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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

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Mailboat Wrecked. Cruiser to the Rescue

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

INFORMATION is to hand that the English mail steamer the Sobraon has been wrecked near Foochow…

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Newspaper Office Wrecked. Libelling Australians

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 4

THE Cape Times gives the following account of the wrecking of the office of the South African News, reported by cable: A body of Australian…

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Fire on a Steamer. An Exciting Time

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 3

THE Bielefeld, one of the big cargo steamers of the German-Australian line, bad a somewhat sensational experience in the passage from…

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The Wreck of the Sobraon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 3

The P. and O. steamer Sobraon, which went ashore at Tunying Island, off the coast of China, had her bottom ripped. Her forehold is inundated…

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The Very Latest. a New Steamer Route

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 3

Several of the steamship companies trading between America and Great Britain, are opening a new route for grain from the Lake ports of England, being eight hundred miles shorter than the…

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The Very Latest London, Wednesday afternoon. a Steamer Ashore

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1901 · page 3

The [?] Castle, during a fog [?] aground on Robben Island. Table Bay. Her position in critical. The passengers and mails [?] saved…

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A Tragedy of the Sea. a Newcastle Barque Wrecked. Murder and Cannibalism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 3

About the middle of last year the barque Angola—a Nova Scotia-owned vessel—sailed from Newcastle bound for Manila. She carried a cargo of coal for the foreign warships at the Philippines. Taking the…

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A Wreck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 3

The ketch Louisa Lamont went ashore on Camden Haven Spit this morning, but is expected to float off with this evening's tide…

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A Tragedy of the Sea. a Newcastle Barque' Wrecked. Murder and Cannibalism

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 12

About the middle of last year the barque Angola a Nova Scotia-owned vessel—sailed from Newcastle, bound for Manila. She carried a cargo of coal for the foreign warships at the Philippines. Taking the…

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Narrow Escape of the King. on Board a Racing Yacht. the Yacht Wrecked

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

LONDON, May 22, 6.45 p.m.,—The trials of the Shamrock and Shamrock 11., in connection with the race for the American Cup, were continued in…

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The Shamrock Accident. Yacht a Wreck

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

The trials of the Shamrock II., in connection with the race for the America Cup, were continued in the Solent on Wednesday. During a…

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Melbourne. Supposed Wreck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 3

It is reported that residents of Kilcunda heard the steamer Syren blowing at sen on Thursday night, off Kilcunda, as if the vessel was in distress. A tremendous gale wa raging in Bass's Strait at…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tolls it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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A Steamer Aground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 June 1901 · page 3

A telegram from Camden Haven states that the steamer Vision, which went ashore there yesterday, is likely to become a total wreck. The vessel is on the rocks near the bar…

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Terrible Scenes at a Wreck Captain and Crew Desert the Passengers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 4

WITH reference to the loss of the Mansusacb Company's steamer Arslan in the Red Sea on April Ist, the following particulars of the disaster are…

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Terrible Scenes at a Wreck. Captain and Crew Desert the Passengers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 1

WITH reference to the lose of the Mansusseb Company's steamer Arslan in the Red Sea on April 1st, the following particulars of the disaster…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 4

NORODY can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891." he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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Wreckage on the Coast of New Zealand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 3

A cable from Auckland states that a large portion of the forepart of the bulwarks of a vessel, with stanchions attached, on which is written the word "Alina" was picked up near Kaipara. The wreckage…

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[All Rights Reserved.] the Straitsman, or the Outlaw at Bay. an Australian Story. Chapter I. the Wreck

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 1

OUT of a gaping fissure in the littoral side of a giant cliff, a man—or rather a being with some human resemblance—peered forth…

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The Straitsman, or the Outlaw at Bay. [All Rights Reserved.] an Australian Story. Chapter I. the Wreck

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 4

OUT of a gaping fissure in the littoral side of a giant cliff, a man—or rather a being with some human resemblances—peered forth…

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