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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

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Wrecked Vessel Sold. £4o.ooo for £375. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 4

The ship Thordis, wrecked recently near Newcastle, was sold yesterday for £375. The ship's cargo consisted of 60000 tons of coal. Amongst the…

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Sydney-japan Steamer Service. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 4

The Yawata Maru, one of the steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, arrived in Sydney from Japan yesterday afternoon. This is the first…

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Sydney-japan Steamer Service. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 4

The Yawata Maru, one of the steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, arrived in Sydney from Japan yesterday afternoon. This is the first…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Off Nova Scotia. Possible Loss of Life. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

The steamer British King, of the Phoenix line, has foundered at Table Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no passengers, on board…

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A Wrecked Steamer. Sydney, Monday

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 4

A cable received in Sydney advises that the steamer Agincourt, laden with, coal for Hong Kong, has been, wrecked.'…

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A Barque Wrecked. Wellington

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 4

The Norwegian.barque Alma has been wrecked and has foundered. The crew has lost everything. No lives were lost…

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A Wrecked Steamer. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 4

A cable received in Sydney advises that the steamer Agincourt, ladem with coal for Hong Kong, has been wrecked…

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A Barque Wrecked Wellington

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 4

The Norwegian barque Alma a has been wrecked and has foundered. The crew has lost everything. No lives were lost…

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[?]Omach All Upset. Indigestion for Years. Henry Mansfield, Adelaide. Couldn't Eat or Sleep His Whole Health Wrecked. Back in His Old Form Again. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 4

"For years I suffered cruelly from indigestion before I found out that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were the only thing that could cure it," said Mr…

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A Fortune Out of £350. How We Salved the Australia the Story of a Famous Wreck

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 3

The Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., writes thus interestaingly to "Life": — In September of 1892 the R.M.S. Australia slipped out, of the Clyde, a…

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A Belated Steamer. Wellington

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 4

The steamer Sonoma, from San Francisco, was 24 hours behind time in arrival at Auckland. She was not sighted off the New Zealand coast…

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Sydney Harbor Collision. Running Down a Motor Launch. Captain of the Manly Steamer Acquitted. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

The Manly-Agnes collision, in which Mr. and Mrs. Hemings, of Balmain, were killed or drowned, came under notice yesterday in the Central…

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Steamer Breaks Down. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 4

Advices have been received to the effect that the steamer Prometheus, bound from Auckland to Sydney, on Thursday sustained a breakdown in…

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A New Steamer. Trial Trip. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 8

The steamer Zephyr, built in Sydney for the West Australian coastal trade, made her trial trip in the harbor yesterday, when she attained a…

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A New Steamer. Trial Trip. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 April 1906 · page 4

The steamer Zephyr, built in Sydney for the West Australian coastal trade, made her trial trip in the harbor yesterday, when she attained a…

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Gamblers Shot. Sudden Death on a Steamer. Quick Vengeance. the Executioners Escape. [Reutcr's Message]

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 April 1906 · page 2

A Geek band of 17 light-armed men boarded, a steamer plying between Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland, and Plock, a town'on the…

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An Island Steamer. The Moresby Overdue. S.S. Titus to Look for the Missing Steamer. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 April 1906 · page 2

The island steamer Moresby was seven days overdue at Samarai, on the South-eastern point of New Guinea, when the Ysabel left that port on…

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Steamer in a Gale. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 April 1906 · page 2

The steamer Fiona, belonging to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, encountered the full force of the recent cyclone whilst bound for Fiji…

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An Overdue Steamer

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 4

From Auckland to Sydney. Sydney, SaturdayThere is considerable anxiety concerning the non-arrival of the steamer…

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Arrival of Japanese Steamer. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 7

The new Japanese mail steamer Nikko Maru arrived at Port Adelaide from Yokohama, via ports, this morning. A large number of visitors inspected her…

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