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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1915

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French Steamer. Sunk by Austrian Submarine. Marseilles, Oct. 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1915 · page 2

An Austrian submarine sank the French steamer Provincia (3523 tons) off Cerigo the Greek Island of Kythera, one of the leman Islands). The crew was landed…

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Constantinople Riot. Italian Embassy Wrecked Rome

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 October 1915 · page 5

Reports from Sa[?] indicate that [?] at Constantinople wrecked the Italian Embassy and the Turkish police did not interfere. The United States Ambassador lodged…

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Mysterious Steamer. Apprehended by Dutch. a Pacific Peril. San Francisco, Oct. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1915 · page 6

Press reports arriving from the Dutch East Indies indicate that a mysterious steamer named the Maverick, which was apprehended there through the agency of Dutch warships…

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New Steamer for the Paterson Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1915 · page 4

The building of the steamship Allyn by Mr. G. A. Washington having been completed to the order of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Limited, the vessel will leave for…

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Steamer Torpedoed. Paris, Oct. 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 October 1915 · page 5

The Messageries Maritimes steamer Yunnan (6174 tons) was torpedeod. The crew were landed…

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Torpedoed Steamer. Norwegian Skipper's Experienced

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 8

There is in port at Newcastle at the present time a master mariner who has had the experience of a vessel under his command being torpedoed by a German…

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British Steamer Sunk. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 13

The British steamer Arabia has been sunk, There were twenty survivors…

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Mysterious Steamer. Apprehended by Dutch. a Pacific Peril. San Francisco, Oct. 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 3

Press reports arriving from the Dutch East Indies indicate that a mysterious steamer named the Maverick, which was apprehended there through the agency of Dutch warships,…

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Constantinople Riot. Italian Embassy Wrecked. Rome

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 3

Reports front Salonica indicate that rioters at Constantinople wrecked the Italian Embassy, and the Turkish police did not interfere. The United States Ambassador lodged…

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Steamer Traffic to Port Stephens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 4

Intending passengers for Port Stephens are notified by the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co. that no passenger will be accepted on Tuesday next from Sydney…

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Norwegian Steamer. Suspicious Movements. Copenhagen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 5

The Norwegian steamer Sira, with 6,000 bales of cotton, has left Gothenburg bound towards copenhagen. She took abroad an uncertificated pilot. The Sira entered the…

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Enemy Warship. Sunk by Ferry Steamer. Coperhagen, Oct. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1915 · page 6

A German ferry steamer from Trelleborg (on the Swedish coast, 15 miles south-east of Majama,) without lights, collided with a large German torpedo destroyer. The latter…

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Submarines. French Steamer Sunk. Paris, Oct. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 October 1915 · page 5

The steamer Amiral Hamelin, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, received no warning. The submarine fired 40 shells while the crew and the passengers were embarking…

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Submarine Fires on Steamer. Attack Without Warning

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1915 · page 2

Paris, Monday Evening.—The steamer Amiral Hamelin, 5051 tons, recently sunk by a submarine, in the Mediterranean, was given no warning. The…

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Enemy Submarine Lost. Wrecked in the Danube

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1915 · page 2

London, Tuesday Night.—An Amsterdam message says that a German submarine is reported to have been wrecked in the Danube…

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German Wreckage

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1915 · page 2

London, Tuesday Night.—A Copenhagen, message states that wreckage from a German vessel has been washed ashore at Acroe Island, off Denmark…

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Vessel Wrecked. on Irish Coast. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 October 1915 · page 5

The French ship Admiral Couvat, bound for New Zealand, has been driven ashore at Kinsale Head, Queenstown in a fierce gale. The crew was saved…

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A Drift in Lifeboat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 October 1915 · page 2

When the shock of the torpedo striking the Arabic knocked Miss Tewksbury, daughter of Mr. P. W. Tewksbury, of the Oriental Hotel,…

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British Steamer Sunk. Amsterdam

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 October 1915 · page 5

Germans have sunk the British steamer Aukiris, detained in Hamburg since the outbreak of the war. After a meeting of the Federal Cabinet…

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Steamer Torpedoed. Paris. Oct. 13

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 October 1915 · page 13

The Messageries Maritimes steamer Yun[?] (6474 tons) was torpedoed. The crew Bine landed…

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