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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898

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Wreck of the Minora

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE of the foundering of the brig Minora at sea on Saturday night, and the supposed loss of six lives, reached Newcastle on Monday…

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Wreck of a Japanese Transport. London, Jan. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 2

Reports have reached Antwerp to the effect that the Japanese transport Vara has been wrecked off the Pescadores Group, in the Formosa Channel. Only five of those on board were saved, 85 being…

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Wreck of a Coastal Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 2

TWO or three weeks have happened at Gronalla Bench. Principally small coasting crait, which, while seeking in the darness shelter in Bettny bay from storms, have misjudged…

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Wreck of a Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 4

ON Monday morning the steamer Koonya left Moruya for Sydney with 14 passengers, amongst whom were several women and children, and about 3 a.m. on Tuesday she…

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Wreck in the English Channel. London, Feb. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 3

The steamer Channel Queen was wrecked on the Isle of Guernsey during a dense fog last night. A panic occurred among the passengers, and in launching the boats one was swamped. Eighteen lives…

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Novel. Flotsam. Book Iv.--come Ashore. Chatter Iii.--(continued.)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 1

So now the thing was how to get Alice home again. For two or three days I didn't really know how to begin. It seems absurd enough now, but I was afraid to tell the…

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The Recent Gale. Three Wrecks. Great Damage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

BEFORE sunrise on Monday the sea had given up some of its dead from shipwrecks on the New South Wales coast. Early the news was abroad that a brig had gone, then a barquentine, and again a…

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Cable News. the Victorious Ashore. London, Feb. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1898 · page 2

The battleship Victorious, which was a low days ago despatched from Malta for China, has gone shore at Port Said. She has not yet been floated off…

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Foundering of a Steamer. London, Feb. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1898 · page 2

The steamer Clare, of Nevada, bound for Seattle, in Alaska, has foundered off the Alaskan coast. The passengers were mostly miners on route to the Yukon goldfields. It is believed that 60 of the…

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A Warship Ashore

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 3

Reuter's correspondent at Port Said reports that the British warship Victorious, which went ashore there, is in a serious position, and will have to…

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Foundering of a Steamer. Crew and Passengers Saved

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 3

The steamer Veedam, belonging to the Netherlands-American S.N. Company, has sunk in the Atlantic. Her crew and passengers, numbering 210, were rescued…

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Shipwreck and Loss of Life Wreck of the Brig Amy. All Hands Lost

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 3

BULLI, Monday.—During the violent southerly gales which have been raging here since Sunday morning, the brig Amy, (Captain McGee), a well-known…

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Wreck of the Malcolm. All Hands Lost

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 3

The schooner Malcolm, which left Wollongong an hour after the brig Amy, is believed to have gone down 200 yards from the Bulli jetty. She is said to have…

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Wreck of a French Steamer. London, Feb 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 4

Reports from Teneriffs sate that the French steamer Flachat, bound for Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama, has been wrecked off Anaga Point during a dense fog…

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Wreck of a French Steamer

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 2

Reports from Teneriffe state that the French steamer Flachat, bound for Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama, has been wrecked off Anaga Point during a dense…

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The Wreck of the Mataura. London, March 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 4

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Mataura, which went ashore in the Straits of Mageilan, has broken in halves. The reloading and storing of the salvaged wool in London cost 1½d…

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Wreck of the China. London, March 25

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 2

THE P. and O. Company's R.M.S. China has gone ashore at Azaloa point, the easternmost point of the Island of perima at the entrance to the red Sea…

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Wreck of the China

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

LONDON, March 25.--Lloyd's agent at Perim, in the Red Sen, telegraphs that the P. and O, Company's R.M.S. China, from Sydney, February 23, has gone ashore at Azalea Point, the…

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Wreck of the China. LONDON. Friday Night

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 3

It is expected that the P. and O. Company’s Steamer China, which is ashore at Azal[?] Point the caster most point of perim, will become a total wreak…

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