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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923

136 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 7

Steamer Wrecked All Hands Saved SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 July 1923 · page 2

The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Wallamba, which left Sydney on Tuesday night for New-castle and the Manning River with a…

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The Wreoked Steamer

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday.—The steamer Wallamba which was wrecked on Morna Point is fast breaking up Only her boilers were was visiable on…

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Steamer Ashore

Young Witness · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 2

VANCOUVER, July 29.—The steamer Siberian Priuce went ashore off Brunswick Island, near Victoria, in a fog…

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Steamer Disabled

Young Witness · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 2

The steamer Iron Chief arrived at Brisbane in a leaking condition, with damaged propellors. The vessel struck Evans' Reef north of the…

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Plague on Steamer Chinkoa Held Up

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 2

The steamer Chinkoa, which arrived in Sydney to-day, will be fumigated before she is allowed to come alongside the wharf, owing to there…

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Shoal of Blackfish. Washed Ashore in N.z

Young Witness · Thursday 9 August 1923 · page 5

An Auckland message says a shoal of huge blackfish ran ashore at Marsden Point Beach, apparently while seeking harbor entrance at ebb tide…

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Fire on Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 1

A fire in the bunkers of the Norwegian steamer Niles Nielsen after burning fiercely for eight hours was finally got under this morning. The…

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Steamer Cut in Halves LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 4

As the Isle of Man steamer Douglas was emerging from the dock at Liverpool it collided with the steamer Artemisia from Sourabaya. The…

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A Calamity on a 20th of August. Wreck of the Dunbar

The Yass Courier · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 3

Sixty-six years ago, on August 20, 1857, Sydney experienced one of the stormiest nights recorded. In the height of that bowling burricaue “The…

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S.O.S. CALLS. Steamer Changsha on a Reef

Young Witness · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 1

Wireless messages were picked up by the Darwin, and Perth stations on Sunday from the passenger steamer Changsha. The message stated that…

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Blown Ashore

Young Witness · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 1

Four men from the small steamer Venus were blown ashore near Fremantle and were saved. Two are still missing…

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Disabled Steamer. Being Towed to Melbourne

Young Witness · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A disabled steamer "The Eastern Moon" is being towed to Melbourne by a tug which was despatched to her…

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Naval Station Wrecked Harbor, Ships, Etc., Destroyed San Francisco

Southern Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 2

The Australian Press cables that the Japanese logation at poking received the [?]rst available detalis of the terrible earthquake, that wave…

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Port Wrecked New York

Southern Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1923 · page 3

A private telegram, received in Sydney from Kobe, states that Shidsznok, an important ten port of Japan, was [?] in the carthquake…

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Steamer Lost

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer thangsha is considered lost on Tiqurini Reef. Six hundred tons of meat were jebtisoned…

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Naval Disaster Seven American Destroyers Mail Liner Runs Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

Seven American destroyers ran aground off San Miguel Island, 29 miles south of the coast of Santa Barbara, during an impenetrable and unparalleled…

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Steamer Refloated. Vessel Undamaged

Young Witness · Thursday 13 September 1923 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamner Levuka, which went aground near Bowen Harbour, has been refloated without damage…

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Steamer Missing Adelaide

Southern Morning Herald · Monday 17 September 1923 · page 2

The graveat fours are entertained for the safety of the steamer Baron Blantyre and hor crow. She left Durban on August 10 w[?] a…

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Timely Help By Australian Steamer SYDNEY

Southern Morning Herald · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 2

Officers of an Eastern Steamer which reached Sydney to-day, stated that the steamer Empress of Australia saved hundreds of lives of…

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Wrecked in Gale Schooner and Men Lost on the Westralian Coast Perth

Southern Morning Herald · Saturday 22 September 1923 · page 2

Four man are missing from the schooner Eagl Flowor, which was wrecked on the coast, 60 miles north of Fromantic, in the torrific, gale…

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