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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1913

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Cablegrams. Wrecked by Earthquake. 200 People Killed, Thousands Rome, Ess London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 November 1913 · page 2

An official message was received in London this morning stating that Abancay the chief town of the Per[?] pr[?]vine of Ap[?]rimee, 65 miles from Cuzeo, had…

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New Big Japanese Mail Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 47

The largest and most modern mail steamer in the Australian- Japan trade is the N.Y.K. Tango Maru. The Tango Maru is a steamer of some 8000 tons…

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Oil Steamer Ablaze. Six Persons Burnt. Bombay, November 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 43

A oil steamer, carrying 2000 tons of petroleum, has been destroyed by fire at Tuticorin, on the Gulf of Manar. Two of the engineers, three servants, and the…

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Pinned Under Wreckage. French Woman's Agony. Paris, November 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 42

Forty bodies have been recovered from the wrecked mail train, which was run info near Melun on Tuesday night by the Marseilles express when travelling at the rate…

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Burning Steamer Gets to Port. £100,000 Cargo Saved. Halifax (Nova Scotia)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 2

Another fire has to be added to the remarkable recent series of configurations in mid-Atlantle…

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Steamer on Fire. Wireless Brings Help. 160 Passengers Rescued

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 November 1913 · page 2

CAPE RACE (New Foundland), Sat. The Spanish steamer Balmes is on fire, and the passengers have been transferred to the Pannonia, according to a wireless…

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Gallant Lifeboat Crew

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 2

Another cable account gives the following details: "The Bembridge lifeboat crew gallantly attempted to reach the Scots Dyke early in the morning, but was…

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Gold Laden Steamer Icebound. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 2

A steamer with £45,000 worth of gold from the Klondyke sis lecbound in the Yukon River, 200 miles from the coast. Arrangements have been made to convey…

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General Cable News. N.S.W. Government Steamer Sails for Sydney. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 November 1913 · page 2

The S.S. Canbewrarra, a new steamer, belonging to the New South Wales Government, sailed from Retterdam on Friday for Sydney, via the Sues Canal. The…

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Wrecked by Gelignite. Criminal Act Suspected. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 November 1913 · page 2

Crime is suspeted to have been the motive for an explosion which occurred this morning in a gelignite magazine attached to the St. Peters brick, May street,…

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Steamer on Fire. Arbuthnot Destroyed

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 November 1913 · page 2

At midnight on Monday, at the Wakool bridge, the steamer Arbu[?] caught fire, and was burnt to the water's edge, asterwards sinking…

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A River in Flames. Naphtha Steamer Burnt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 4

The spectacle of a river on five was witnessed at Balranald on Tuesday. An outbreak occurred on a steamer on the river Murrumbidgee, and a large quantity of a[?]phtha…

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The District. Maude. A River Steamer Burned

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 2

Mr A. Griffiths, local agent for Messrs A. Arbuthnot and Sons, steamer proprietors, received a wire from that firm this morning, stating that their…

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Wrecked in Arctic Circle Sydney Photographer Aboard. Nome (Alaska)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 1 December 1913 · page 2

The Mary Sachs, the supply vessel of the Stefannson expedition, has been wrecked in the ice inside the Arctic circle, M. Henri Beauchel the French…

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Marooned in the Pacific. Plight of Schooner's Crew. San Francisco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 2

A wireless message has been received from the R.M.S. Moama, stating that 11 of the crew of the schooner Alvarado are marooned on Easter Island. The…

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Storms at Sea. Steamer Passengers in Peril San Francisco, November 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 43

Terrific storms are reported by vessels crossing the Pacific from the East. The lives of several passengers on the s.s. Nile (5888 tons), from Hong Kong,…

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Wrecked in the Arctic. Stefansson Expedition. Vanconver, November 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 43

Disaster hs befallen at least on portion of the Canadian Arctice expedition under Stefansson, which sailed from here on June 18. Several days ago it was rumoured…

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Italian Express Wrecked. Error of Pointsman. Rome, December 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 43

The Naples express came into collision on Saturday with a goods train at Ceccano, the accident being due to the error of a pointsman. The pointsman and six…

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A Lost Airship. Wrecked Zeppelin Found. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 2

In September last the "L 1," the latest of the Zeppelia airships, was wrecked in a sudden gale in the North Sea, and 13 persons perished…

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Shipwrecked Crew. Marooned in the Pacific. San Francisco. December 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 42

A wireless message has been received from the Union S.S. Company's liner Moana, now on her way to Wellington and Sydney, stating that eleven members of…

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