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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

44 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 3

Wreck of a Steamer. All on Board Saved. a Terrible Experience. London, January 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 27

The French mail steamer Russia, 2,015 tons, owned by the Societe Generale de Transport Maritimes a Vapeur, bound from Oran, the most western port of Algeria, for…

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Wreck of a Steamer. All on Board Saved. a Ferrible Experience. London, January 11

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 3

The French mail steamer Russie, 2013 tons, owned by the Societe Generale de Transport Maritimes a Vapear, bound from Oran, the most western port of Algeria, for…

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H.M.S. Sybille Ashore. a Total Wreck. London, January 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 34

The second-class crusier, Sybille, 8 guns, 3400 tons, which recently landed a force of bluejackets and some guns at Lambert Bay, north of Table Bay, has gone ashore at…

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Foundered oft the Coast

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 1

There was not much bad weather along the coast on Saturday night if one might judge by the telegraphic…

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The Wreck of the Rio De Janiero London

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 2

A list of the drowned in the wreck of Rio de Janeiro include an American consul who was going to Hong Kong with his wife and family. Captain Ward went…

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Appalling Shipwreck. 150 Lives Lost

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 28 February 1901 · page 1

A lamentable shipwreck, involving an appalling loss of life, is reported from San Francisco. The ill-fated vessel was the iron…

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Appalling Shipwreck. a Steamship on the Rooks. 104 Lives Lost. London, February, 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 27

A lamentable shipwreck, involving an appalling loss of life, is reported from San Francisco. The ill-fated vessel was the iron screw…

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Short Story Among the Wreckage

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 1

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took…

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Fire on a Mail Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 29

The R.M.S. Austral, which arrived at Hobart on Friday from Sydney for an apple cargo, reported that at noon on the previous day when 90 miles south of Gabo Island…

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Supposed Shipping Disaster. Wreckage Found. Possibility of a Collision

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 3

STARLING news regarding the discovery of wreckage on the foreshore near Gabo Island has been followed by a series of telegrams, indefinite in themselves, but…

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The Perils of the Sea. No News of the Steamer Federal

The Independent · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 6

The last ray of hope that the steamer Federal may have survived the gale was dispelled on Tuesday night, when the clothing belonging to the dead man found…

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Wreck of the Karrakatta

The Independent · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 7

The schooner Alto, Frank Biddies master, arrived at Broome on Monday morning from Cygnet Bay, having on board 121 shipwrecked people, being almost nearly all the…

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Jewellery Robbery on a Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 31

News was received in Sydney on Friday of a jewellery robbery on the Kasuga Maru, which left Sydney for Japan on March 28. A saloon passenger, before leaving here, packed…

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Libel on Australians. a Newspaper Office Wrecked. London, April 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 26

Some of the Australian troops, who left Cape Town by the steamer Tongariro, caused a slight disturbance before their embarkation…

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Wreckage

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 29

Two life-buoya now in possesion of Mr. C W. Maclean, engineer for ports and harbors, Melbourne, are occasioning him some mental exercise. One of them has upon it the names…

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The Sunken Steamer Forester

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 29

An unsuccessful and somewhat farcical attempt was made at Tocumwal on Friday to raise the Government steamer Forester, which sunk at her moorings about a fortnight ago…

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Pickpockets Oh the Manly Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 June 1901 · page 28

Sub-inspector Mitchell went down to Manly by the steamer Brighton, for a "blow" doubtless. he was in private clothes, and seemed a harmless-looking gentleman enough; but, for…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 3

NO[?] can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1801," he [?] I first experienced the miseries of [?] indigestion. I was…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 4

NOBODY can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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Wrecked on Chesterfiel Reef

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 2

Nobody can tell the following, story better than the writer tells it himself. “In 1861,” he says, “I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to knock…

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