut many feet into the fabric of the top deck of an empty double-decker bus which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charts May Be From Haiping Wreck
CHARTS dragged up in a fishermen's net near Barrenjoey. may I belong to the Haiping. The Haiping was abandoned off the coast of Queensland last month. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disabled Ketch
The North Coast steamer Ulmarra yesterday towed the ketch Jacqueline into the harbour from Broken Bay. The Jacqueline, which was being brought to Sydney by Mr. R. J…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sea Tragedy. Steamer Captain Rescues Barque's Crew. Then Collapses and Dies. London, April 28
After saving the crew of the Swedish barque C. B. Pedersen, the captain of the steamer Chagres (Commander Morgan) died of a heart attack…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Kakariki Wreck Union S.S. Co. Abandon Salvage
The Union Steamship Co. of N.Z., Ltd., has abandoned the salvaging of the steamer Kakariki, which sunk near the entrance to the Yarra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Wreck. Coroner's Inquiry. Rescuers' Gallantry Praised
A statement that the rope line which was brought from the pilot steamer Captain Cook to the launch Voyager, which foundered with the loss of six…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Families Destitute In Fire Rescuers Neglected Nothing Coroner's View of Launch Wreck
EVERYTHING possible was done to save the victims of the wreck of the launch Voyager on March 7…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck Bounced to Surface Raising Battleship Was Quick Job LONDON
The German 25,000-ton battleship Friedrich der Grosse, which was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, has been raised from a depth of 23…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wreckage Identified
Wreckage found off Maroubra, portion of which was brought into port by the Maritime Services Board tug Cecil Rhodes, was identified as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mystery Ships. Torres Strait Wrecks
Torres Strait, lonely, beautiful, and almost unknown, is the graveyard of ships of all nations. They rot among the coral and the sand in that…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mungana Was Not a Wreck
BRISBANE, Friday.--Brisbane Full Court today unanimously decided that the steamer Mungana was not a wreck on June 21 last, after she broke her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fishermen Find Man's Body Drowned in Wreck in Botany Bay
The body of Walter Currell, 23, of Glenbrook, who, with another man ancd a youth, was drowned last Saturday in a launch wreck at Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winning Crew Comes Ashore
The winning Sydney Church of England Grammar School at the landingstage after the race. A. D. Ferguson (the stroke), standing, collapsed shortly afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Steamer Ploughs Into Pier MELBOURNE,Sunday
Ploughing into Williamstown pier on Saturday night, the interstate vessel Aroona cut the structure in halves and left several men on the…
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