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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1915

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Norwegian Steamer Attacked. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 5

German aeroplanes, proceeding towards Calals, dropped 500 darts directed at the Norwegian steamer Diana, bound for Shields, many of which struck the vessel…

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The Submarines. British Steamer Sunk. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 5

A German submarine sank the British steamer Delmira, near Boulogne, bound for the channel. The crew were saved. The crew of the Delmira, numbering 32…

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Bombing a Steamer. Exciting Encounter. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 3

A German Taube dropped bombs from the steamer Teal in the North Sea, fired twenty rounds from a machine gun, and showered down, steel darts…

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Taubes at Sea. Attack on Steamer. Amsterdam, March 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

A Taube aeroplane in the North Sea aimed three or four bombs at the steamer Elfiante, laden with grain for the Belgian Relief Commission, but missed…

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The Carpathians. Przemysl. Russian Rejoicings. Constantinople. Dutch Steamer Sunk

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 5

The struggle between the Russians and the Germans and Austrians still continues in the Carpathians. It is announced that the authorities have…

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Six Forts Wrecked. Rome, March 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 3

The Tenedos correspondent of the "Tribuna" says that the Allied fleet wrecked six forts on Thursday. The Turkish losses were very heavy…

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Sunk by Shell Fire. Liverpool Steamer. London, March 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 5

The Liverpool steamer Vosges has been sunk by shell fire off the Cornish coast. The engineer was killed, and three of the crew were injured by shrapnel…

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Torpedoed. Dutch Steamer Lost

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 4

London. Friday.—The German submarine U28 sank the steamer Medea, 1235 tons, south of Beachy Head. The crew were saved…

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Another Dutch Steamer Lost

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 5

The Admiralty announces that the Dutch steamer Amstet was mined and sunk off Flamborough…

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Attempt to Blow Up Steamer. Paris, March 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

Raymond Swoboda has been arrested incriminating documents which were found in his possession, showed that he had a mission to blow up the steamer La…

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For Trying to Escape. Steamer's Crew Fired On

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 2

The steamer Aguila (2114, tons) has been sunk by a submarine off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Twenty-six of those on board are missing…

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Norwegian Steamer Attacked. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 12

German aeroplanes, proceeding towards Calais, dropped 500 darts directed at the Norwegian steamer Diana, bound for Shields, many of which struck the vessel…

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British Steamer Sunk. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 12

A German submarine sank the British steamer Delmira, near Boulogne, bound for the channel. The crew were saved. The crew of the Delmira, numbering 32,…

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Seized Steamer. Christian Bors at Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 7

Particulars of the seizure of the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors, a vessel well-known in Australian waters, were received by the E. and A. Company's steamer…

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Submarines. French Steamer Torpedoed. London, April 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 5

The French steamer Emma was torpedoed near Beachy Head without warning. Seventeen persons are missing. "Lloyd's Register" mentions two French…

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American Steamer. Sank in Mid Atlantic. New York, March 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 12

The American steamer Denver, while returning from Bremerhaven, sank in midocean in the Atlantic. The transport liner Manhattan rescued…

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Steamer Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 3

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 for…

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Italian Steamer Sunk. Rome, April. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 5

The Italian steamer Luigi Parodi, from Baltimore, is regarded as lost. The newspapers attribute her loss to a German submarine in the Atlantic, stating that the…

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The Steamer Banffshire. London, April 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 5

The steamer Banffshire, which for many years traded to Australia, is at Last Palmas, repairing leaky boiler tubes…

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Vessel Wrecked. London, April 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 5

The Avanti Savoia, laden with nitrates, and hound from, iquique to the Tyne, has been wreck at Culswich, in the Shetland Islands…

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