Australian Steamer Sunk. One Life Lost. London
The steamer Barunga has been sunk while bound for Australia. There was one casualty. AN EX-GERMAN…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
245 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 13
The U-boats. Spanish Steamer Torpedoed. Spanish Minister Aboard. London
Reuter's Athens correspondent states that a Spanish steamer, with the Spanish Minister to Greece aboard, while en route for Spain, was torpedoed by German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greatest Effort Fails. the Crown Prince's Wrecked Hopes. London
Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters telegraphed on Wednesday:-- The enemy's attack on Monday was in length of front, and Probably also in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schooner in Trial Bay
The three-masted auxiliary American schooner, The Gilbert Island, of 245 tons register, entered Trial Bay on Wednesday, night, where she is at present anchored…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Steamer Sunk. Brisbane
The Premier has received a cable message from the Agent-General announcing that one of the Queensland steamers which sailed on July 7, carrying a large quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Running Altered
The secretary of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce has received the following communication from the managing director of the North Coast Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mercantile Cruiser Sunk. a Destroyer Ashore
The Admiralty report that the armed mercantile cruiser Marmora was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on July 23. Ten of the crew are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Steamer Attacked. Off American Coast. Vancouver
A message from New York says: It is reported that a German submarine attacked a British steamer off the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Treachery. Italian Steamer Sunk. by Concealed Internal Bomb. New York
The Italian steamer Garibaldi has sunk after an explosion, off the Brazilian coast. Six persons are dead. The explosion was due to a dynamite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked in a Fog. Japanese Mail Steamer. One Hundred Passengers on Board. Vancouver
The Japanese steamer Canada Maru, inward bound with a hundred passengers on board, was wrecked, during a fog, on Cape Flattery. Salvage vessels are rescuing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Cables. (Messages received, except where otherwise specified, through the Australian Cables Association.) Jap Liner Wrecked. Passengers Saved. Vancouver
A message from a Pacific port states: The Japanese liner, Canada Maru, went ashore on a reef during a dense fog. Water poured into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lumber Schooner Torpedoed. Vancouver
A submarine torpedoed a lumber schooner in the Bay of Fundy. The crew of nine were landed at Grandmanan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Schooner Sunk. the Food Stolen. Vancouver, Saturday Night
A message from an Atlantic port says: A submarine sank a lumber schooner off the New Brunswick coast and stole it's provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Gutted. Auckland
The steamer Defender which caught fire in Wellington Harbor was beached on a small islet where she was allowed to burn out. Owing to the rapidity with which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tank Steamer Sunk. Thirteen Persons Missing. Washington
There are 30 survivors from the tank steamer Jennings which was submarined on Sunday on the Virginian coast who have reached Norfolk. The captain and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bigger Prey for the Wolves. Large Steamer Preferred to Fishing Boat. Vancouver
A message from a Canadian Atlantic port says: A U. boat was chasing an auxiliary fishing craft when a large steamer appeared on the horizon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Zeppelin Wrecked. in Futile Air Raid. London, Tuesday Night
A Zeppelin was wrecked in the air raid on England. (Presumably the air raid referred to is the fiasco on Monday night.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U-boats. Brazilian Torpedoed Steamer
Reuter's Madrid correspondent report that the captain and 17 of the crew of the Brazilian steamer Acesis, formerly German, which was submarined, landed at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hun Pirates. American Steamer Sunk. Eighteen Missing. Vancouver, Thursday Night
A message from New York says: An American steamer of three thousand tons was submarined off Cape, Hatteras. One boat load of eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Vessel Sunk. Crew's Fate Unknown. Cable Steamer Torpedoed. Vancouver, Monday Night
German submarines have sunk a British steamer a hundred miles east of Nantucket. The crew's fate is unknown…
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