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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
202 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 11
The steamer Powhattan, with 500 passengers, en route from New York to France, is sinking off Halifax. Rescue vessels are rushing to her assistance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two fires occurred within a week on the steamer Te Anau in New Zealand waters. The second outburst was discovered in the hold at Napier, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from New York says: The British freighter. Yarmouth, carrying two million dollars worth of champagne to Haven (Conn.), is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Queensland merchant ordered [?] tons of potatoes to be despatched to B[?]bane on the steamer Barambah from S[?]ney. They were delivered on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The return of all wrecks and other shipping casualties, resulting in loss of life off the New South Wales coast, during 1919 has been issued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Townsville message says the steamer Taiyuan, bound to Sydney, Tan on Wilkoe Reef while proceeding to sea from Thursday Island. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cable reached Sydney stating that the big cargo steamer Marne, white oh the voyage to Australia from New York, caught fire and was sunk in the Panama…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of a shipping disaster reached Sydney on Wednesday, when Mr. G. A. Parkes, agent for the United States and Australia Lines, Inc., received a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Department of Navigation on Thursday received a telegram from the pilot at the Bellinger River stating that the North Coast Company's steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The captain of the steamer Miltiades reported to the Melbourne detectives that the vessel's strongroom had been robbed while she was at Bombay, and £950 in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During a gale in Bass Strails the its the schooner Abemama lost her sails and much of her deck cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five eases of pneumonic influenza were landed at the quarantine station to-day from the steamer Bremen, which arrived from Wellington. All the patients are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The P. and O. Co.'s liner Berrima is ashore near Dover. Tugs have so far failed to refloat her. All the vessel's passengers have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The French barque Boieldieu, which left Port Lincoln, South Australia, yesterday morning wheat laden for Europe, went ashore at Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ferry steamer Kummulla crashed into a stone wall at Circular Quay. The impact was severe, and a large hole was made in the vessel's bow. Luckily no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. D. McFarlane, hon. sec. to the Grafton Chamber of Commerce, has received the following letter from Mr. C. G. Graves, timber agent and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Williams, of the steamer Miltiades, from which vessel's strongroom Treasury notes valued at £950 were stolen. states he was drugged in his sleep. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A largo party, after disarming and binding a watchman, removed half a ton of gelignite from the steamboat at Arklow, about 50 miles south of Dublin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Cairo says: The Silver Queen crashed near Wadi Haifa, owing to the evaporation of the water in the radiator. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Institute of Marine Engineers has decided to man the steamer lnduani in order to enable the vessel to proceed to Raboul and ports with foodstuffs…
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