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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909

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German Steamer Ashore at Naples

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 2

The gales and storms which were recently reported from Northern Europe seem also to have been experienced in the South. The North German Lloyd steamer Lutzow is…

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Storms in Europe. Iron-laded Steamer Stranded. London, November 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 42

Stormy weather is being experienced in Europe. The Gorman steamer Wilna, laden with iron, became stranded on the island of Vlieland, at the entrance of the Zuyder…

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Millionaire Banker Wrecked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 November 1909 · page 2

Advices from Madeira state that the Va[?] a palatial steam yacht belonging to Mr. Eugene HIggius, an American millionaire banker, has been wrecked on the…

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Wireless Messages. Steamer's Distance Record. London, November 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 42

The P. and O. Company's steamer Mantua, during her stay at Malta, on the return trip from Bombay, succeeded in establishing communication by wireless…

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New Steamer Wrecked on Her Maiden Voyage. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 November 1909 · page 2

The Marine Underwriters' Salvage Association has received a cable message stating that the North Court Company's new steamer Ourimbah, which was making her…

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Lumpers Refuse to Coal a Steamer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 November 1909 · page 2

The coal lumpers to-day refused to coal the steamer Yawata Maru, alleging that some of the coal had been handled by ton-unionists. Negotiations are proceeding…

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Explosion of Powder Hundreds of Houses Wrecked. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 November 1909 · page 2

A disastrous accident is reported from Scotland. The powder house of the Ar[?]iston Collieries, Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, suddenly…

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Wreck of the Ourimbah Fast on the Reef. a Total Loss Feared. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 December 1909 · page 2

Lloyd's new report that the new steamer Odrimbah, built for the North Coast Steam Navigation Co. of New South Wales, which, while on bon voyage to Australia, went…

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Wreck of the Hippolas

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 32

At an inquiry at Wellington (N.Z.) into the foundering of the Hippolas Captain Norris, master, said that the ship was registered in Sydney, and…

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Sinking of a British Steamer Incident of Russo-japanese War. Costs Russia £27,000. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 December 1909 · page 2

The Prize Court at Libau has awarded the owners of the BRitish steamer St. Kilda £26,958 for her detention" during the Russo-Japanese war…

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Engulfed by a Wave Fate of a Steamer. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 December 1909 · page 2

The end of the small steamer Ellen Vannin seems to have come with appalling suddenness. Terrific gales, which had swept in from…

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Russian Prizes. British Steamer St. Kilda. London. December 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 42

The Russian Prize Court, sitting at Libau, has dealt with the claim on behalf of the British steamer St. Kilda, which was stopped and searched by a Russian cruiser…

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Cablegrams. Big Floods on the Continent Many Vessels Wrecked. Enormous Damage Done. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 December 1909 · page 2

The severe storms and torrential rains experienced damage a Switzesland, where the mountain streams have swollen to…

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Many Deaths and Wrecks

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 December 1909 · page 2

Eighteen deaths have been reported as due to the blizzard in the vicinity of New York. Many vessels have been driven ashore…

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The Fate of a Steamer Capua Missing in the North Sea. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 December 1909 · page 2

The steamer Capua, with her crew of 23 soule, which was making the run from Hamburg to Denoa, in missing. It in thought that the vessel must have gone…

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Houlder Liner Wrecked

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 21

The Houlder liner Southern Crosss, which went ashore in a storm in Vigo Bay on a voyage from London to the Argentine, has broken in halves. The vessel and cargo…

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