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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905

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Steamer Dorrigo in Distress. Picked Up by Pilot Boat

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

RESIDENTS of Bondi and neighborhood early on Saturday morning were startled by the eight of a steamer firing rockets of distress. The vessel was drifting close in shore, and…

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A New Coastal Steamer

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 5

THE new steamer Coolocn, built for the firm of Messrs. Langley Bron., for the passenger and cargo trade between Sydney and Byron Bay, was taken down the harbor for her…

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Wrecked Submarine Raised

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 10

The ill-fated submarine boat, Al on beings raised was lowed into Portsmouth dockyard. It will be remembered that she foundered…

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A New Coastal Steamer

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 8

The new steamer Cooloon, built for the firm of Messrs Langley Bros., for the passenger and cargo trade between Sydney and Byron Bay, was taken…

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Wreck of the Nambucca

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 8

The small steamer Nambucca, bound from Blenheim for Wellington, ran on Tom's Rock, outside Wellington Heads at 10 o'clock last Monday in a fog. It…

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A New Coastal Steamer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 12

Advices received by the English mail contain accounts of the successful launching of the steamer Noorebar, built to the order of Mr. G. W. Nicoll…

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The Orizaba Ashore. No Lives Lost. Likely to Become a Total Wreck. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 6

The mail steamer Orizaba, inward bound from London, is ashore at Garden Island, 13 miles from Freemantle. The vessel is fully 13 miles out of her…

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A Bicycle Saves a Shipwrecked Crew

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 2

That a bicycle should be of any use to the crew of a drifting and dismasted vessel might seem improbable enough, yet it was to a…

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Wreck of the Orisaba

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 3

THE Orient mail steamer Orizaba went aground at Garden Island, 16 miles from Freemantle, on Thursday last. The passengers and mails Were safely landed…

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New Coastal Steamer

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 8

The Noorbar, a new steel steamer, built by Messrs. Scott and Company, of Kinghorn, Fifeshire, Scotland, to the order of Mr G. W. Nicoll, for the…

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Trial Trip of the Steamer Noorebar

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 12

AT the invitation of Mr. G. W. Nicoll, a representative gathering assembled on board tho new steamer Noorebar on Monday to witness her trial trip down…

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The Wreck of the Orizaba

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

The Orient a.s.Orizaba, which struck Garden Island, near Fremantle, on Thursday week, is aground amidsships, and is bumping heavily…

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Wreck of the Orizaba

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 9

THE Orizaba is likely to become a total wreck. The doomed steamer is on what is known as the five fathom bank, a plateau consisting of sand and weed…

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The Orizaba Wreck

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 12

THE decision of the Marine Court of Inquiry on the charges made against Captain R. Archer in connection with the wreck of the R.M.S. Orizaba off…

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Large Cargo Steamer Wrecked. Off the Nambucca Bar. Sydney

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 2

THE cargo steamer Albany, which left Sydney on Saturday night, struck a rock two miles from the Nambucca Heads, and a mile and a quarter from shore, on Sunday at 3 p.m. -- remaining fast…

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Wreck of the Steamer Albany

Macleay Argus · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 11

OUR Nambucca Heads correspondent wired to us as follows on Monday:--The steamer Albany, owned by the Adelaide Stemship Co. and chartered by the A.U.S.N. Co.,…

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Wreck of the Albany

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

The inhabitants of this locality were greatly surprised on Sunday afternoon, when' word came from the Pilot Station that large steamer was wrecked about one mile north…

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The Wrecked Steamer Albany

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 6

ON Thursday morning last the wrecked steamship Albany was sold by auction in Sydney by Messrs. Fraser, Uther & CO., acting under instructions from the…

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The Wrecked Steamer Pilbarra

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 5

Additional news brought by some of the passengers of the steamer Pilba[?], which has drifted for days among the islands who came on to sydney by the steamer Titus…

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The Steamer Albany—Marine Board Inquiry

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 4

At the Marine Board inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Albany, the court found that the vessel was well found in every way, and after grounding all possible…

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