A Mine Sighted Steamer's Close Call
Some days ago the collier steamer Werribee was bound from Newcastle to Melbourne, when the third officer, who was on the bridge, noticed a…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917
205 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 11
Explosives Works Wrecked
London, Thursday.—It is stated officially that an explosion wrecked the buildings of an explosives works north of London. No lives were lost…
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Mr. Alec, Cameron, of Edon, has taken to Bega a portion of the outer casing of a mine which recently exploded on the rocks near Black Head, 30 miles south of Eden…
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An enquiry was opened by the Melbourne Coroner into the explosion on an overseas steamer, at Victoria Dock, on December 16, as a result of which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japanese Steamer Sunk. Food Cargo Lost. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Capetown, Thursday Night
A steamer has arrived with part of the crew of the Japanese steamer Mayorl Maru, which was sunk off the coast of Spain on October 20. She was loaded…
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