32 Drowned in Wreck Maiden Voyage's Tragic End London
THIRTY-TWO persons, including two women and two children, have perished in a wreck in the stormy Pentland Firth,…
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Over 20 Lost In Shipwreck Vessel's Maiden Voyage Lifeboat" Did Not Reach The Shore on Rocks London
IT is feared that over 20 lives have been lost at sea off the northeast coast of Scotland. Some reports give the total greater…
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Evidence suggests that the British ship Bramhill (fired at off Cape Tarifa by a Spanish armed trawler and held up while her master was…
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Seasick Passenger (to chief engineer): "Are the ship's boilers likely to blow up?" Chief Engineer: "No likelihood of that happening. Don't you worry yourself with…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Ship Wrecked on Reef. 32 MISSING. Finnish Vessel's Maiden Voyage. LONDON, Jan. 13
In a fierce gale, the new Finnish motor-ship Joanna Thorden (3223 tons) struck Lowther Reef, near Pentland Skerries, off the north-east corner of…
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Thirty--not 32--lives were lost in the wreck of the Joanna Thorden in the Pentland Firth. A lifeboat in which there were…
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TWO died after reaching the shore and 31, including the captain, were lost in the wreck of a Japanese freighter…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The capsize of a lifeboat caused the majority of the 30 drownings which followed the wreck of the Finnish motor-ship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Ship. Thirty Lives Lost. Lifeboat Washed Up. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 14
It is now ascertained that 30 lives were lost when the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden (3223 tons) was wrecked in Pentland Firth, Scotland…
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The Glasgow cargo steamer Diamond (618 tons), sank in the Thames off Green[?]ithe, two minutes after a collision with the Norwegian motor vessel, Herangar (4877 tons).-- Air Mail…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Scow Sunk by Storm. Lifeboat Swainped Four Believed Drowned. Two Washed Ashore. AUCKLAND
Four persons are believed to have lost their lives when a timber-laden scow, the Rangi, foundered off Rakino Island, at the eastern entrance…
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THEIR 87-ton scow wrecked in a storm off the Coromandel Peninsula, six men drifted ten miles in a dinghy…
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Scene of many brilliant social functions during most of last century, and valued once at thousands of pounds, Dangar Castle, Potts Point, was sold…
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PANIC, both in and out of the betting ring, reigned at Canterbury yesterday when the second division of the Maiden Welter came on for decision. First of all jockey Billy Matthews donned the colors of the hot-pot, Arabia, declaring he had been engaged to pilot the grey, but when owner "Bulla" Franklin was appraised of the fact he said that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£300,000 Havoc As Huge Fire Sweeps Over Dock Big Cool Stores Destroyed Steamer Set Alight By Flying Debris Battle to Save Ship Melbourne
DAMAGE tentatively estimated at £300,000 has been done by a huge fire which destroyed most of the Government cool stores at Victoria Dock this afternoon…
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Donald Woodroffe, school boy survivor of the wreck of the scow Rangi on Thursday night, in an interview to-day, related his experiences after the crew took to the ship's boat…
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Damage caused by the cyclone at Kearsley on Saturday. Top: Wreckage of the home of Mr. J. Sheen, in Pokolbin Street, after it had been struck by debris from the Miners' Hall 100 yards away. Below: Another home damaged by the storm in the same…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. -- A long police search has failed to discover the bodies of the two men and a boy of the scow Rangi, wrecked off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mooltan Delayed Ten Hours. Aid for Sick Child. on Passing Steamer. Melbourne
The Royal Mail liner Mooltan brought Christmas mails to Aden nearly 10 hours late, because a child had a stomach-ache. The crew of the Mooltan, which arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£500,000 Fire Fighters Menaced by Explosions Damage to Cool Stores Big Steamer Catches Alight an Inferno Melbourne, Mon
ONE of the most disastrous fires Melbourne has seen swept through the Government final Stores at Victoria Dock…
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