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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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Steamer Wrecked

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

The French steamer Poiton has been wrecked off Uruguay. Many of the passengers, who were chiefly Spanish emigrants, were, panic-stricken, and triad to swim ashore…

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Cable News. Emigrant Ship Wrecked. London, May 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 2

During a gale the French steamer Poitou, bound from Marseilles for Buenos Ayres, was wrecked at Cape Santa Maria, on tile south-east coast of Uruguay…

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Steamer Founders

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 3

The steamer Thortbill, bound from New York to Brazil, caught fire and foundered in mid-ocean. The crew of 29 took to the four boats and sailed 870. miles, landing…

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Cruiser Ashore

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 2

Advices from Shanghai state that the French cruiser Chanzy is badly ashore on the Saddle Islands…

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The Lizard Wreck. Such Splendid Discipline

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 8

It seems at first to be a remarkable coincidence that two great passenger ships should within a few hours have been wrecked on the same line of coast…

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Reduced Steamer Fares From United Kingdom

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 2

SINCE the revival of the assisted immigration policy of the Government a little over a year ago, large numbers of persons have taken advantage of the…

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Accident to Mail Steamer

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 4

R.M.S. Oroya, from Sydney, April 17, for London, had a breakdown off Ushant on the coast of France on Saturday evening, the intermediate. crank being damaged. For…

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Nothing but a Wreck. a Prompt Salvage. The [?]

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 4

A narrative well worth reading is one which was told by Mrs. Elizabeth Colo, of No. 78 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill, in the company of a…

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Steamer Kiaora Wrecked. Three Lives Lost

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

NEWS was received in Auckland last night of the wreck of the Northern Company's steamer Kiaora, between Kawhia and Mokau, on the west coast of the North Island…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Steamer Master Fined

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 6

Mr. Hansen, master of the steamer Countess of Errol, was filled £1 to-day for taking two seamen to sea without an agreement. COAL-LUMPER CHARGED…

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Wreck and Loss of Life

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 2

The steamer Kiaora wrecked thirty miles from Kawhai, New Zealand. Three lives lost, including the captain…

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Everton Grange Ashore

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 June 1907 · page 4

The steamer Everton Grange, 7204 tons, of the Houlder line, from Liverpool for Sydney, struck on a sunken rock at Duiker Point, 19 miles south-west by south…

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Steamer Wrecked—90 Lives Lost

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 4

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Santiago, 2953 tons, has been wrecked off the coast of Chili, with great loss of life…

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The Wreck of the Santiago

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 3

One of the boats belonging to the Pacific S.N. Company's steamer, Santiago, which was wrecked off the Coast of Chili, and containing twenty persons, drifted about for…

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Attempt to Wreck Police Station. Dynamite Bomb

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 4

A SENSATION occurred at Wattle Flat, near Bathurst, on Saturday morning, the explanation of which up to the present is a mystery. Very recently Constable Cullen, who has been…

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H.M.S. Pyramus Ashore. Governor-General on Board

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 2

Considerable excitement was occassioned on Tuesday when news was received from Brisbane that H.M.S. Pyramus, with the Governor-General and suite…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. Wreckage Sighted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

Captain Snoor, of the Steamer Allowrie, reports sighting floating wreckage of either a schooner or ketch off Botany Heads early this morning. The Allowrie was…

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The Wreck of the Dunbar

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 6

"Fifty years ago, you say! Can it [?] possible? I addressed the interrogation to a friend a few days back. He had been reading a paragraph in one of the papers…

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Shipwrecked on a Cannibal Island

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 6

A cake of soap is said to have saved the lives of five men and a boy off the coast of New Guinea. The story, as told in the smoking-room of a steamer going to Brisbane, by an old man,…

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French Schooner Lost

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 4

The wooden schooner Violette, 125 tons of Gravelines, France, founded off the const of Iceland. Nineteen people were drowned…

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