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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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The Tomki Wreck. £600 Worth of Gear Recovered

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 3

SALVAGE operations at the wreck of the steamer Tomki, in the Richmond River, have been carried out during the past couple of weeks under the direction of Mr. G. W. Whatmore, and altogether £600…

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Swedish Ship Wrecked

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 11

The Swedish ship, Alfheld, bound from Rio de Janeir to Hobart, was wrecked off the west coast of Tasmania during a terrific storm on…

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Castaways Die of Starvation. Survivors From Wreck of Alfheld

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 October 1907 · page 3

The search party in the steamer Koonookarra, which went to the assistance of the seamen who landed in the vicinity of Port Davy from the…

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Steamer Trilby Aground

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 October 1907 · page 3

WHILE crossing the Port Macquaric bar on Wednesday, the steamer Trilby of 129 tons, owned by Mr. Nicholas Cain, timber laden, bound to Sydney,…

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The Trilby Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1907 · page 2

By the steamer Pyrmont. on Friday last, Captain Spinks (representing the Underwriters) with assistants and appliances, arrived in Fort Macquarie for the purpose…

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The Trilby Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1907 · page 2

By the steamer Pyrmont on Friday last, Captain Spinks (representing the Under writers) with assistants and appliances, arrived in Port Macquarie for the purpose…

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Baby on a Wreck. Thrown From the Deck to a Tossing Boat

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

How an English baby, 16 months old, was thrown from the poop of a wrecked ship into a lifeboat while a heavy sea was running, and how it…

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The Alfheld Wreck

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 October 1907 · page 11

The body of the captain of the ill-fated barque Alfheld, wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, has been washed ashore on Gold Diggers'…

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The Trilby Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 November 1907 · page 7

The wreck of the steamer Trilby, as it lies on the bar at Fort Macquarie, was sold in Sydney on Friday last. The purchasers were Messrs. Einerson Bros., of Balmain, and the…

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The Trilby Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 November 1907 · page 5

The wreck of the steamer Trilby, as it lies on the bar at Port Macquarie, was sold in Sydney on Friday last. The purchasers were Messrs. Einerson Bros., of Balmain, and the…

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Short Story. Among the Wreckage

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 November 1907 · page 9

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took me some years ago behind the scenes of [?] Dru[?] Lane [?] Theatre while the great battle scene in one of…

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The Trilby Wreck

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 November 1907 · page 6

The wreck of the steamer Trilby, as it lies on the bar at Port Macquarie, was sold in Sydney. The purchasers, were…

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North Coast Company. New Steamer Yulgilbar

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 11

THE North Coast Co's. new steamer Yulgilbar -- specially built for the Macleay trade -- arrived in Sydney on Tuesday morning last. The…

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Shipwrecked on a Cannibal Island

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 19

A cake of soap is said to have saved the lives of five men and a boy off the coast of New Guinea. The story, as told in the smoking-room…

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Tug Sunk by Steamer. Collision in Darling Harbor

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE excitement occurred in Darling Harbor early on Saturday morning, when the Currie liner Euryalus, inward bound from Calcutta, sank the Warung, one of Mr. James Wallace's fleet of tugs,…

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North Coast Co. Banquet on Board the Steamer Yulgilbar

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 10

IN honor of the first trip of the Yulgilbar to the Macleay the directors of the North Coast Co. entertained a number of residents on board the new steamer…

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The New Steamer Yulgilbar. Arrival at Kempsey. Description of the Boat

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 12

THE steamship Yulgilbar, built expressly for the Macleay trade, crossed the bar for the first time on Sunday morning last, and on her…

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Wreck of the Trilby. Master's Certificate Suspended

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 4

Frederick Thomas Gray, matter of the Trilby appeared before the Marine Court— Judge Backhouse, and Captains J. V. Hall and J. Mackenzie, assessors—to show cause…

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When Paul, the Apostle, Was Shipwrecked

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 3

On one of his visits to his village home. Admiral Gainsborough attended the pariah church. The lesson was from that portion of Scripture that…

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Wreck of the Trilby. Master's Certificate Suspended

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 4

Frederick Thomas Gray, master of the Tri[?] appeared before the Marine Court—Judge Backhouse, and Captains J. V. Hall and J. Mackenzie, assessors—to show cause…

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