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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1897

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.24. a Steamer Beached

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1897 · page 4

THE steamer Princess bound from Sydney to Broken Bay, cargo laden, sprang a leak yesternight and was beached at Barrenjocy to prevent her foundering…

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Capsize of a Lifeboat. London, Jan. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 6

Owing to the upsetting of a lifeboat off the coast of Jutland, 12 men have been drowned…

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Cable Intelligence. the Wreck of a Troopship. How Those on Board Were Saved

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 4

London, Monday.--Further particulars received at the wreck of the Indian troopship, Warron Hastings, on the Island of Reunion, while on the voyage from Capetown to…

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The Delayed Mail Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1897 · page 3

The Zealandia, the overdue mail steamer, arrived at Auckland this morning…

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The Wreck of a Troopship

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 2

Later particulars received of the wreck of the ludian troopship, Warren Hastings, on the Island of Reunion while on the voyage from Capetown to Mauritius and…

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Arrest of Butler. a Clever Plan Prepared. Constables Disguised As Quarantine Officers. Butler "Held Up" by a Revolver. He Quietly Surrenders. Asserts His Innocence. Smokes a Cigarette While Coming Ashore. a Good Seaman of Pious Disposition. Butler to Sail for Sydney on Saturday. What His Kit Contained. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 2

The Swanhilda has arrived at San Francisco and Butler has been arrested. 9.50 a.m. Butler's arrest was made by United States…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Forty Lives Lost

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 2

The German steamer Siracusa has been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall, forty persons being drowned. Heavy seas prevented the lifeboat from reaching the…

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Freetrade Wreckage

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 2

PUBLIC attention was recently called to the ominous fact that an old and important flax spinning firm of the highest standing in Leeds, after having…

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The Wreck of a French Steamer. London, March 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1897 · page 2

The steamer Yanariva has picked up the lifeboat of the French Transatlantic steamer Villa do la Nazaire, which recently foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina…

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Wrecks.—Twelve Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1897 · page 2

THE ship Zuleika, bound from Dunedin to Wellington, has been wrecked at Cape Palliser, N.Z. Twelve of her company were lost. The captain, the second and third mates, and seven of…

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Disastrous Shipwreck. Twelve Lives Lost

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 April 1897 · page 2

The ship Zuleika, bound from Dunedin to Wellington, was wrecked in Pallisser Bay in Friday night's storm. They attempted to wear ship when the rocks were…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Saturday, 12.45 p.m. a Barque Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 2

THE barque Adderley, from Fremantle, went ashore on Stockton Beach, near Newcastle, during a heavy gale this morning, and is now high and dry. The crew walked ashore…

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The Wreck of the Steamer Aden. London, June 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 July 1897 · page 2

A Reuter's telegram states that the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Aden, which was lost off the island of Secotra, in the Indian Ocean, while on her way from Hongkong to London, struck on a reef on…

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Wreck of the R.M.S. Aden. London, June 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 July 1897 · page 4

The P. and C. Company's steamer Aden, which left Hongkong for London at the end of May, has been wrecked off the Island of Socotra, in the Gulf of Aden…

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The Missing P. & 0. Steamer

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 3

Nows has reached London that the P. and U. steamer Aden, now twelve days overdue from Hongkong, has been wrecked off the Island of Socotra, near…

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The Disaster at Sea. the Wreck of the Steameb Aden

The Yass Courier · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 2

London, June 29.--A Renter's telegram states that the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Aden, which was lost off the island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean, while on her way from…

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The P. and O. Steamer Aden

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3

Farther details of the loss of the P and O. steamer Aden, wrecked on a reef off the island of Socotra, have been required. The Aden struck the reef during…

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Wesleyan. Wreck of the Meda

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

COCKTOWN, Monday.—News by the schooner Ivanhoe from New Guinea shows that the Wesleyan mission schooner Meda went aground on a reef off East Cape, twenty-six…

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Wreck of the Aden. a Complete Passenger List

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 July 1897 · page 2

There came to hand yesterday a complete list of the passengers who were on board the P. and O. steamer Aden at the time of the wreck of that steamer, which occurred off…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday, 12.27 p.m. Steamer Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 July 1897 · page 4

HUDDART, Parker, and Co.'s steamer Tasmania was wrecked at New Zealand this morning. She was proceeding from Napier to Gisborne, and during a very heavy gale…

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