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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

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Latest Cables. Oil Steamer on Fire. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 21 December 1908 · page 5

The oil steamer Kaloma, bound from America to china, caught fire in the harbor at Singapore. As the fire was endangering 80,000…

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Holiday River Steamer Arrangements

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1908 · page 4

Those desirous of visiting the heads to-morrow or Saturday will find full Particulars of the various steamers movements announced in our business…

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The Ururoa Ashore

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 2

The three-masted scow Uroron, coal-laden from Newcastle, for Wanganui, went ashore on the Wanganui Beach, about a mile south of the entrance to the port. The vessel…

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Cotton Steamer Wracked

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 9

The steamer Grulla, with 22,000 bales of cotton from Galveston (U.S.), bound to Liverpool, has been totally wreeked at Mizzenhead, near Cork, in a fog…

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Frederick Davis Wreck

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 5

Information reached Ulmarra on Saturday to the effect that the well-known Richmond River steamer Frederick Davis had foundered off Wooll Wooll River on Saturday, but that all hands…

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