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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
245 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 13
A message from an American Atlantic port states that fifteen of the crew of a Swedish steamer have been landed, reporting that a German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An American schooner was shelled and sunk off the New Jersey coast. The crew escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two engineers were severely burnt this morning through the explosion of a gasoline lamp on the motor schooner Wergeland, lying in the harbor. The clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American tank steamer Kellog was submarined off New York Harbor. The crew of 35 were rescued. Seven persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message from an Atlantic port states: A British steamer fought off a U. boat, thirty miles off Sandy Hook (entrance to New York Harbor) for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Washington notifies that the merchant steamer Proteus was sunk in a collision, but the crew were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ever since the bloodthirsty and bewhiskered Bolsheviks came to the top of the turmoil in Russia and, by a counter-revolution, succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dutch steamer Gascondier, laden with grain and flour for the Belgian Relief Fund, has been subjected to a submarine atrocity in territorial waters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Noumea message says the steamer Ballambri has been successfully floated off the reef where she was stranded on October 10 of last year, and has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Spanish steamer Carasa has been torpedoed and six of the crew drowned. This greatly aggravates the Hispano-German situation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reuter's Paris correspondent, telegraphing on Saturday, states that the newspapers in Madrid report the torpedoing of the Spanish steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A clear case of a German submarine attempting to sink a vessel without leaving a trace has been revealed by the French Government (says a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Spanish Government has seized an interned German steamer as compensation from Germany for the sinking of the Spanish steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American steamer Omega was torpedoed and sunk. Twenty-six are missing. The captain was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. E. W. Blackney (Stoker's Siding) recently, spent a holiday on the Clarence River, where many years of his youth were spent (says the "Tweed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported that a steamer was stopped by wireless after leaving Sydney and ordered back into port and searched, when a hundred tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A message from an Atlantic port says a steamer has arrived on fire. The cargo of sugar and tobacco, from Porto Rico (West Indies), was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The Times" says that the Canadian passenger steamer Missanabie was torpedoed while bound west from an English port. She left the States with troops, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bellingen, bound from Nambucca to Sydney with 60,000 feet of sawn timber, after rounding Smoky Cape yesterday afternoon, was leaking very badly and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Galway, Castle outward bound for Durban with 941 persons aboard, including 210 of the crew, 300 women and, children, and 300 invalid soldiers, has been…
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