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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909

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New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Dutch Steamer Floated Off

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 3

News has been received that the Royal Batch Packet Company's steamer Yanspilborgen, which ran ashore at Newton Island, had been floated off at high tide…

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Wreck of the Orleans Sufferings of the Survivous. Hobart

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 June 1909 · page 5

Four members of the crew of the wrecked Norwegian barque Orleans, which was wrecked off the coast of Tasmania last Friday week, are in the hospital suffering…

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Shocking Ship Wreck. Story of Slow Starvation the Loss of the Barque Errol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 July 1909 · page 2

The Union Company's steamer Tolua, front the Islands, arrived in Sydney Harbor this morning, bringing five surveyors which had been received from the wreck…

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Story of the Wreck

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 25

It was at midnight on 18th June that the Errol crashed on to the horseshoe shaped shoal known as Middleton Roef, and within a few hours she was a hopeless…

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Terrible Shipwreck Seventeen Lives Lost. Only Five Survivors. Fearful Privations. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 25

A sensational story of the sea to unfolded this morning, When the Union Shipping Company's island steamer Tofua steamed into port with five distressed…

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Terrible Shipwreck. Seventeen Lives Lost. Fearful Privations. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 2

A sensational story of the sea was unfolded on Wednesday morning, when the Union Shipping Company's island steamer Tofua steamed into port with…

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Palatial Australian Steamer. the Karoola's Speed Trials. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 2

The new steamer Kuroola, which has been bull to the order of M'llwralth, M'Erchern and Co., Ltd., at Belfa[?]t, has [?] very satisfactory Irlal trips…

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The Wreck of the Errol Fortnight Lost in Rescue

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 5

From a story told to the "Register" by a gentleman now in Adelaide it would seem that the wreck of the ill fated Norweglan barque Errol on Middleton Reef, in the…

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The Wreck of the Errol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 5

An [?] into the cause of the wreck of the Norwegian barque Errol on the Middleton [?] last month was opened at he offices of the Norwegian Consulate to…

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Submarine Disaster. Run Down by a Steamer. Thrilling Escapes. London, July 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 42

News Has just been received of a disastrous collision between submarines C11 and C11, off Yarmouth. Submarine C17 was sunk, and 16 men were drowned…

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The Errol Wreck

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 32

The survivors from the wreck of the Errol related that two days before they were rescued by the Tofua a steamer passed so close to them that not only her…

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Adrift in the South Seas. Sailor's Trying Experience with Ship-wreck and Hunger

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 6

A walk of 230 miles, the weathering of a cyclone on a bamboo raft, and an existence of three weeks on turtle eggs find iguanas are some of the…

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Steamer and Tug in Collision. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 August 1909 · page 3

[?] this afternoon a collision occurred between the steamer Colac and the tug Leveret, in which sine of the plate of the Colac were damaged the…

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Missing Steamer Proves to Be Safe. Thursday Island

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 August 1909 · page 2

The steamer Chillagee, which was reported to be overdue at, Thursday Island from Dutch New Gulnen, is safe. She was sighted this morning by the erniser…

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The Missing Waratah Still No News. the Absence of Wreck Age. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 2

The owners of the missing steamer Waratah state that, in view of the heavy weather, they do not consider the dealy in the steamer reporting herself to be cause…

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The First Lifeboat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 12

Some may be surprised to learn that the first lifeboat, especially of the style of those adopted at the present time, is still in existence at Red-car, in Yorkshire, Eng…

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Overdue Steamer. Warata[?] for Cape Town. London, August 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 42

Reuter's Agency at Durban reports that alarm is felt owing to the fact that the steamer Waratah, the latest addition to Land's Blue Anchor fleet, which left Port…

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Empire Communications. Sir Joseph Ward Interviewed Cable Rates and Steamer Services. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 2

Sir, Joseph Ward, Prime Minster of N.Z., in an interview yesterday, outlined his views on the question of reducing cable rates…

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Wreck of the Maori Forty Seven of the Crew Drowned Only Eight Survivors Grim Discipline in the Face of Death. [?] Sinks in Four Minutes. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 2

New has been received of the wreck of the Shaw, savill, and Allson Company's steamer [?], 5317 ton., which left London on July 6 for [?], via Hobart,…

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Langton Orange Ashore. Opening Up Amidships. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 August 1909 · page 2

Another shipping mishap is reportell. News has been received that the steamer Longton Chango (9802 tons gross) of the [?] met with [?]on the…

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