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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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Steamer Rosedale. [?] Wreck [?]Legraph.] Sydney

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 4

[?]osedale is ashore at the [?]cads. [?]actically a total wreck sengers and crew a…

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Late News By Wire. Sydney, Friday, the Rosdale Ashore

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 9

The steamer Rosdale went ashore at Bellinger Heads. The vessel left Sydney on Monday night and arrived off the bar on Wednesday night. On…

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The Resedale Wrecked

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 4

[?] is ashore at practically a total [?] and crew were…

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Wreck of the Rosedale. Another Bar Disaster. Vessel Abandoned

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 5

THE Bellinger River bar has accounted for another wreck, the Rosedale coining to grief there on Thursday morning last. The Rosedale left…

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Wreck of the S.S. Rosedale

Nambucca News · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

On attempting to cross in last week, in a moderate sea, but in tow, the N.C. Co's steamer Rosedale grounded on the point of the south spit…

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The Aotea Wreck. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

Details regarding the wreck at the steamer Aotea, when en route to New Zealand, show that the vessel While entering port for bunkering purposes…

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Mail Steamer on Fire. Fremantle

Nambucca News · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 4

A fire broke out on board the German mail steamer Barbarossa when she was three days steam from Fremantle. Before arriving at that port…

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Steamer New Guinea Wrecked. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 February 1911 · page 5

The steamer New Guinea, 2474 tons, bound to Sydney, ran ashore at Disaster Bay, Green Cape, early this morning. Latest reports state that…

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A Steamer in Trouble. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 February 1911 · page 5

The over-due steamer Boveric arrived at Auckland yesterday. She was delayed twelve days by tempestuous weather, and ran short of coal…

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Wracked Steamer Sold. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1911 · page 5

The wrecked steamer New Guinea, with cargo valued at £20,000, was sold at auction to-day for £190…

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Wrecked at the Entrance. Schooner Australia Lost. Jeeseyville, Monday FEb. 27

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 8

LAST Wednesday evening the schooner Australia, Owned by Messrs. Allan Taylor and Co., and commanded by Captain Hadloy, was wrecked at the Maeleay…

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Latest Telegrams. Loss of a Ketch. BRISBANE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 5

The Ketch Dart was lost in a heavy storm off Palmerston (Queensland), but the members of the crew were saved…

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Schooner Asks Its Way Across the Ocean

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 2

It is easy enough for a person to [?]d his way across a continent by asking the way of the occasional Passer-by, but it would hardly be…

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Overdue Steamer Yongala

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 5

THE Adelaide S.S. Co.'s steamer Yongala, which left Fiat Top (Q), on Thursday afternoon, and was due at Townsville on Friday, had not arrived on Sunday, and considerable…

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Naturalist. Puss Saved From Shipwreck by Swimming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 5

On Wednesday, March 12, 1873, a [?]t reappeared at the house of a Mrs Mowbray, at Weet Hartlepool, Durham, after having escaped from drowning or starvation by…

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Sunk Steamer

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

In the Thames the steamer Malage sank after a collision with the steamer Balder, fortunately the crew and passengers escaped…

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Steamer Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

During a dense fog in the North Sea and English Channel a Dutch steamer and a Norwegian one collided. The latter turned over, but floated…

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More Yo[?]ain Wreckage. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

On the beach ten miles south of Cape Bowling Green a muntz metal airtight compartment, similar to those under the seats of the Yongala's…

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Yongala Wreck. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

The captain of the steamer Ouraki is convinced the Yongala was wrecked on Nare's Rock, for on a pinnacle below the water was found a piece of…

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Ketch Sinks At Sea

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 2

The wooden ketch Lansdowne, 73 tons, which was built on the Manning River in 1879, sank at sea on Friday while on her voyage from the Nambucen River to Sydney…

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