Schooner Burnt at Sea. Perilous Voyage
Details concerning the burning of the five-masted schooner Crescent, while on a voyage from Sydney to San Francisco last month, have reached Melbourne. The vessel left…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
160 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 8
Torpedoed. Steamer Southborough
The Australian cargo steamer Southborough was torpedoed and sunk in European waters on July 17. In making this announcement, the Acting…
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The Queensland Premier has received a cable message from the Agent-General announcing that one of the Queensland steamers which sailed on July 7, carrying a large…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer's Gun Cripples Submarine. [?]Boat Mistaken for a Rock
A plucky fight was put up a short time age against a U-boat by the captain of a Tyne steamer on his 74th birthday. Just before dan thee submarine rose in thee surface and…
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The Japanese steamer Canada Maru (3760 tons), inward bound with 100 passengers, was wrecked in a fog off Cape Flattery, Salvage vessels have gone out, and are rescuing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N. and H.R.S. Co.'s Steamer Hunter
The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co.'s s.s. Hunter, after a thorough overhaul at Mort's Dock to engines, boilers, and hull —including the relaying of boat decks—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer's Great Fight. Swarm of Submarines. London
Several submarines attacked the White Star liner Justicia. The crew estimates that eight were beaten off in all. she remained afloat over night. Ten were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sea of Fire. Steamer Burnt in Wellington Harbour
A Small coastal steamer, the Defender, was burned in Wellington Harbour (N.Z.), on saturday. She was talking a transhipment of benzine from another vessel at the time…
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Burns, Philp's Island steamer Tambo put into Brisbane on Monday after having been in difficulties since Wednesday last on account of her rudder-post having been broken…
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The Australian ambulance steamer Warhilla, with 800 aboard, including 600 wounded, has been sunk. Over 100 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Schooner Sunk. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Vancouver, Tuesday Night
A Canadian Atlantic port reports that a British schooner has been submarined. The crew were landed…
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While the steamer Pelaw-Main was coming down the river from Hexham on Tuesday night, at about half-past eight o'clock she sheered off the southern bank of the…
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London, Tuesday—The Press Bureau announces that hostile airships approached the East Anglian coast at 9.30 on Monday night, but did not penetrate…
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Burns, Philp's Island steamer Tambe put into Brisbane on Monday after having been in difficulties since Wednesday last on account of her rudder-post having been broken…
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A German submarine sunk a small American steamer off North Carolina…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Steamer Sunk. 18 of Crew Missing. Vancouver, Thursday Night
New York advices state that an American steamer of 3600 tons has been submarined off Cape Hatteras. A boat with 18 of the crew is…
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An Italian naval communique states that submarine FZ crossed the mined areas in the Upper-Adriatic and entered the Gulf of Quarnerolo. The…
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The crew of the John Murray, which was wrecked on Maldon Island, arrived at Melbourne by the relief steamer Macedonia, and were warmly welcomed by their friends…
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The American transport Mount Bernon formerly the Kron Prinzess Cocile, westward bound, was torpedoed. The vessel returned safely to France…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Spanish Steamer. Shelled and Torpedoed. London
Reuter's Paris correspondent says: A submarine shelled and torpedoed another Spanish steamer off the Canaries…
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