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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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Barque Ashore

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 3

The barqae Ellen Hyline drifted ashore Dear Tamas Heads, Tasmania, and it is feared sue will become a total wreck. The crew were saved…

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Wrecked

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 3

The Pacific Company's steamer City of Panama has been wrecked at California, Seventy passengers and thirty of the crew are missing…

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Struck a Sunken Rock. Mishap to the Steamer Rosedale

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 10

A DENSE fog off the North Coast at the beginning of the week was responsible for a serious mishap to the steamer Rosedale, one of the best known…

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Mishap to the Steamer Rosedale. Struck a Sunken Rock

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 6

A DENSE fog off the North Coast was responsible for a serious mishap to the steamer Rosedale, one of the best known steamers of the North Coast S. N. Company's line. The vessel was on her weekly trip to…

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Perils of the Sea. Struck a Sunken Rock. Mishap to the Steamer Rosedale

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 5

A dense fog off the North Coast was responsible for a serious mishap to the steamer Rosedale, one of the best known steamers of the North Coast…

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Mishap to a Schooner. the Alma Doepel Beached

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 4

THE well-known coasting schooner Alma Doepel met with a serious mishap at the Bellinger River on Monday, as a result of which the vessel had to be beached…

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The Elingamite Wreck

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 6

With reference to the recovery of £1700 of the Elingamite's treasure, the diver found the vessel in twelve fathoms of water on the rock pinnacle…

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Terrible Story of the Sea. Wreck of the Ship Great Admiral

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 11

News was received, by the R.M.S. Aorangi of the wreck of the American ship Great Admiral, a vessel-known in Sydney, and of a perilous experience…

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Capsize on the Forster Bar. Loss of the Steamer Thistle. Feb, 19

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 16 February 1907 · page 4

IT is with regret we have to record the total lose of the steamer Thistle, which has been for a considerable time in the lobster trade. The Thistle left here on Saturday last for Diamond…

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Mishap to a Steamer. Rosedale's Captain to Show Cause

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 3

An inquiry into the circumstances attending tho striking of the North Coast Steamship Company's steamer Rosedale, on a sunken rock off Port…

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The Steamer Thistle

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 February 1907 · page 4

The steamer Thistle, which capsized on the Foster bar on Tuesday week, has become a total wreck. She was a wooden steamer of about 50 tons,…

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The Steamer Rosedale

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 5

CAPTAIN JOHN OSCAR ANDERSON master of the North Coast Company's steamer Rosedale, appeared before the Marine Court—Judge Murray…

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Steamer Hastings off Manly. a Trying Experience

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 5

SOME commotion was caused at Watson's Bay on Saturday afternoon when the gale was at its height, by the receipt of a telephone message at South Head Signal Station from e resident of Manly…

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New Steamer Founders. Crew of Twenty-four Lost

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 4

Further particulars at a marine disaster cabled on the 19th December are given in the "Westminster Gazette", are as folows:—…

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The Suevic. Ashore Near the Lizard Chance of Getting Her Off Splendid Discipline

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 4

The White Star Liner, Suevic, of 12,500 tons, Captain T. J. Jones, which left Sydney on January 20 for London and Liverpool, on Sunday…

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White Star Liner Suevic Wrecked. All Hands Saved. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 5

The White Star liner Suevic, from Sydney to Liverpool, is a wreck under the lighthouse at the Lizard, on the coast of Cornwall --having got out of her course during a fog, and struck on the Brandies…

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Steamer Hastings in Peril. a Trying Experience

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 13

SOME commotion was caused at Watson's Bay on Saturday afternoon week when the gale was at it's height by the receipt of a telephone message at South Head…

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Misadventures in a Fog. Excursion Steamer Ashore

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 5

The Welsh excursion steamer Albion, from Newport to Bristol, with 500 passengers, ran ashore during a fog on Tuesday on the rocks near Portshead,…

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Steamer Sinks a Pleasure Launch. Ten Lives Lost

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 5

A THERE [?] accident happened on the River Tamar, Tasmania, on Easter Monday night, involving the loss of ten lives. A party of 10 were returning to Launceston in a small steam launch, when the little craft crossed the…

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Steamer Suevic Cut in Half. After End Towed to Southampton

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 5

The stranded steamer Suevic has been severed, and the after-portion of the vessel, which was not making water, is being towed to Southampton…

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