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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917

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French Steamer Sunk. Only Four Victims

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

Paris, Monday.—A cruiser has been submarined and sunk in the Mediterranean. The vessel sank in half an hour. Owing to perfect discipline and…

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Steamers Wrecked. London, Wednesday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Sh[?] states that deaths of the wreek in a blizzard of the Japanese steamer Hlaakaka Maru (?) off [?] on Christmas Day show that owing…

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Lost Transport Steamer Missing 153. LONDON, Friday Morning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

The Admiralty sates that the men missing from the [?] submarined in the Mediterranean, number 120, with 33 members of the crow are unaccounted for…

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French Mail Steamer. Under Submarine Fire. Madrid

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 5

The French mail steamer Ville d'Havie sent a wireless to Spanish stations that she was being shelled by a submarine The messages continued for twenty-three…

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Balkans Bridge Wrecked. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 5

Admiralty naval acroplanes. attacked and wrecked one span of the Li[?] Burgas rail-way bridge over the Maritza River…

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Wreck of Matai on Reef at Raratonga. Passengers, Cargo, and Mails Saved. Ship in Very Bad Position. (By Cable.) Auckland

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

Details of the loss of the Union Coy's steamer Matai at Raratonga, in the Cook Island group, were received today. The Matai was bound to…

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Lost Transport Steamer Missing 153. LONDON, Friday Morning

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 12

The Admiralty states that the men missing from the Ivernia submarined in the Mediteranean, number 120, while 33 members of the crew are unaccounted for…

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French Mail Steamer. Under Submarine Fire. Madrid

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 12

The French mail steamer Ville d'Havre sent a wireless to Spanish stations that she was being shelled by a submarine. The messages continued for twenty-three…

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Balkans Bridge Wrecked. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 13

Admiralty naval aeroplanes attacked and wrecked one span of the Lile Burgas railway bridge over the Martiza River…

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Steamers Wrecked. London, Wednesday night

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 12

Reuters correspondent at Shanghai states that details of the wreck in a blizzard of the Japanese steamer Hinakaka Maru[?] off Chee-foo on Christmas Day show that owing…

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Austrian Steamer Sunk. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 5

[?] steamer Zagreh was submarined off Central Dalmatia. Twenty-six were lost. Brookwood (British), Tholmn (Nonwegian)…

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Austrian Steamer Sunk. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 2

The Vienna steamer Zagreb was submarined off Central Dalmatia. Twenty-six were lost. Brookwood (British), Tholma…

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Two More Victims. British Sailer and Danish Steamer. (Australian Cable Assn. Message) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 4

The sinkings of the British sailer Kimpurney, 1944 tons, and the Danish steamer Omsk, 1574 tons, are reported…

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Australian Steamer Sunk. Port Nicholson's Fate

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 1

The Commonwealth and Dominion liner Port Nicholson, formerly the Make riei, has been sunk, and, according to the particulars received by the Sydney…

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Enemy Raiders. Captured Steamer Used. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

The Pernambuco correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Co. telegraphs that the captured crews of vessels which have been sunk by tho German…

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German Steamer Scuttled. Vangouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 5

A message from Charleston states that the German steamer Liovenfels, which has been tied up since the war started, began slowly sinking, and apparently had been se[?]…

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Spanish Steamer Sunk

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 5

The Spanish steamer Dosdenovelmbre has been sunk, and one of the crew was drowned…

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American Steamer Sunk. Housatonic Torpedoed. Full Warning Given. Vancouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 5

The America steamer Housatonic has been sunk. LONDON, Sunday. The steamer Housatonic was submarined…

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Schooner Ashore. Crew Saved

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 6

The four-masted [?] kona ran ashore at the Scrapers, Kangaroo Island, on Satur-day morning. The Port Adelaide life-silving crow was sent to the scene, and a lifeboat…

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American Steamer Sails

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 2

New York, Sunday.—The s.s. Adriatic, has sailed for Europe with 44 passengers, amid great cheering. An attempt has been made to wreek…

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