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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1910

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Sailing Ship Ashore

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—The British ship Celtic Chief in on the rocks at Honolulu. The vessel went ashore while attempting to enter in rough weather…

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A Steamer Wrecked. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 3

The Union S.S. Co.'s steamer Waikare, with 150 excursionists on board for the West Coast Sounds, struck a rock and the stokehold filled with…

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Excursion Steamer Stranded

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Union Coy's, steamer Waikare with 140 excursionists, bound to the West Coast. Sounds, struck a rock, as the result of which the stoke…

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The Waikare Wreck. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

The official report on the wreck of the Union S.S. Co.'s excursion steamer Waikare states, according to the information gleaned, that the vessel…

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The Steamer Burringbar. A New Clarence Trader

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 2

[?]rival of the North Coast Co's [?]amer Burringbar on her maiden [?] to the Clarnce created a great [?] interest, and a good deal of…

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The Wrecked Ourimbah

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The report of the inquiry into the loss of the Ourimbah says the Court considered that Captain Stewart was guilty of wrongful default…

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Wreck of the Waikare

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—An official report upon the wreck in Dusky Sound of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Waikare on Tuesday has been obtained, the…

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The Wrecked Ourimbah

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 3

The report of the inquiry into the loss of the Ourimbah says the Court considered that Captain Stewart was guilty of wrongful default. It blamed…

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The Waikare Wreck

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Marine Court which sat at Wellington, (N.Z.), regarding the wreck of the Waikare at Dusky Sound found that all due care had been…

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A Steamer Damaged. SYDNEY, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 3

An examination of the steamer Kaipata at Auckland shows a hole live feet long under her bow. Thirty thousand carcases of mutton, valued…

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Steamer Kaipara Wrecked

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Kaipara, the first of the series of direct liners from Auckland to London, struck a rock in the Rangitoto Channel an hour…

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The Waikare Wreck. Details of the Disaster

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 7

Files from New Zealand contain details of the wreck of the Union steamer Waikare, which struck an uncharted rock in Dusky Sound and foundered a few days…

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A Steamer's Cargo Afire. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 5

The fire discovered in the coal bunkers of the liner Commomwealth at Fremantle is being gradually, over-come. The vessel will probably be…

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A Missing Steamer. LONDON, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 5

The steamer Loodiana, which left Mauritius for Colombo on January 10, with 80 passengers aboard, is reported to be missing…

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Wreckage Sighted

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—When the steamer Tomoana, which arrived at Melbourne yesterday, was about 500 miles from the Cape, in the track of the Agulhas…

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Schooner Dismasted. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 3

The schooner Australia, bound from the Bellinger River to Sydney, was sighted at Smoky Cape with her main mast carried away…

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A New Steamer. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 3

The N.C.S.N. Co's. new steamer Minimbah, bound from the Clyde, to Sydney, left Colombo yesterday for this port. She is intended for the North Coast trade…

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Register of Wrecks

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 2

The Department of Navigation's register of wrecks within the jurisdiction of New South Wales during 1909 has been gazetted as follows:--Jan…

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A Tug Wrecked. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 3

The tug Port Jackson, while on a voyage from Sydney to Newcastle, broke down on Saturday night and drifted ashore five miles south of…

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Disabled Steamer Sighted. May be the Waratah

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The whaling schooner Ulva has reported at Durban that she sighted, during a snowstorm on Nov. 23, a large two-funneled steamer under…

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