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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

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Steamer Arrangements and Fares

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1906 · page 2

The N.C.S.N. Co. has generously granted the use of the Kyogle to convey people from the Island this afternoon, thus ensuring a certain return to…

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An Appalling Shipwreck. the Loss of the Hilda. a Death Roll of 128

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 1

Full details of the appalling disaster which overtook the steamer Hilda on the 18th ult., in the English Channel; resulting in the sacrifice of 128 lives, are to hand by…

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A Steamer Explodes. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 3

The steamer Carlisle exploded and Band at Saigon. There were several fatalities…

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Steamer Breaks Down. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 3

The N. and H.R.S.N. Coy's steamer Sydney, which left Newcastle for Sydney on Friday night, arrived here yesterday afternoon in tow by the…

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Mail Steamer Subsidies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Mail Steamer Subsidy Commission appointed to inquire into the whole question of the carrying of mails, passengers; and cargo between…

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Macleay Steamer Service

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1906 · page 2

"The Casual" writes in the "Macleay Argus" as follows:--Last week's "Argus" had a paragraph to the effect that the fast and furious pig…

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Mail Steamer Wrecked. Over 100 Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—A terrible shipping disaster has occurred at Vancouver, where the Pacific Coast Company's steamer Valencia went ashore and was totally…

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Steamer Warrego Sunk

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.—The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Warrego sank at her moorings at the company's Kangaroo Point Wharf on Saturday night. For some weeks…

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A Hospital Wrecked. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 5

During a heavy storm at Longreach (Queensland) the local hospital was badly damaged several of the wars being unroofed. Some houses in the…

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Accident to a Steamer. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 5

The steamer Morayshire, bound from Sydney to London, has anchored in Magellan Straits, South America, with her shaft broken…

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Wreck of the Speke

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 9

SYDXBY, Friday.—The British ship Spoke, one of the largest full-rigged ships afloat, has been totally wrecked on the Victorian coast. Of her crew of 26 all but one…

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British Cruiser Ashore. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 3

The British cruiser Donegal is asbore on Tor Bank…

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Wreck of a Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Norwegian steamer Thordis has been driven ashore while entering Port Stephens in a south-east gale. The vessel has been abandoned, and is…

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Wreck at Port Stephens. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 3

The Norwegian steamer Thordis, which left Newcastle on Saturday for Fort Stephens to complete her loading for Manilla, was swept out of her course during a south-east gale…

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Steamer Thordis Wrecked. Lost at Port Stephens

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 8

A strong south-easterly blow was still raging at Fort Stephens on Monday morning, where the steamship Thordis lies on a reef, her bottom pierced by the rocks and her…

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Sunken Treasure. The Wreck of the Elingamite

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 1

"She looked like a bunch of gas pipes run over by a steam roller," said Diver Leigh after hU third descent to the Elingamite wreck, which lies fathoms deep off the Three Kings. "She…

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Wreck of the Thordis

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Later particulars regarding the wreck of the Thordis at Port Stephens show that the vessel arrived at Newcastle and took in a cargo of the…

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A Rumored Wreck. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 3

A sensational rumor was abroad in the city last night to the effect that the long-overdue ship Agincourt, from Newcastle to Eastern ports, had been…

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Fracas on a Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 5

Great excitement prevailed at the Central Wharf, Miller's Point, on Saturday, in consequence of threatening conduct on the part of Chinese firemen on board the…

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A Fortune from a Wreck

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 8

It is pretty generally known that during the last 12 months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds out of the wrecked…

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