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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923

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Missing Steamer. Wreckage Found

Young Witness · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.—A message from Thursday Island states that wreckage has been found at Port Lihou, on the south-east coast of…

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Collision in Harbor. Steamer and Ferry

Young Witness · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A sensational collision occurred In Sydney Harbor just after dark inst night. The North Coast steamer Burringbar was…

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Schooner Overdue Mysterious Movements a Crew in Pyjamas. San Francisco

Southern Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1923 · page 4

The gravest fears are entertained for the chooner Elinor[?], which has not yet been sighted. She is nintey days out from Newcastle, Australia, and bound to…

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Wrecked Barque Survivors Reach Cairns Brisbane

Southern Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1923 · page 4

Four survivors from the wrecked barque, amy Turner, ahve reached Ca[?]ras. They tell terrible stories of privation…

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Mysterious Explosion. Bedroom Wrecked. Miraculous Escapes

Young Witness · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man was nursing a baby before a fire the balcony room of a house at North Sydney last night, when a terrific…

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Steamer Sunk. Collision in Belfast Lough. 200 Lives Saved.—a Close Call

Young Witness · Tuesday 5 June 1923 · page 4

LONDON, June, 4.—The steamer Graphic, from Liverpool, collided with the cargo steamer Balnamin, in Belfast Lough…

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On a Reef. Ketch Founders in a Gale. Crew Rescued

Young Witness · Thursday 7 June 1923 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.—The ketch Woolanal, from Burnie to Adelaide, was driven on the Henty Reef, off the Victorian coast, during a gale…

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S.O.S. CALLS. From Cargo Steamer

Young Witness · Thursday 7 June 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—If the Trevesse's crew are still in the boats near the spot where the ship sank, tho rescuing vessel Treginna, should find them…

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Liner Ashore LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 4

The 5000 ton Brocklebank liner Maidan, bound from Calcutta to London, is ashore at St. John's Island in the Red Sea, and is sinking. Another…

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Wreckage Sighted

Young Witness · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A wireless men sage sent by the steamer. Trevean to Melbourne was intercepted by the Pennant Hills station. It stated that…

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IMMIGRATION New Steamer Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 June 1923 · page 4

One of the most significant moves to wards the development of immigration is the creation of a new line of steamers capable of carrying hundreds of…

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The Firthdale. Largest Freight Steamer

Young Witness · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Next Thursday a new freight steamer of 12,800 tons for the Commonwealth Line, named the Firthdale, will be launched at…

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Wreckage Found

Young Witness · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Captain Walsh, harbormaster in charge of the pilot Rockhampton, after inspecting wreck age at Keppel Island, says it is…

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Loss of a Steamer

Young Witness · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 1

LONDON, June 22.—A Lahore message states that an inquiry has been opened into the loss of the vessel O'Kara, off the South African coast…

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Nine Men Killed. Fight on a Schooner. Smuggling Chinese

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 2

The finding of a schooner drifting at the mercy of the winds and lines off Sandy Hook, off the Jersey Coast (U.S.A.), was the first, link in a…

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Body Washed Ashore

Young Witness · Saturday 30 June 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Kempsey message says that the fully clothed body of a man about 60 years of ago, with a life belt round his body, was…

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Shipping Disaster Steamer Sumatra Founders Off Sydney Heads. Crew of 46 Missing. Bodies Washed Ashore

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 July 1923 · page 4

Information received from scattered sources on-Friday night indicated that an appalling sea tragedy had taken place in the vicinity of Crescent…

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Fire at Sea. Phosphate Steamer Burning

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 July 1923 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.—Another sea disaster is reported. The steamer Barrington, 4000 tons, is afire about 60 miles west of Sandy…

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Lost with All Hands Steamer Sumatra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 July 1923 · page 6

All hope for the safety of the complement which left. Sydney on Monday afternoon, 25th, on the steamer Sumatra has been swept away by…

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Another Ship. Wreckage Found

Young Witness · Thursday 5 July 1923 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wed.—Wreckage was picked up to-day near Cape Northumberland. Kerosene tins, new hatches, and papers were found…

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