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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
186 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 10
Many old hands on the Clarence River would read with regret of the sinking of the hull of the City of Grafton, on Tuesday of last week, six miles off Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The naval radio station at Bremerton slates that radio reports from St. Paul (Alaska), reported that the crew of the distressed Japanese vessel, Seiyo Maru,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A radio message was received in Sydney to-day stating that the steamer Goulburn struck a submerged object near Montague Island this morning, while bound…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A message from Eureka (California), states that during a gale, 18 men aboard the lumber schooner Brooklyn, met death when they attempted to steam out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the result of a fight between two men on the steamer, Port Sydney, while in harbor at Hobart, John Stubbings, 30, a fireman, is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from Apia states that the auxiliary schooner Rahra was wrecked off Dangar Island, but the crow, after spending five days in the whaleboat. and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is officially announced that the Brazilian port authorities were exonerated for firing on the steamer Baden when 25 persons were killed, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Norwegian vessel, Hirundo, trading between Amoy, Swatow and Bangkok, was seized on the high seas by pirates travelling as passengers, who landed with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Alma Frances Bruce was arrested on board the steamer Esquillino and appeared at the police court on a telegram warrant from Redfern, Now South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ketch Maramingo, laden with timber, was blown ashore at Gabo Island during a gale on Thursday and was totally wrecked. The crew of six are marooned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mauretania rescued the crew of the 1800 ton Swedish steamer, Ovidia, on Wednesday, after they had abandoned the ship in two boats 400 miles south-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four hundred passengers, mostly half-dressed and some only in their nightclothes, took to the boats when the 14,000 ton motor ship, Highland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. C. Outram, purser of the mail steamer Cathay, was attacked in the dark by two men who had apparently concealed themselves aboard the vessel late…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fishing ketch, Warren, which left Fremantle on Monday week, was wrecked on a reef near Ledge Point the following night. The crew swam to the shore, half…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Swedish vessel, Hedvig, is ashore and breaking un on Prat as coral reef, 350 miles south of here. In response to urgent distress signals,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss Winifred Spooner and Flight-Lieut. E. Edwards, who are endeavoring to break by four days the nine days' record from London to Capetown, crashed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Details of the explosion in the quarry on the Macleay River last week, when two men were killed and One injured, reveal the awful tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over 300 Chinese were drowned in the Yangtze River, near Hankow, when the native steamer Sientao, bound for Changsha foundered. Passengers became…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The salvage vessel Artiglio, which was blown to pieces off Lorient with the loss of fourteen lives, recently located the liner Egypt and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A. tiny leak in a ship can easily be stopped if taken in time, but if disregarded it will overcome the mightiest vessel, and drag her beneath the sea,…
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