Lifeboat Capsize
A line was rushed out to six Bondi surf live-savers after their boat capsized in the heavy sea 60 yards out on Saturday. The members of the…
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Pilot Steamer Unable to Save Drowning Men
The pilol steamer Captain Cook was called to the assistance of the fishing party whose launch was swept on to the rocks beneath North Point, near North Head, yesterday, but was unable to assist the men, six of whom were drowned. Two of the three survivors of the fishing party are shown in Manly hospital—at left, James Powney, of Maroubra, and Alfred O'Brien, of Barcom-avenue, Darlinghurst. Other pictures appear on the illustrations page…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sudden Death on Steamer Woman Had Said "I Am Good-oh"
"I am good-oh," replied Mrs. Sarah Purcell, 62, a widow, of Laidley. Queensland, as she lay in her bunk on the interstate steamer Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Six Men Drowned in Launch Disaster. Three Saved After Heroic Fight. Launch Dashed on Rocks. Pilot Steamer in Danger in Attempt to Give Aid. Graphic Stories Told by Survivors
Six men were drowned and three others were saved only after desperate efforts by rescuers when the 32-foot launch Voyager was wrecked at the foot of the cliffs between North Head and Blue Fish Point yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Six Members of Fishing Party Drowned When Launch Is Wrecked on Rocks Near North Head
Six men lost their lives when the launch which they occupied was smashed on the rocks beneath North Point yesterday. Blue Fish Point is shown in the distance. The launch was wrecked just between it and the first point in the picture…
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GOSFORD, Monday.--The engine of a 20ft. launch broke down near the entrance to Broken Bay late yesterday afternoon, and the craft, tossed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to the Editor What Is The Lifeboat For?
AFTER reading of the appalling disaster which occurred on Sunday off North Head, and ended in the loss of six valuable lives, I would like to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victims of Launch Wreck
MR. T. GRAY. MR. T. ROBINSON. MR. J. E. LAVERY. MR. A. JOHNSON…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →No Marine Inquiry Into Wreck
NO inquiry will be held by the Maritime Services Board into the launch disaster off North Head on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Missing Ketch Found at Wharf Melbourne
While Mr. Arthur Raymond Tyrer, owner of the missing 58ft. auxiliary ketch, Victorian, searched the bay from an aeroplane yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Reef of Wrecks Voyage of the Schooner Wanderer to the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, April, 1936—
FIVE hundred miles to the north-east of Sydney lie two coral atolls, known as the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs. Oval in shape, each with a diameter of about four miles, they enclose…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ketch Missing From Moorings Search by 'Plane, Car, and Launch Melbourne
MYSTERY surrounds the disappearance last night of a 50-foot ketch, which was left by its owner, Mr. Raymond Tyrer, of Hawthorn,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bernard O'Reilly: Bush Hero—Australian Seals—The Antill Family In This Issue: the Reefs of Wrecks Stirring Cruise of the Wanderer—1936
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Ketch Found Melbourne
The ketch Victory, the absence of which from Appleton Dock, in the Yarra, on Monday night led to worry and expense, was found this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Never Used COST £300 a Year for 20 Years Needed for "Big Wrecks," Is Claim
FOR more than 20 years a lifeboat has been lying at Watson's Bay, costing about £300 a year, but never used…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Steamer Bombed London
THE Captain of the French cargo steamer Djebel Antar, outward-- bound from Marseilles, has wirelessed that the vessel was bombed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oldest Orang-outang in Captivity—arms-bearing Steamer Captured by Rebels—sweden's Baby Princess
Peter, the orang-outang: at Taronga Park, is believed to be the oldest of his species in captivity. The swelling beneath his chin is peculiar to aged orang-outangs…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shipping to Be Protected Kakariki Wreck MELBOURNE
In order to protect shipping in Port Philip Bay from possible collision with the sunken Kakariki, a siren will be operated from the wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Wreck. Lifeboat Could Not be Used. Danger to Crew
The Harbourmaster (Captain Hill) said yesterday that if the lifeboat, Alice Rawson, had approached the treacherous rocks below North Head…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Desecration of Graves Wrecked Stinson "Souvenirs" BRISBANE
Immediate action to guard against any possible wilful damage to the graves of the four victims of the Stinson crash in the MacPherson…
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