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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

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Late News by Cable. London, Aug. 26. Wreck of the Futami Maru

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 3

The Futami Maru, of the Japanese Mail Steamship Company, has gone ashore at Mindoro Island, one of the Philippines. Her passengers and crew landed on the Island, where they camped for a…

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Plague on a French Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 3

Three cases of plague are reported to have occurred on a French steamer passing Constantinople on its homeward voyage…

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Steamer in a Gale. a Sheaking Spectacle at Sea

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 1

THE steamer Moresby had a terrible experience between Sydney and New Britain, on her [?]land cruise. The captain says It was the roughest…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. the Wrecked Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

A cable was received in Sydney to-day to the effect that the steamer Futami Maru, which had become a total wereck, had been abandoned…

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A Steamer Aground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 3

A telegram from Forster states that the steamer K[?] on going out this morning grounded on the bar but is expected to float off with this afternoon's [?]…

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Wreck of a Barque

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1900 · page 3

A cable from New Zealand states that the Danish barque Nordby was driven ashore on the Solitary Island on August 21st. The French warship Pretest fendered all assistance possible…

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The Invention of the Schooner

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

History records that "Captain Robinson built and rigged a ketch, as they were then called, masted, and rigged it in a peculiar manner ; when launched the peculiar motion…

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Wreck of a Barque. [By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 5

A CABLE from New Zealand states that the Danish barque Nordby was driven ashore on the Solitary Islands on August 21st. The French warship…

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The Wreck of the Cynthia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 3

The Marine Court to-day decided there was no evidence to justify the master of the wrecked schooner Cynthia being called upon to show cause, the Court being clearly of opinion that before the…

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The Wrecked Suffolk. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 2

IN Connection with the wreck of the Federal liner Suffolfe on the South African coast near Port Elizabe[?]b,it new transpires that there werw 900…

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The Rightfulking He Was a Mental Wreck, but He Gave His Life For Another

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 1

Not even the hideous pile of red brick could spoil the beauty of the asylum gardens upon an evening In June. The huge house steed on a hillside…

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The Rightful King He Was a Mental Wreck, but He Gave His Life For Another

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 1

Not even the hideous pile of red brick, could spoil the beauty, of the asylum gardens upon an evening in June. The huge bouse stood on a hillside…

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A Vessel Wrecked

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 3

A cable was received this morning form [?] stating that the barquestine Lord of the [?] from Sydney, went ashore north of the sandspit, at Kaipara [?] at eleven 0'clock last night. A big…

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A Total Wreck. [By Telegraph]. Auckland

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 October 1900 · page 3

LAST night the barquentine Lord of the Isles, from Sydney, went ashore to the north of the north sandspit at Waipara Heads. A big sea was…

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The Range and Wrecking Power of Guns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 5

The "Range of Modern guns" is described by Mr W. J., Gordon in the Leisure Hour with a realistic sense of what it means that positively makes one shudder…

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The Wreck of the Suffolk

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 3

The Court of Marino Inquiry has given its decision bs to the cause of the wreck of the steamer Suffolk. which, while on a voyage form London to Sydney, struck on Klippen Point port Elizabeth,…

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Increase in Steamer Fares

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 3

All the steamship companies have decided to raise fares 10 per cent, from October 5, owing to the increase in the price of coal…

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Tragic Incident on a Steamer

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 2

The steamer Rakaia, from London for New Zealand, put into Hobart for coal late on Sunday night. Pilot Anderson West went on board from the pilot Station, and…

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Townsville. the Wreck of the Dhrena

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 3

Two boats arrived from the wreck of the ship Dhrena this morning containing the chief officer and eight of the crew. they left the vessel on Thursday afternoon. The mate reports that the…

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