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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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Steamer Collision

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 3

LONDON, SUNDAY.— The White Star liner Medic collided with the steamer Turibo in the English Channel. The Turibo was seriously damaged…

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Fire on a Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 4

Copra on the steamer Varzirs, of the German-Australian line, berthed at Woolloomooloo, took fire shortly after 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. The outbreak occurred…

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The Kiaora Wreck

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 5

WELLINGTON, Sunday.—Latest advices concerning the wreck of the steamer Kiaora state that all the crew except the captain are saved. The first…

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A Steamer Damaged. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1907 · page 3

The steamer Everton Grange, from Liverpool bound for Australia, shrunk some sunken rocks near Capetown and has sustained extensive Ja[?]ge,…

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The Steamer Whistling Question. (To the Editor of the "Argus")

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1907 · page 4

Sir, -- I have read some letters in [?] signing himself "Lower Clarencer" complaining of the discontinuance of the evening…

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Oil Steamer on Fire

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 1

The steamer Westgate arrived at Plymouth on May 3 having on board 48 of the crew of the steamer Silverlip, which was…

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A Ketch Wrecked. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 5

The captain of the Allowrie, the Illawarra trader, reports having sighted a ketch with her hall submerged, off Botany, Only her mainmast was…

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A Disastrous Wreck. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 5

The steamer Santiago has been wrecked off the coast of Chili. One passenger and one officer were saved, but three passengers and the officers…

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A Ketch Founders off Botany

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sensational news was brought to Sydney yesterday to the offect that a ketch unknown had foundered off Botany, but that thnre were no signs…

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H. M: S. Pyramus Ashore. Crashed on a Coral Reef

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes received a telegram yesterday to the effect, that the cruisen Pyramus, with Lord Northcote and suite on…

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The Steamer Whistling Question. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 4

Sir, -- In your issue of the 24th ultimo a writer, signing himself "Another Lower Clarenceite," states that he has read some letters signed by…

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A Total Wreck. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 5

The French barque Marguerite Mirabeaud, which went ashore some months ago at Akatore (N.Z.) has been completely smashed up…

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A Search for Wreckage. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 5

The pilot steamer; Captain Cook, left the Harbor early this morning to search off Wollongong for the wreckage reported by the steamer…

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Meat Famine on a Steamer

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 2

Captain Archer, of the Tomki, tells a rather humorous talc about a meat famine while locked out of the Richmond River for three days last week…

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A Fatal Wreck. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 3

A private cable received at Auckland reports the wreck of the barque Viking, which left Auckland on May 2nd for New York with a cargo of…

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Another Steamer Wrecked. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 July 1907 · page 3

The steamer Resolute, bound from Kiama to Sydney with blue metal on board, ran onto the reef at Bellambi on Friday night, and…

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A Hopeless Wreck. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 July 1907 · page 3

There is now little hope of saving the steamer Nithsdale, which went ashore at the mouth of the River Indus, India…

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Do They Wreck Ships ?

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 July 1907 · page 2

Not long ago the captain of a great ocean liner reported that several large meteoric stones fell into the sea near his ship, their contact with…

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Steamer Resolute Ashore

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 5

The steamer Resolute, a regular trader with metal between Kiama and Sydney, struck the outer edge of the Bellambi Reef on Friday night. With the rising tide, the…

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Barque Woollahra Wrecked

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday.—The barque Woollahra, which left Welligton yesterday for Sydney via kaipara, went ashore at Cape Terawhiti, twenty miles from the…

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