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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1914

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Launch of the Euripides. Aberdeen-australian Triple-screw Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1914 · page 3

The Euripides, a large triple-screw steamer, under construction by Harland and Wolff, Limited, for Messrs. Geo. Thompson and Co., Limited's passenger and cargo…

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Disaster at Sea. German Ship Wrecked. Nineteen Lives Lost. London, Feb. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 5

The German ship Hera, 1994 tons, while bound for Falmouth, off Nare Point, and 19 of the crew were drowned. The Hera Struck the rocks at midnight. The…

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German Ship Wrecked. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 2

The German ship Hera has been wrecked off the coast of' Cornwall, Twenty of the crew, including the captain, were drowned…

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Schooner Wrecked

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

Bootless, coatless, and hatless, five men were brought to Fremantle by the fishing boat Wanderer to-day. They were the surviving crew of the well-known trading…

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Steamer Founders

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

The steamer Cambawarra, 450 tons, bound from Rotterdam, struck a reef 114 miles from Fremantle on (Tuesday morning, and wetn down. The chief mate, who…

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Steamer Ablaze. Kerosene Cargo Explodes

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 3

A remarkable fire broke out on the coastal steamer Moa, from Wellington, when the vessel was five miles off Wanganui on Tuesday morning. The vessel…

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Steamer Warfare. Berlin, Feb, 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 2

Herr Ballin, chairman of directors of the Hamburg-Amorika line, has accepted the suggestion of the Holland-Amerika Company, that the existing agreement should…

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Life-boat Crew

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

A police telegrams reported that three of the lifeboat crew reached Dongarra very footsore and that the other three are safe on the bench 20 miles southward…

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Message From the Sea. Wreck of Nomia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 5

James J. Hipwood last week picked up on Tewah Beach (Q.) a tightly-corked bottle containing an excellently-preserved piece of paper on which was clearly written in ink,…

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Abandoned Schooner. Rescue of the Crew. New York. Jan. 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 3

Captain Dean and five of the crew of the schooner Anna Banks, who abandoned the vessel 500 miles south-east of Cape Race, have arrived aboard the steamer…

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Launch of the Euripides. Aberdeen-australian Triple-screw Steamer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 11

The Euripides, a large triple-screw steamer, under construction by Harland and Wo[?], Limited. for messrs. Geo. Thompson and Co., Limited's, passenger and cargo…

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Wreck of the Warrior. Aristocratic Party's Escape. New Orleans, Jan. 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 3

Those on board Mr. Frederick Vanderbilt's steam yacht Warrior, which went ashore on the coast of Colombia, were faced with death for some time…

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German Ship Wrecked. Nineteen Lives Lost. London, Feb. 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 3

The German ship Hera, 1994 tons, while bound for Falmouth, sank off Nare Point, and 19 of the crew were drowned. The Hera struck the rocks at midnight. The…

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Terrible Hardship Shipwrecked Mariners. (By Telegraph.) Fremantle

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 2

Fred Taissunger and August Westermann, members of the chief mate's boat belonging to the wrecked Camberwarra, arrived at Fremantle to-day. They were…

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Collision in Harbor. Excursion Steamer Sinks Motor Launch

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 3

The motor launch Loney was run down and sunk by the ferry steamer Lady Rawson between Dawes Point and Milson's Point shortly after 8 o'clock…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 6

The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer leaves Newcastle for Sydney, awaits the arrival of the train leaving Maitland at 10.10 p.m., leaves…

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Ship Driven Ashore

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 6

The Oklahoma was driven ashore by the terrible storn carly yesterday afternoon, fifteen miles north of sANDY hOOK, THE REPORTING station for vessels entering and…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 6

The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer leaves Newcastle for Sydney, awaits the arrival of the train leaving Maitland at 10.10 p.m., and leaves…

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Message From the Sea. Wreck of Nomia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 9

James J. Hipwood last week picked up on Tewah Beach (Q.) a tightly-corked bottle containing an excellently-preserved piece of paper, on which was clearly written in ink…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 February 1914 · page 7

The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer leaves Newcastle for Sydney, awaits the arrival of the train leaving Maitland at 10.10 p.m., and leaves…

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