Wrecked French Sailors. Sydney
A journalist who recently visited Antipodes Island says that the men of the wrecked French ship, the Felix Faure, exaggerated the state of affairs there…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
407 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 21
A Ketch Ashore. Sydney
The ketch Harold whilst crossing Bellinger Heads yesterday went ashore on the North Beach, and is now lying in a dangerous position…
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The fumigation process on the steamer Innamincka on Tuesday brought to light 160 more dead rats. On Monday 100 were taken out of the…
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The captain of the steamer Manila waa to-day fined £200 and the captain of the steamer Changsha £100 owing to Chinese escaping from the…
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The Union Company's new steamer Tofun, which is intended for the South Sea Island trade, arrived in Melbourne on Monday, under the command or…
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The report telegraphed to Fremantle last week by Captain Mills, of the steamer Paroo, that the salvage cutter Hainton had been wrecked on North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grounded Ketch Harold. Refloated Without Injury. Sydney
The kotch Harold, which grounded at the North Spit, Bellinger Heads, has been refloated. She is Apparently [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Experiences. Shipwrecked Sailors in a Dangerous Cove
A thrilling story of shipwreek was related by several members of the crew of the steamer Tolesby on arriving at their homes in South Shields…
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The Brazilian training ship Benjamin Constant, has discovered on an island in the Pacific 20 shipwrecked sailors, supposed to be the survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer. and Ketch Collide. Perth
The coastal steamer France collided with the ketch Olive in Fromantlo Harbor on Saturday. The latter's jibboom was carried away, and its bow…
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The shipwrecked castaways from the French barque, President Felix Faur[?], wrecked at the Antipodes Island south of New Zealand, whilst bound from…
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The crew of the auxiliary schooner Laurel, which was wrecked at Gilbert Islands on April 8, has. arrived in Sydney…
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The British steamor Powan, bound from Hong Kong to Canton, went ashore off the Chinese const to-day 80 Chiness passengers being drowned. The…
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A message received in Sydney states that the steamer Rakaia, which some time since left New Zealand for London, had put into Monte Video, South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sudden Death on a Steamer. Sydney
George Simon (35), a single man, a sailor, dropped dead on board the steamer Burrawang yesterday…
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Captain Charles Hind, master of the ketch Hazard, which was wrecked on the west coast on the afternoon of June 4, accompanied by Adolph…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Gale at Fremantle. Steamer on the Beach. Fremantle
A heavy gale was experienced at Fremantle yesterday, when the steamer France broke from its anchorage and drifted on to the southbeach, where it…
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The R.M.S. Britannia which arrived yesterday, experienced a heavy gale which was blowing on the coast at the rate of 95 miles an hour…
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No effort has been made to shift the steamer France from its dangerous position on the South beach at Fremantle, and no instructions have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer Wrecked. Seventy Natives Drowned. Four Europeans Eaten by Cannibals. [Reutor'3 Message.] London
The Belgian steamer Ville de Bruges was wrecked off the Congo coast yesterday. Seventy natives we're drowned. Four Europeans who swam ashore were…
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