Ketch Wrecked. Body Washed Ashore
About two months ago the ketchlly May went dawn off Port Hughes, near Wallaroo (S,A.), but no trace could be found or the bodies of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921
185 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 10
Government Steamer Wrecked. Vancouver, August 2
The Government steamer Canadian Exporter, which made several Australian-trips, has been wrecked. Her back is broken, and she is a…
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The Board of Trade, at its inquiry into the sinking of the British steamer Spathart off the Portuguese coast on April 29. found the chief…
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The fierce westerly gale wrecked the recently-erected grandstand at the Singleton Jockey Club's racecourse at Whittingham yesterday morning. One…
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Captain Whcatherall of the steamer Makamba, which arrived this morning, said that to his mind there was no doubt that the charred…
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Forty-two lives were lost when the steamer Alaska sank after striking a rock in a fog thirty miles north of Eureka, California. There were 130…
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Van[?]ouver, Monaay — The steamer Alaska, bound from San Francisco to Portland, struck a reef in a fog last night, on the Californian coast, and…
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Forty-two lives were lost when the steamer Alaska sank after striking a rock in a fog thirty miles north of Eureka, California. There were 130…
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The Union Castle liner Saxon, on which, General Smuts is returning to South Africa, is reported to be afire in two bunkers…
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The Union Castle liner Saxon; on which General Smuts is returning to South Africa, is reported to be afire in two bunkers…
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Fears are entertained for the safety of the Queensland Government steamer Champion, which left on Friday on a visit to light houses…
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A steamer with 1500 holiday-makers returning from the Isle of Man, grounded near the New Brighton light house on a receding tide, and was…
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When the flood on the Macleay was at its height, a large iron hulk, laden with sleepers and logs, broke adrif from the N.C.S.N. Company's wharf,…
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A message from Chicago states that spurious stock transactions and promotion schemes totalling twenty million dollars have been traced to…
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"Times," London, Wednesday The Dirigible, R 38, exploded at Hull and fell in flames into the Humber. When passing over the city it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wholesale Frauds. American Bank Wreckers Vancouver, August 24
A message from Chicago states that spurious stock transactions and promotion schemes totalling twenty million dollars have been traced to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Wrecked Lumber for Melbourne. (Reuter's Cables.) Vancouver, Thursday Night
The steamer Canadian Import, en route from Vancouver to Melbourne with lumber, was lost off the Oregon [?]ast. There are probably no…
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A steamer with 1500 holiday-makers, returning from the Isle of Man, grounded near the New Brighton lighthouse on a receding tide, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fears for a Steamer. Another Despatched in Search. Brisbane
Fears are entertained for the safety of the Queensland Government steamer Champion, which left on Friday on a visit to light houses…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Canadian Steamer. Still Missing. Great Loss of Life Feared. VANCOUVER. Aug. 28
Some wreckage has been found. and if is feared that the Canadian Importer has foundered with 23 persons aboard…
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