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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919

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The Latest. 1700 Wounded in Peril. Ship Ashore. VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 2

The transport Northern Pacific is ashore off New York. A storm is rising this afternoon, and rescuers are unable to approach the vessel. Seventeen hundred wounded are in…

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U.S. Transport Ashore. Troops Still Aboard. New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 1

A breeches buoy has been rigged ready to remove the soldiers from the U.S. transport, Northern Pacific, which is ashore at Fire Island. Conditions have improved, but the…

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Sha[?]kleton's Ship Wrecked Off Yarmouth. Ten Lives Lost. Vancouver

Young Witness · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 1

Sir Ernest Shackelton's ship Endurance, has been wrecked off Yarmouth. Ten or the crowwere lost. Mr. Thomas Bleasdale, late of…

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Steamer Refloated Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 2

The steamer Mindl, which has been ashore in the Russel group of Islands has been refloated, and is apparently uninjured…

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First New Steamer. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

The first now steamer which is building at Walsh Island will be launched on 26th or 27th March…

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A Ketch Rescued. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 2

No reports as to the influenza cases Broken Bay, was rescued by the steam or Newcastle with her rudder broken in heavy weather…

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High Steamer Fares. (United Service Message.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

The Agents General Mr. Fisher, and General Monash have discussed the high steamer fares as affecting emigration and will ask Mr. Amory, Under-Secretary for the Colonies,…

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Foundered

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1919 · page 2

When off Long Reef, and within a mile or two of Sydney Heads, the large collier, Myola, owned by the Australian Steamships, Ltd.. and bound from Newcastle to Sydney, took a sudden…

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Items of I[?]erest Foundered in Stor[?]

Young Witness · Friday 4 April 1919 · page 6

The Myola, one of [?] most up to date colliers trading i[?]tralian waters, foundered in a [?]m near the Heads shortly after m[?]ght on…

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Steamer Abrift

Young Witness · Friday 11 April 1919 · page 1

PERTH, Friday.—The steamer Cardlum, which was taken in low by a steamer after being afire, broke adrift hundred miles cast of Albany…

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British Steamer Arrives with Food for Germans

Young Witness · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. — Reuter's Hamburg correspondent says that the First British steamer since the war has arrived with 2500 tons of food…

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Steamer on Fire Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 2

An outbreak of fire occurred in the bunkers of the steamer North Polat, 5000 tons, which was lying at [?] ment. The brigades worked all…

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Biggest Triplane Wrecked. (United Service Message.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1919 · page 4

London, May 26.—The great triplane built by the Tarrant Company at Farnborough was to have made a trial flight to-day. There were seven people seated in it, but the machine did…

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Fears for Schooner

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 2

Grave fears are felt for the safety of the American schooner H. K. Hall, which left Sydney on May 30 with 3000 tons of general cargo for Melbourne When passed by a steamer on the 11th…

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A Schooner Missing Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 2

There is much anxiety in shipping circles concerning the wherebouts of the American schooner H. K. Oall. which left Sydney with 2000 tons of…

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Schooner Safe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 June 1919 · page 4

The overdue American schooner, H. K. Hall, was towed into Sydney this morning…

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Steamer Aground Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 2

The Commonwealth steamer Coolcha, Adelaide to Hobart, grounded near the Antechamber Bay, on the South Australian coast…

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Great Earthquake. Buildings Wrecked. Thousands Homeless. Many Fatalities. (United Service Message). (LONDON, June 30th

Young Witness · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 2

An earthquake in the Florence and Bologna districts wrecked dwellings, churches, and factories. Veccho has been reduced to ruins, and many…

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Melbourne Riots.. Treasury Offices Wrecked. Brutal Assault on Premier

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 July 1919 · page 2

A serious disturbance took place in Melbourne on Monday, as a result of which the Treasury was partly wrecked. Returned soldiers, followed by hoodlums, formed a deputation to the…

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Steamer Missing. Brisbane

Young Witness · Friday 25 July 1919 · page 2

The [?] stea[?] carrying food stuffs for [?]pton [?] to northern ports, is reported missing. A cl[?] search is being…

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