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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1914

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Big Liner Ashore. This Roma's Experience. New York, Feb. 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 February 1914 · page 2

The Fabre Steamship Company's trans-Atlantic liner Roma (5291 tons), with 400 passengers aboard, from Marseilles, was driven ashore in a blizzard on the rocky…

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Wreck of a Basque. Four Men Frozen to Death. (By Cable.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 February 1914 · page 2

The Italian barque Castagna struck the outer bar at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The crew of eleven lashed themselves…

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Ship Driven Ashore

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 14
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The Oklahoma was driven ashore by the terrible storm early yesterday afternoon, fifteen miles north of Sandy Hook, the reporting station for vessels entering and…

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Big Liner Ashore. the Roma's Experience. New York, Feb. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

The Fabre Steamship Company's trans-Atlantic liner Roma (5291 tons), with 400 passengers aboard, from Marseilles, was driven ashore in a blizzard on the rocky…

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Big Liner Ashore. the Roma's Experience. New York, Feb. 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

The Fabre Steamship Company's trans Atlantic liner Roma (5291 tons), with 400 passengers aboard, from Marseilles, was driven ashore in a blizzard on the rocky…

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Thrilling Tale of the Sea. Wrecked Off Dutch Borneo. Bombay, Jan. 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 February 1914 · page 6

A thrilling tale of the sea, flavoured With an atmosphere of fiction, is told by two American seamen from the Glasgow-owned steamer Marie Ellen, who are now in…

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Wreck of the Mexico. Lifeboat Crew Drowned. London, Feb. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 5

This has been one of the most tempestuous week-ends that have been experienced for some tome, the whole British coast being swept by gales…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 6

The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer leaves Newcastle for Sydney, awaits the arrival of the trait leaving Maitland at 10,10 p.m., and leaves…

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Steamer Founders. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 5

The Danish steamer Ekhphka, from Tyne to Cugliari, foundered during a gale in the Bay of Biseay. Eleven were rescued, and ten, including the captain, were drowned…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 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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French Cruiser Ashore. Paris, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 5

The cruiser Waldeck-Rousseu is ashore in the Guff of Jouan of the south coast. She is deeply embedded in the mud, and her machinery is reported to be seriously damaged…

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Grouding of Steamer. Captain Called Upon. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 2

Captain Keats, master of the steamer Wear, been called upon by the Marine Court to show cause why his certificate should not be cancelled or…

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Deported Labor Leaders. Arrival in England. Men Refuse to Leave Steamer. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 3

The s.s. Umgeni, with the deported labour leaders from South Africa, arrived at Gravesend at half-past, seven o'clock tins morning…

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British Steamer Founders

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 2

News is to hand that the British steamer County of Devon, with a cargo of timber, has been lost in Mid-Atlantic, but all the members of her crew are safe…

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Lifeboat Crew Drowned. London, Feb. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 3

This has been one of the most tempestuous week-ends that have been experienced for some time, the whole British coast being swept by gales…

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Storm at Bowraville. Lighting Wrecks a Home

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 7

Mrs. C. O. Watt, wife of a dairyman, had a wonderfully narrow escape from being killed during a severe storm, which visited Bowraville on Monday afternoon…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 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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Storm at Bowraville. Lightning Wrecks a Home

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 7

Mrs. C. C. Watt, wife of a dairyman, had a wonderfully narrow escape from being killed during a severe storm, which visited Bowraville on Monday afternoon…

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Lightning Wrecks a Home

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 1

Mrs C.C. Watt, wife of a dairyman, had a wonderfully narrow escape from being killed during a severe storm, which visited Bowraville on Monday…

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