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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

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Steamer Hawea Safe

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 6

THE missing steamer Hawca of the Union S.S. Company, which had been drifting for about a month with a broken shaft, was reported on…

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Steamer Capsized in Typhoon

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 4

The steamer Dunearn, bound from Karateu to Singapore, capsized in a typhoon oft Goto Island. Only the third mate and an engineer were…

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Latest Cables. LONDON, Saturday. Steamer Sunk in Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 September 1908 · page 4

According to a report from Rio Janeiro, the British steamer Spartan Prince, from New York, was sunk in a collision at Clara, and fourteen…

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The Missing Steamer Aeon. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 September 1908 · page 2

The steemer, Aeon was wrecked July 18, on the south-east point of Christmas Island. All hands, tot doing some fifty, including four ladies and…

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The Wrecked Steamer Aeon

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

The wrecked steamer Aeon was insured for about £50,000. and the cargo was valued at about £100,000. Another message received last night…

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Wreck of the Steamer Aeon

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

TIDINGS of the San Francisco Australasian trader Aeon, which left San Francisco on July 5, and had not previously been reported, reached…

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Steamer Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

While the steamer Airlie was being towed to sea from Newcastle by the tug Leveret they caine into collision. The Airlic crushed into the Leveret's…

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The Steamer Aeon

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 7

AFTER two months of anxious suspense, the steamer Aeon, bound from San Francisco to Sydney, is reported a wreck on Christmas Island. The loss occurred on July 18. The seven passengers, crew…

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Steamer for the Hastings

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 2

Messes. Wright & Sons, of Tuncurry, have made arrangements to place the new steamer Our Jack in the Hastings River trade, and the boat is expected to take up her running…

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Shipwreck and Loss of Life

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 4

The ship Loch Finglas from Port Pirie, bound to Cabllao, South America, has been wrecked on the Tasmanian coast…

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Steamer "Our Jack."

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 2

BY advertisement it will be seen that the above-named steamer will commence her regular running to this river next week, leaving Sydney tm Wednesday, Oct. 7th, and…

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Steamer for the Hastings

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 10

Messrs. Wright and Sons, of Tuncu[?]ry, have made arrangements to place the new steamer Our Jack in the Hastings River trade, and the…

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Loch Finlas Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 7

THE inquiry under the Wrecks Inquiry Act, concerning the loss of the Loch Finlas, on Foster Island, was commenced on Monday. The evidence of two of the rescued crew was taken, both stating…

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Wreck of the Bonnie

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 12

FOR SALE AT AUCTION.—To-day at eleven o'clock, the ferry boat "Bonnie," damaged in the accident of Thursday, and now tied up at the foot of…

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French Schooner Wrecked

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 October 1908 · page 4

Captain Ybert, the sole survivor of twenty-six belonging to the French schooner Juanita, which was wrecked on Newfoundland, gives a thrilling…

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Bulgarian Steamer Stopped

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 October 1908 · page 4

The Turkish forts on the Bosphorus, firing blank cartridges, stopped a Bulgarian steamer flying the Bulgarian royal flag…

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The Steamer "Karuah."

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 10

We are advised, under date 12th October, that the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co,, Ltd. have been informed by cable of the arrival…

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Steamer Stopped on the Danube

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

The Austrians stopped a steamer on the Danube with munitions for Servia. Three batteries of quickfiring guns were similarly stopped notwithstanding…

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Army Aeroplane Wrecked

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

While experiments were being carried out with an army aeroplane at Aldershot it fell twenty feet and was wrecked. Colonel Cody, who was on…

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Barque Fifeshire Wrecked

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

News received this morning states that the barque Fifeshire bound from Newcastle to Portland has been wrecked off the Gilbert Islands. She…

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