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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

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The Transvaal War. General Buller's Forces. Necessity for Mounted Troops. Great Event Impending. Investment of Ladysmith. Sortie From Mafeking. German Steamer Captured. Depression in Pretoria. London, December 29

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 4

MOST of Lieutenant-General Warren's division of 11,000 men, who lately arrived in batches at Capetown, have arrived in Natal…

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Capture of a German Steamer. Dec 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 4

H.M.S. Magicienne has captured the German East Africa Company's steamer Bundesrath in Delagoa Bay with contraband of war on board. The passengers included…

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The Transvaal War. a Great Event Impending. Boers Recross the Tugela. Closer Investment of Lady Smith. Sharp Skirmish at Victoria West. Sortie From Mafeking. a Steamer Captured at Delagoa Bay. London, Dec. 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 4

THE special war correspondent of the Morning Post at Chieveley, where General Sir Redvers Buller has nearly 30,000 men, states that a great event is impending…

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Seizure of a Steamer in Delagoa Bay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

The British authorities have seized the Hamburg steamer Hans Wagner in Delagoa Bay…

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The Steamer Pelotas Stranded. London, Jan. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 4

The Hamburg and South American liner Pelotas wan stranded at Dungeness, but was refloated after a quantity of the cargo had been jettisoned…

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German Steamer Detained at Aden. Jan. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

The British authorities at Aden detained the German steamer General, bound for East Africa. Her cargo was discharged and overhauled…

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Wreck and Loss of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 1

The steamer Borghese has foundered near Cape Finisterre. Twenty-two of the crow were drowned…

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The Steamer General Released

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

The German steamer General, which was detained by the British authorities at Aden, while on a voyage to East Africa, it being suspected that she had contraband of war aboard, has been released…

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Another German Steamer Seized. Jan. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 4

The Hamburg steamer Herzog, bound for Delagoa Bay, has been seized and brought to Durban. Mr. Lyne has received a cable from Mr…

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British and Foreign. London, Tuesday afternoon. Bridge Wrecked

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

Major-General French shelled and wrecked Colecborg bridge in order to embarrass the retreat of the Boore. SCOUTS' INFORMATION…

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The War. Attack During a Storm. Colesberg Bridge Wrecked. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 4

Further particulars are to hand relative to the recent engagement between a section of Major-General French's troops and the Boers near Rendsburg. During a blinding…

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The Seizure of the Steamer Bundesrath

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 6

The cargo of the German steamer, Bundesrath, which was recently seized by the British authorities, has been found to be correct, and will shortly be released…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday, 1.3 p.m. Steamer Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

THE China steamer Airlie has gone ashore on Chatham Reef. The passengers were brought on to Cooktown by an American cruiser…

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The German Steamer Bundesrath

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 4

The German steamer Bundesrath, which was seized at Delagoa Bay, and whose cargo was afterwards found to be free from contraband of war, has been released by the…

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An American Steamer Detained

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 2

An injunction bas been granted by the Supreme Court at Philadelphia, at the instance of a British subject, for the detention of the American steamer Mermuda, on the ground that it was intended for…

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The Seizure of a German Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

The contraband portion of the cargo by the German steamer Hans Wagner, which was seized by the British authorities in Delagoa Bay, but subsequently released, has been landed at Port…

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Wreck of the Cambria

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 2

THE steamer Gambria, abo~ut 00 tons, trading between Bnobhuy and Fremantle, struck on a renf a quarter of a mile south of Garden Island, when making Buckingham Channel…

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Wreck of the Steamer Cambria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4

The steamer Cambria, about 100 toes, trading between Banbury and Fremantle, struck on a reef a quarter of a mile south of Garden Island, when making Rockingham Channel on Sunday night,…

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Steamer Michigan

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 4

THE oldest iron steamship in the world (says an American paper) is the United States steamer Michigan. The vessel was…

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Two Wrecks. Thirty Persons Missing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1900 · page 2

THE steamer Sarah Fenwick, whilst returning to Ballina with a cargo of timber from the Seven-mile Beach on Wednesday, was wreaked at the mouth of the Richmond River. The steamer Glenelg, which…

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