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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918

155 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 8

Submarine Australian Bound Steamer Sunk. London, Thursday morning

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 3

An Athens message states that a Spanish steamer carrying Devega, a Spanish Minister, to Grecce, was submarined, although Germany had been…

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Schooner Afire. Sixteen Days in Open Boat

Leader · Monday 29 July 1918 · page 3

Details of the burning of the five-masted schooner Cresent, while on a voyage from Sydney to San Francisco last month, have reached Melbourne…

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Big Steamer Sunk Internal Explosion. Dynamite Bomb Concealed. New York, Monday Night

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 2

The Italian steamer Garibaldi, of 5181 tons, has been sunk off the Brazilian coast as the result of an explosion…

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Japanese Steamer Wrecked VANCOUVER

National Advocate · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 2

The Japanese steamer Vanada Maru, inward bound with 100 passengers, was wrecked in a fog off Cape Flattery The salvage vessel is rescuing…

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Japanese Liner Ashore in the Pacific. New York, Thursday Night

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 2

A message from a Pacific port states that the Japanese liner Canada Mani has gone ashore at Reed in a dense fog. Water poured into the…

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Submarines Off Canadian Coast. Lumber Schooner Torpedoed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 August 1918 · page 2

An enemy submarine torpedoed a lumber schooner in the Bay of Gundy, between Nova Scotra and New Brunswick. The crew were all landed safely…

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Bazilian Steamer Submarined Madrid

National Advocate · Thursday 8 August 1918 · page 2

Seventeen of the crewe of the Brazilian steamer Aiero formerly German which was submarined, have landed. Two rafts with 44 men are missing…

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Submarines Swedish Steamer Sunk. New York, Monday Night

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 13 August 1918 · page 2

Fifteen members of the Swedish steamer Sydland have been landed. They reported that a German submarine sank the vessel. Another 15…

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Montdidier More Hunnish Wrath. Notable Buildings Wrecked Paris, Monday Night

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 13 August 1918 · page 2

The Germans, on evacuating Montdidier, left little more than a mass of wreckage. The Palais de Justice was devastated, and the ancient tapestry…

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Submarine Sunk Battle with British Steamer New York, Tuesday Night

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 14 August 1918 · page 2

An incoming British merchantman claims to have sunk a German submarine off the coast in a brief battle. A French transport of 3000 tons has…

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Schooner Wrecked Crew Landed. Wellington N.Z.

National Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1918 · page 2

The copra schooner, A. W. Baxter, from San Francisco has been totally wrecked on a reef at Fiji. The crew landed in two boats…

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Shelled and Sunk an American Schooner. on the New Jersey Coast. the Crew Escaped. London, Thursday night

The Bathurst Times · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 2

An American schooner was shelled and sunk on the New Jersey Coast. The crew escaped…

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Torpedoed Steamer Captain Taken Prisoner. New York, Friday Night

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 17 August 1918 · page 2

Captain Peter Evans of a British steamer that was torpedoed and sunk off Nantucket, has been hold prisoner on the U-boat…

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Transport Sunk. 41[?] Missing. a Second Steamer Lost

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 19 August 1918 · page 4

An urgent telegram from [?] that the transport [?] was torpedoed. Four hundred and forty-eight are…

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Merchant Steamer Lost. Vancouver

National Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1918 · page 2

A Wellington report states that the merchant steamer Proteux has been sunk in a collision and the crew rescued…

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The Sea Pirates More Murders. Delgian Relief Steamer Cunk. Dutch Sailors Killed. London

National Advocate · Friday 23 August 1918 · page 2

The Dutch steamer Gascomier, en route to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain for the Belgian Relief Committee, was fired on without warming by…

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Lost French Transport and Steamer. 10 Micoino. Paris

National Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1918 · page 2

The Messageries Maritime liner Polynessien (6363 tins), from Bezertn to Salonika, with Serbian troops on board, was mined on August 19. The…

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Defying Spain. Another Steamer Sunk. Six of the Crew Drowned

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 August 1918 · page 15

The Spanish steamer Carasa has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Six of the crew were drowned…

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First Commonwealth Schooner

The Bathurst Times · Friday 30 August 1918 · page 4

The motor schooner Cethana, the first of the Commonwealth owned schooners to leave the Pacific coast, entered Sydney Heads yesterday…

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Spanish Steamer Torpedoed London

National Advocate · Friday 30 August 1918 · page 2

The Spanish steamer Carasa has been torpedoed. Six of the crew were drowned. This will seriously aggravate the Kispino-German situation…

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