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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1912

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Steamer Pearl, Capsizes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 3

Considerable excitement, prevailed at Grafton on Thursday, when news was conveyed that the river steamer Pearl, a regular trader to…

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A New Zealand Wreck

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 14

A cable from Auckland states that from the latest report regarding the Star of Canada, which is ashore at Gisborne, is to the effect that the…

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Nambucca's Parlous Plight "No Steamer for Weeks."

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 8

Owing to the serious condition of the bar, the crew of the steamer Our Elsie, owned by Ellis Bros were. paid bf on Tuesday, and left for…

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Bad Weather. Ketch Candidate Supposed to Be Wrecked

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 14

THE beginning of this week was marked with wild weather and nearly four inches of rain was registered at Kempsey…

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The Steamer Macquarie

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 7

THE s.s. Macquarie returned to Port Macquarie on Sunday last, after an enforced absence of a little over a week. She left the river on the previous Saturday night at 6 o'clock, and met with…

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The Bellinger Wreck

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 2 August 1912 · page 4

The frequent agitations and representations to the Government to have the Bellinger wreck at Namtoucca Beads blown up, have, at last, borne…

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The Ketch Candidate

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 11

All hopes for the safety of the ketch Candidate, which sailed from Trial Bay to her doom some few weeks ago, have been abandoned…

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The Bellinger Wreck

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 5
Also in Macleay Argus

At the Marine Court, Sydney, on Thursday last the finding arrived at was that the wreck of the Bellinger was caused by a series of unfortunate…

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Awful Shipwreck

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 September 1912 · page 11

The ship Crewith Castle, bound from Peru to Antwerp, met with an awful gale off Cape Horn and she foundered. The crew took to the…

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Steamer Comboyne Sinks

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 7

The steamer Comboyne (at one time trading to Camden Haven) whilst trying to put into Port Kembla Harbor on Sunday, struck the end of the eastern breakwater, and a hole of considerable size…

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New Boat for the Bellinger. the Steamer Tambar

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 September 1912 · page 14

THE new steamer for the Bellinger trade--the Tambar--crossed in at the Bellinger heads on Tuesday of last week. The Tambar is of 420 tons burthen, and…

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Loss of the Ketch Candidate

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1912 · page 4

THE inquiry into the loss of the ketch Candidate was concluded before the Marine Court last week. The owners of the ketch were Messrs. Allen Taylor and Co., Limited, of P[?], and the certificated…

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Wreck of the Comboyne

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 14

The Marine Court inquiry into the foundering of the steamer Comboyne, after striking the Port Kembla breakwater, was concluded…

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New River Steamer. Launched at Jerseyville on

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 October 1912 · page 3

JERSEYVILLE was en fete on Monday, the occasion being the launching of Mr. J. L. Baldwin's new boat From about 9.30 a.m. the people began to…

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