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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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Steamer Strikes Rock. Fourteen Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 July 1911 · page 2

HALIFAX (Nova Scotia) Sunday. The steamer John Irwin struck a roch off the coast of Neva Scotia. Of her crew of fourteen only one man escaped…

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A Hopeless Wreck. Ancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 July 1911 · page 2

Advices [?] here from Yokohama state that the liner Empress of China. whicb is ashore on the Japaness coast, will become a hopeless wreck…

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Steamer Bnr[?]ks Her Shaft

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 August 1911 · page 2

The steamer Sonnenberg broke her shaft in the Gulf of Guinea. The shaft was temporarily repaired, and the steamer is now making for Dakar…

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New South Wales Crippled Schooner Adrift for Five Months. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 August 1911 · page 2

The American four-masted schooner Espada, which left Puget Sound, off Washington, U.S., on February 4 for Port Alelaide, ws towed into Sydney Harbor this…

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Vessel Ashore. Boston, July 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 43

It is reported that a steamer, named the Niobe, and believed to be the Canadian war-ship of that name, is ashore on the Nova Scotian coast. The engine-room of…

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Marine Disasters. Schooner Cut in Two. London, July 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 43

A disastrous shipping collision occurred last night during a fog off Belfast. The passenger steamer Antrim, of the Midland Railways Company, struck a schooner…

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Steamer and Dredge in Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 3

A message was received by the Navigation Department from the pilot at Manning River stating that the North Coast Company's steamer Rocklity, which…

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Lightning Wrecks Factory. Fifty Workmen Buried. Paris, July 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 43

A factory in course of construction at Grand Quevilly, Rouen, was struck by lightning, and collapsed, 50 masons and carpenters, who wore engaged in the work…

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Collapse of a Tower Thirty Houses Wrecked. Seven Dead: Others Missing Madrid

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 2

A sensational accident has occurred at Bunol, a town in the Portuguese province of the same name. A large Moorish tower collapsed…

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Steamer Aground. Foster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 2

The Tuncurry, which went aground yesterday, is still fast, but she will probably float at high tide this evening…

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One Hundred Drowned Asleep a Nile Steamer Sinks. Cairo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 3

A few additional particulars have been received here regarding the foundering of a steamer, crowded with native passengers, 106 of whom were drowned, which occurred…

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Praying for Ships to Run Ashore

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 3

At to-day sitting of the Royal Commission inquiring into the alleged shortage of labor Mr. G. Lindon secretary of the Boiler Makers' Union in answer to…

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Cablegrams. Wreck of the Fifeshire the Steamer Abandoned. Two Boats with Thirty People Missing. Aden

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 5

The fedeara[?] Houlder-Shire [?]ner [?]neshire, [?] bound from Australian ports to London, which left Melbourne on July 10, has met with disaster, having gone ashore…

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Fifeshire a Total Wreck. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 5

The Sydney Underwriters' Association received a cable this morning stating that the Fileshire is a total wreck…

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Wreck of the Fifeshire Boats Still Missing. Full List of Occupants. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 August 1911 · page 2

Further particulars have been received here regarding the wreck of the Federal Houlder-Share liner Fifeshire. The vessel is lying on a bed of hard sand…

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S.s. Fifeshire Wrecked. Ashore on African Coast. 30 Souls Missing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 43

The steamer Fifeshire, 5,812 tons, of the Federal-Houlder-Shire Line Limited, which was on a voyage from Australian ports to London, is ashore on the African coast…

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Steamer Irishman Disabled. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 2

The Sydney Marine Underwriters' Salvage Association received a cable this morning stating that the White Star line. Irishman had put Hare Capetown with her…

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Wireless Waves Wrecking Our Lives. Tooth and Hair Troubles Thus Arise

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 3

The horrors endured by X-ray maytyrs appear to be 12 store for us all, according to some investigations that have just been made. A mysterious…

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Wreck of the Fifeshire One Ok Missing Boats Found. Occupants Safe. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 2

The steamer Ardandeearg, from Cale[?]ta has rescued one of the missing boats from the steamer Fifeshire, which was wrecked off Cape Guardafui, on the African coast…

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New South Wales Steamer Aground. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 2

A message was posted at the Royal Exchange this morning from the signalmaster at South-West Rocks, stating that the steamer Mecleay was aground on the bar, but…

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