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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1910

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Wreck of Steamer Satara Disappears Bow First. the Crew Saved. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 April 1910 · page 2

The Navigation Department has received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at Seal Rocks stating that the British India Company's steamer Satara struck the…

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Schooner Wrecked. Native Crew on Island

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 21

News was received in Sydney on. Monday that the auxiliary schooner Maleluka, belonging to Lever's Plantations, Limited, which is more than two months overdue…

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Satara Wrecked. Disaster in Breakers. Steamer Sinks Bows First

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 28

The British-India steamer Satara was wrecked on Wednesday afternoon in the Edith breakers, near the Seal Rocks, north of Newcastle, and it is feared that the…

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Steamer on the Rocks. Atlantic Liner's Fate. Passengers Landed. London, April 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 45

The Atlantic Transport Company's twin-screw steamer Minnehaba, 13,400 tons gross register, bound from New York to London, ran on the outlying rocks of the Stilly…

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Wreck of the Pericles

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 33

The inquiry into the wreck of the Pericles was concluded at Fremantle, when Captain Simpson and nil the officers were exonerated of all blame. Evidence was given by Lyons…

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Wreck of the Satar All the Crew Saved. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 2

Further information has been received concerning the wreck on Wednesday afternoon in the Edith breakers, near the Seal Rocks, north of Newcastle, of the…

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The Wreck of Tee Satara

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 April 1910 · page 5

Captain Binstead the Torres Strait pilot who was in charge of the Satara when she went down, Captain Hugill, and his officers, attended at the Navigation…

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Steamer for Papua's Trade

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 April 1910 · page 2

The British New Guinea Development Company has purchased the steamer Bentinck, now loading at London a cargo of implements and sawmill machinery for…

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The Zeppelin No. 2. Completely Wrecked at Limburg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 April 1910 · page 2

Reuter's Agency has been advised that Count Zeppelin, the famous German airship, inventor, has experienced another severe stroke of ill-fortune. His vessel, the…

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Progress by Disaster. Airship Wrecked at Aldershot. Gale's Disastrous Work

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 April 1910 · page 2

A disaster occurred to the new British Army experimental airship at Aldershot on Sunday. A heavy gale found the vessel unprepared and it was wrecked. The…

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The Wreck Yarn Impossible. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 April 1910 · page 3

There is no longer any sensation attaching to the story that a vessel had. been lost off Bratus Point; tut the explanation that discredits the story is in itself of…

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An Optical Illusion No Wreck, at All. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 April 1910 · page 3

A telegram received from Yorkstown, which is fourteen miles from Warooke, on Yorke's Penisula, states that two men are clinging to the mast of a wreck off…

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Excitement on a Steamer Two Men Caught Thieving. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 2

Considerable excitement was caused early this morning on board the steamer Hunter on her trip from Newcastle to Sydney. A passenger lying in his bunk was awakened…

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Wreck of the Malekula

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 33

Captain Macphail, the mate (Mr. Dobson), and the engineer (Mr. Shapland). of the wrecked schooner Malekula, arrived at Townsville on Friday. Captain Macphail…

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Wreck Off Yorke Peninsula. Men Clinging to Masts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 28

News reached reached Adelaide on Tuesday afternoon of the loss of a vessel off the west coast of Yorks Peninsula, about 14 miles west of Point Turton…

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Wreck of the Satara the Captain to Blame. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 3

The Marine Court concluded its inquiry concerning the loss of the steamer Satara. The finding of the court was that the vessel was lost through the wrongful action…

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Another Shipwreck

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 6

"Another big steamer wrecked" was the ghastly caption in the evening papers on Wednesday. This time it was the Satara, a British-India boat, which paid…

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Steamer's Rudder Damaged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 5

Any anxiety felt with regard to the safety of the s.s. Carpentaria because she was overdue on the voyage from Durban to Capetown, has been dispelled by news…

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New Australian Steamer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 May 1910 · page 2

The Orient Steam Navigation Company has placed orders with Messrs. Brown and Co., of Clydebank, for the construction of another mail steamer for the Australian…

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Wreck of the Ranfurly. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 May 1910 · page 2

The Marine Court inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Countess of Ranfurly at New Caledonia on March 31. was concluded to-day. The finding arrived at was that…

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