Jap. Shipping Disasters. Two Vessels Ashore. Vancouver
A Seattle message says: According to a wireless message, the Japanese steamers Yomei Maru and Shinbu Maru have grounded on the rocks…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919
276 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 14
Mataram Hits a Rock. the Steamer Damaged. Water in No.1 Hold. Brisbane
Shortly after, eight o clock this morning the steamer Mataram, which was en route to Sydney from Singapore, via ports, was rounding Bulimba Point…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Leaking Badly. Adelaide
The steamer Alexander Woermann returned to Adelaide leaking badly. A considerable quantity of cargo was destroyed by salt water. The vessel was bound…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Sink a Steamer. Wrong Valve Removed. Brisbane
A deliberate attempt was made to sink John Burke's, Ltd., steamer Porpoise at the company's wharf, South Brisbane, between 10.30 on Friday night and daylight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Schooner Rammed. Seven Lives Lost. Vancouver
A Halifax message states that the schooner Francis A. was rammed and sunk by the steamer Lordownshire. Seven lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Cables. French Express Wrecked. 10 KILLED, 20 Wounded. Irish Soldiers' Fine Work. Paris, Monday Night
An express bound for Paris was derailed near Pau and collided with a goods train. The passengers included 33 officers and 24 men of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Wrecked. Captain and Crew Safe. Melbourne
News was received in Melbourne that the steamer Rostrevor, 384 tons, went ashore between Cape Everard and Gabo on a sandy beach, and became a total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Camira Strikes a Rock. and Returns to Brisbane. Steamer Leaking Badly. Brisbane
The Adelaide Company's steamer Camira, on route from Newcastle to Mackay, Bowen, and Townsville, with about 2500 tons of general cargo, struck Flat Rock,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Shipping Wrecked Off Gabo Island. Privations of the Crew
The steamer Rostrevor, 384 tons, bound from Hobart to Sydney, has been wrecked off Gabo Island. The vessel was driven ashore on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Old Wreck Located. Kempsey
A fisherman reported to Pilot Hinde, at South-West Rocks, that he saw a black object in the water lying three-quarters of a mile south from Grassy Head, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Steamer Mourilyan on Reef. Railway Employees Whitewashed. Brisbane
The following telegram from the shipping inspector at Port Douglas was received by the Marine Board this afternoon:--"The steamer Mourilyan struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifty Shops Wrecked. London
A crowd wrecked 50 shops it Fermoy yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rebellious Ireland. Soldiers' Revenge at Fermoy Shops Wrecked and Looted. London, Tuesday Night
A party of 250 soldiers, incensed at the murder of their comrade at Fermoy, ran amok and wrecked and looted shops for upwards of an hour till the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Collier Ashore. Sydney
The coastal collier Audrey D. was blown ashore on Botany beach, near Cook's River breakwater. After discharging coal at Botany pier, the Audrey D…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rebellious Ireland. Soldiers' Revenge at Fermoy Shops Wrecked and Looted. London, Tuesday Night
A party of 250 soldiers, incensed at the murder of their comrade at Fermoy, ran amok and wrecked and looted shoos for upwards of an hour till the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burning of a Steamer. Sensational Developments. Sydney
A Launceston message states that an officer from the Victorian Criminal Investigation Department has been for ten days investigating the burning of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Marathon Collision. Rammed by Jap. Steamer. a Passenger's Story. London, Thursday Night
Mr. J. Thornton, an Australian; who is proceding to Oxford, said the Japanese ship's bows missed the passengers' quarters on the Marathon by a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Men Asphyxiated. on an American Schooner. Sydney
While the American shooner King Cyrus was lying at Levuk, the captain, accompanied by the harbomaster, went into the forepeak. Both were overcome…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Benzine Cargo on Fire. Coastal Steamer Destroyed. Wellington
The small coastal steamer Tainui, from Lyttleton to Wanganui, with a cargo of benzine, was beached in Gaw Bay on fire, and is a complete wreek. Eight lives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch Amelia Wrecked
As the result of an accident on Sunday morning Mr. Carlson's motor launch Amelia is now piled up on the northern breakwater. The little…
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