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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1903

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The Wreck of the Dunbar

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 August 1903 · page 6

YESTERDAY was the forty-sixth anniversary of the wreck of the Dunbar. Mr. T. F. Meyer of Goulburn has an interesting memento of the occasion which is in the form of…

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A Fine Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 September 1903 · page 2

IT has been arranged that the new twinscrew 10,000-ton R.M.S. Moldavia will leave on her first voyage from Sydney to Europe on February 3 next. She us one of the finest…

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Apparently Wrecked

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 October 1903 · page 4

THE steamer Fazilka, which arrived at Port Adelaide en Monday, reported that on September 19, when in Sunday Straits, a large sailing vessel,…

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His Domestic Happiness Was Wrecked

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 6
Also in The Young Chronicle

"It's just awful how criminally ignorant I've been regarding our food," said Mrs. Newlight to her husband the other day. "I can never be thankful enough that [?]…

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The Missing Steamer Ovalau

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 5

HOPES had been entertained that the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Birks ate, on her way from Fiji to Sydney, would fall in with the missing island steamship Ovalau, but on…

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The Missing Steamer Ovalau

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 2

UP to last night nothing had been heard of the island steamer Ovalan which should have reached Sydney last Thursday week. The vessel has been re-insured at Lloyd's at a…

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Missing Steamer Ovalau

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

THE island tra[?]ling steamer, Ovalau, Burns, Philp and Co, on Sunday was 10 days overdue at Sydney, and it is 16 days…

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Ariadne Wreck Case. Dramatic Scene in Court

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1903 · page 4

The case in which Mr. T. C. Kerry, of Sydney, owner of the yacht Ariadue, which was wrecked on the New Zealand coast in March 1901,…

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Crowd Wreck an Alleged Betting Shop

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 November 1903 · page 4

A disturbance occurred on Tuesday night about the premises of a man stated to carry on the business of a bookmaker, in Market. street, Sydney. From information received by…

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(Reuter's.) Sydney, Friday. WRECK

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 November 1903 · page 4

The ketch Sir George has been wrecked two miles from Smoky Cape. Two men were drowned. The master and three men were saved, and are now in the lighthouse…

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Wreck of the Sir George

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 November 1903 · page 2

DURING a strong S.W. gale the ketch Sir George went ashore at 10 o'clock on Thursday night two miles north of Smoky Ca[?] lighthouse. Four hands were saved—the…

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Cable News. Wreck of a Warship. London, Dec. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 December 1903 · page 2

The second-class cruiser Flora, Captain Casper J. Baker, of the British Pacific Squadron, is ashore at Denman Island, and it is feared will become a total, wreck. Her stern is 10ft…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. Steamer Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

The steamer St. George, bound from Newcastle to the Richmond, is ashore sic miles from Seal Rooks. It is believed there were no passengers. The forehold is full of water…

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