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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1913

189 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 10

General Cable News. Unlucky Steamer Stranded Again. Port Said

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

The Tyser liner Indrabarah, which was stranded for two months on the New Zealand coast this year, went aground in the Suez Canal on Friday. The vessel…

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Submarine Disturbance. Throws Up Ancient Wreck. and Remains of Prehistoric Animal. San Francisco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 2

A submarine disturbance on Sunday violently agitated the sea around the Californian coast. The wreck of an old vessel, which is…

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Fortunes Made Out of Wrecks

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 December 1913 · page 3

Experts laughed when a well-known firm of Melbourne grain, merchants paid £368 for the wreck of the Jean Bart, a French barque which, while on…

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A Disastrous Wreck 174 People Drowned. Steamer Strikes Sunken Rock London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 December 1913 · page 2

News has been received that the Oama Steam Navigation Company's steamer Takyni struck a sunken rock off Reef Island at 11 at night, and subsequently…

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Disasters at Sea. Capsized Steamer. Berlin, December 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 25 December 1913 · page 43

The German steamer Narvik (3275 tons), of Lubeck has been found floating keel upwards at the mouth of the Ems River. She had a cargo of coal dust, and it is…

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Lost in Arctic Seas. Stefansson's Ship Wrecked. Vancouver, December 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 25 December 1913 · page 42

Captain Lane, of the schooner Polar Bear, which has just arrived from northern ports, declares that the Karlk, the leadingship of the Stefansson Arctic expedition,…

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Wrecked on German Coast. Berlin, December 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 25 December 1913 · page 43

It is reported from Cuxhaven that the barque Amazone, which left Sundsvall (Norway) on October 30 for Melbourne with a cargo of timber, has been wrecked…

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Aviator Wrecks Roof

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 26 December 1913 · page 7

While flying over Mosbach, close to the French frontier, at night, the German aviator Reichelt fell on to a farmhouse roof, but be and his…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Fire in Steamer's Hold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 3

Early this morning a fire was discovered a No. 4 hold of the steamer Knowsley Hall, which is lying [?] Wooloomooloo. The officer called out the crew, and fire appliances…

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