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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1912

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Howard Smith Steamer Stranded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1912 · page 5

Howard Smith's new steamer Time, while being towed to Hartlepool to receive her engines, was stranded on the Seaton Carew Sands. The steamer is lying broadside to the…

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Steamer Burnt at Crete. Canet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1912 · page 5

The German steamer Paris has been burned after the crews of several warships made efforts to extinguish the flames…

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Vessels in Distress. Sighted by Steamer. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 2

The Tyser steamer Star of [?] during her voyage from Brisbare in Sydney, encountered the scow [?] whuch was reported as missing,[?]…

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Accident to Steamer. Hamburg July 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 5

The Hamburg Amerika liner Hamburg 10,531 tons which has just arrived here ustained considerable damage owing to the leavy weather she encountered on her…

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Wreck on the Orkneys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 5

The steamer Duna Hernoz, bound for Liverpool has stranded on the Orkneys. Several of the crew are missing…

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The Wrecked Bellinger

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 July 1912 · page 5

An order was made in the Police Court to-day for the removal of the wrecked steamer Bellinger from the Nambucca bar on the ground that the vessel impeded…

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Steamer Refloated. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 2

The steamer Seagull H, while were ashore off Ullandulla, and was at [?] thought likely to become a total wreek, has been re-lloated…

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Saved From the Sea. Wreck of the Bullfinch

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 1

The mystery surrounding the discovry the wreckage of the fishing boat Ballfinch recently, about 100 miles from [?], has been solved by the…

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The Ice Terror. Steamer Strikes Berg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 5

ST. JOHN (Newfoundland) July 29. The steamer Manchester Inventor (4217 tons), owned by the Manchester Liners, Ltd., bound from Montreal to Manchester,…

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The Steamer "Suevie."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 August 1912 · page 4

The many friends of the Rev. E. L. Coulter will be interested to know that the White Star liner "Suevic" in which he travelled to England, via the Cape, arrived…

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Damaged Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 5

The steamer Norseman has arived at Plymouth with her machinery damaged…

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Battleship in Collision. Steamer Rammed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 5

In the early hours of yesterday morning information reached Dover of a serious collision which had taken place eastward of Dungeness between the…

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Tragedy on a Steamer. Mother and Son Die

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 1

During the voyage of the CanadianAustralian steamer Zealandia, which arrived at Auckland (N.Z.) on Wednesday from Vancouver, a double tragedy…

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Oil-driven Steamer in Flames. Sensational Event. San Francisco

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 5

The passenger steamer J. A. Kilborn was on fire off the coast last night, and a few of the passengers were injured. While the oiler was replenishing the fuel…

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The Ice Terror. Steamer Strikes Berg. St. John (Newfoundland). July 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 3

The steamer Manchester Inventor (4217 tons), owned by the Manchester Liners, Ltd., bound from Montreal to Manchester, arrived here to-day in a badly damaged…

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All Winter Aboard a Wreck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 August 1912 · page 4

In winning salvage the Newfoundlanders do not seem to reflect upon the length of hardship and peril to which they must go. This is characteristic of their lives in every…

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Disastrous Collision, a Steamer Sunk. Duluth (Minn.), Aug. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 5

A collision occurred between the steamers James Gayley (4777 tons) and Rensslaor (5124 tons) off Maniton, as a result of which the former sank within 20 minutes…

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Oil-driven Steamer in Flames. Sensational Event. San Francisco

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 3

The passenger steamer J. A. Kilborn wsus on fire off the coast last night, and si few of the passengers were injured. While the oiler was replenishing the fuel…

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Steamer Experiences

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 5

The captain of the steamer [?] that the lighthouses at Ganos and Here have disappeared, and many villages in the ser[?] are in flames…

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Wreck of the G W Wolff. the Captain Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

The smack Ada Burgess arrived in Hobson's Bay on Monday, with 22 shipwrecked sailors, who were the crew of the ship G. W. Wolff, bound from Buenos Ayres to Newcastle, under charter to Messrs…

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