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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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Chineses Pirates Loot British Steamer. Cut Off Passengers Legs. Hong Kong

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 November 1911 · page 2

Particulars have been received regarding the looting of the British steamer Shiuon by Chinese pirates on the West River (Si-Kiang) in the South of China…

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Terrific Gas Explosion. Large Hotel Wrecked. Ten People Seriously Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 2

A great sensation was caused in Nottingham yesterday through an explosion of cas. The fusing of an electric main melted a…

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A Steamer Stranded. Durbar Dresses and Uniforms on Board. Bombay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 5

An accident, which is likely to cause much inconvenience, has occurred on the coast of India. The steamer Beachy, which was…

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Destroyed Foundered. Tokio, November 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 7

The torpedo-boat destroyer Hurusame foundered in a gale off Cape Shima. Forty five of on board were drownod…

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Cable News. Liverpool Disaster. Oil-cake Mill Wrecked. Explosion Dismembers Bodies. Hospitals Filled with Injured. .London, November 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 6

An explosion, with appalling consequences, occurred at J. Bibby and Sons' oil-cake mills in Liverpool on Friday. There were 400 employes engaged at the time…

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Steamer on Rocks Sends Wireless for Aid. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 5

The steamer [?] with many passengers aboard struck the rocks off the coast. A wireless message summoned aid, and then there was silence, no further intimation…

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Wrecked Steamer Beachy. Bombay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 2

It is expected that the cargo of the steamer Beachy, which went ashore last week on the Minikoi Atoll, off the south west coast of India, will be saved…

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Perils of the Sea. Wreck of Passenger Ship. Fate of Passengers Unknown. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 2

The fate of the passengers on board the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer Tees (679 tons) is still unknown. The vessel struck a rock on the west coast of…

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Wreckage Off Kiama

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 3

Captain L. H. Roy, master of the steamer Kapunda, has reported to the Navigation Department that when seven miles off Kiama yesterday, the steamer was for…

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Abaptism of Blood. Tragedy of Steamer's Maiden Voyage. Six Lives Sacrificed. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 2

The main steam pipe valve of the steamer City of Lineoin, bound from Sydney to London on her maiden voyage, exploded, killing instantly the engineer and…

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The Mysterious Wreckage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 5

The feeling in [?]ing [?] the q[?]y of [?] passed by the [?] of Ka[?] (reported in to-day's [?] messing M[?] is that…

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Collision in Hobson's Bay Excursion Steamer Runs Into Cutter. One Boy Drowned. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 2

There was a sensation in Hobson's Bar, just off the Port Melbourne railway pier, this morning. Eight boys and an officer from the training ship John Murray were…

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Belgian Steamer Wrecked Fourteen Lives Lost. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 2

The Belgian steamer Vandyk has been wrecked off Land's End. Fourteen people were drowned…

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British Steamer Detained. Shanghai

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 2

It is reported that the revolutionaries have searched and detained the British steamer Kwangping…

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German Battleship Ashore Accident in a Fog. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 2

During a heavy fog the battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II., 11,180 tons, went aground in the Flensburg Fiord, in the Province of S[?]wig-Holstein…

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Wreck of the Elingamite Inquiry to Be Re-opened. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 2

Recent legislation has authorised the reopening of the inquiry regarding the wreck of the Elingamite, which ran ashore on the Three Kings Islands in November…

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Wreck of the Elingamite Captain Attwood Acquitted. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 2

The inquiry regarding the loss of the lingamite, wrecked on the Three Kings Island in November, 1902, which was reopened in consequence of a new survey…

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Cablegrams Shipwrecked Sailors. Thirty-nine Disappear. Aden

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 2

The steamer Kuala was recently wrecked on the coast of Socotra, an island off the north-cast coast of Africa. The crew, comprising five Europeans and…

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Big Liner Ashore. Duke and Duchess of Fife Aboard

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 2

News Las been received that the Peninsular and Oriental Company steamer Delhi, bound for Bombay, is ashore near Cape Sportel. The Duke and Duchess of…

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Wreck of the Kuala. Crew Arrive at Singapore. Bombay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 2

A message received on Monday stated that the steamer Kuala had been wrecked on the coast of Socotra island, in the Indian Ocean, and that it was feared that 5…

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