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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1914

294 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 15

The Emden's Career Ended Destroyed by Australian Cruiser Sydney Germany Prepares for Retreat From West Flanders Russia Invades Germany End of Cruiser Emden Battered by Australian Cruiser Sydney. Now Total Wreck on North Keeling Island

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 November 1914 · page 2

The Eastern Extension Cable Station reports that the Australian light cruiser Sydney engaged the German raiding cruiser Emden off the Coeos (or Keeling)…

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Incidents of the War. Steamer Set Afire by German Spies. Cargo of Horses Destroyed. VANCOUVER

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 November 1914 · page 2

The steamer Rembradt. after leaving Baltimore (United States) with a cargo of horses for the Allies, burst into flames. The crew of the steamer flooded the…

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German Steamer Sunk

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 19

A Pekin message states that a Japanese naval patrol has sunk off Hawaii a German steamer that previously escaped from Jaluit in the Marshall Islands…

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Swedish Steamer Mined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 22

The Swedish steamer Atle (1183 tons) has been struck by a mine and sunk in the North Sea. Six lives were lost…

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Dutch Steamer Sunk

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 22

The crow of a Dutch steamer named the Marina, who have arrived at Plymouth, report that the Marina was sunk in the Atlantic by the German cruiser Karlsruhe…

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Emden and Konigsberg. Last of Two Marauders. Effective Work of Cruiser Sydney. Wonderful Russian Advance. Attack on Germany Begins. Marching on Posen. Retreat Imminent in Flanders. Calais Effort Fails. Sinking of the Emden. Took Fire in Engagement. Driven Ashore and Burnt. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 6

The Press Bureau states that the Emden was driven ashore and burnti at Cocos Island. [Cocos Island is a cable station of…

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The End of the Emden. Meets the Cruiser Sydney. Encounter at Cocos Island. Emden a Complete Wreck

The Independent · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. The career of the German raiding cruiser Emden has at last been terminated, and all Australians will be delighted to learn that…

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Ypres in Ruins. Destroyed by German Big Guns. Magnificent Buildings Wrecked

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 6

The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondents with the Belgian army states that the Germans at Ypres early on Sunday morning found the range with…

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The War. Australias First Naval Fight. German Raider Emden. Meets Australian Cruiser Sydney. Emden a Complete Wreck

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 2

The career of the German raiding cruiser Emden has at last been terminated, and all Australians will be delighted to learn that one of the…

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Loss of Cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth. Duo to Wireless Prom Spies Ashore. Great Britain Complains of Breaches of Neutrality. WASHINGTON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 November 1914 · page 2

It is definitely stated that the British Government has made representations to the United States Government concerning South American breaches of neutrality…

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Marooned on Friendly Islands. Hardships of Shipwrecked Crew. San Franoisco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 November 1914 · page 2

The steamer Ventura brought five survivors from the wreck of the American schooner, St. Alexander. The survivors had been exposed to hunger and thirst during…

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Steamer for Sydney Ashore on Irish Coast. All on Board Saved. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 17 November 1914 · page 3

The steamer Invernic, bound for Sydney, has gone ashore, and is in a bad position at Ballyferis Point, on the east coast of County Down, in the Irish Sea. All on…

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Wrecked Zeppelin Adrift

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 November 1914 · page 2

A partially wrecked Zeppelin airship has been seen near Manstricht, drifting crratically and tilled almost on end…

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Sparrow Wrecks a Taxi-cab

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 November 1914 · page 4

A sparrow at Highham, near Gloucester, has been responsible for a serious taxi-cab accident. In a ditch 7th, deep were found a wrecked…

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Mines Washed Ashore

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 23

Eighty mines, a report from Amsterdam states, have been washed up on the coast of Zealand. At West Capelle, in Holland, four naval officers and three sailors were…

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U.S. Steamer Seized by British. Cargo of War Munitions for Germany

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 2

Advices from Athens state that a British cruiser seized the United States steamer Kroilland in the Nediterranean. The vessel had 2500 tons of war munitions from…

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On the Sea. The Mine Field near Ireland. An American Steamer Seized

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 2

The British naval losses to date include 222 officers and 3450 men killed. Mr Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the navy had been…

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Zeppelin Wrecked. Paris

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 6

A Rotterdam message states that at Maastricht a Zeppe in took fire and was wrecked…

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"Finger Prints." a Wrecked Countryside

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 3

As one moves day after day about this region which has been, and still is, so harried by war, it is a never-ending surprise to see how much of the peaceful life of the…

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Austrian Steamer Sunk in the Adriatic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 November 1914 · page 2

The Austrian steamer Josephine, proceeding from Assab Bay, in Eritrea, East Africa, on the Red Sea to Trieste (Austria) struck a mine in the Adriatic…

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