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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909

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Vessels Ashore

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 4

The Dutch mail steamer Van Spilbergen, from Batavia, and bound for Sydney, and the new steamer Mallina on her maiden voyage from Belfast for…

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Leaking Steamer

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 July 1909 · page 5

The Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Melbourne arrived in a leaking condition. The leak was discovered after the vessel left Eden. The…

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Overdue Steamer. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 13 July 1909 · page 2

The German Government, yacht Seestern, which left Brisbane for New Britain on Jane 3rd, is overdue, and tears for the safety of the vessel are entertained…

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A Sensational Wreck Terrible Story of Survivors. 17 Lives Lost

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 7

THE Norwegian barque Errol, bound from Chambote, on the west coast of South America, to Newcastle, N. S. W., has been wrecked on the Middleton Reef,…

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Wreck

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 2

A passenger on the steamer Suva clares that on June 27 while on a voy from Sydney to Fiji he saw the out of a ship on Middleton reef. He…

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This Errol Disaster. Remarkable Statement. Passenger Sees Wreck

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 4

A passenger by the steamer Suva declares that on June 27, while on the voyage from Sydney to Fiji, he saw the outline of a ship on the Middleton…

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Vessel Wrecked. Seventeen Lives Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 7

The Norwegian barque Errol, bound from the West Coast of South America to Newcastle, has been wrecked on the Middleton Reef…

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Steamer Comb to Grief. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 5

While the steamer Myee was crossing the Bellinger Heads on Saturday she stack the wreck of the Elliston breaking her shaft and both propellers…

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Liner Wrecked

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 4

The Shaw-Savill liner Maori, from London to Lyttelton, was wrecked near Capetown. Two persons were drowned…

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LONDON, Sunday. the Maori Wreck

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1909 · page 5

Ten additional lives have been saved from the wrecked steamer Maori. There were 32 lives lost in all…

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Washed Ashore

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 August 1909 · page 4

The body of Captain Boyer, late of the Frond] mail steamer Dumber, has been washed ashore near Madeline Island. Owing to wounds on the body,…

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The Orleans Wreck

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 August 1909 · page 4

Pieces of wreckage found on the ocean beach near Zeehan (Tas.) are believed to be portions of the missing boat from the Orleans wreck…

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Fire on a Steamer

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 4

A fire broke out on the Cunard liner Luciana, lying in dock at Liverpool, and raged for 15 hours. It was not extinguished until the vessel was partly…

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Waratah. Wreck Now Almost a Certainty. Bodies Drifting on the Sea

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 2

The captain of the Steamer Insizwa, who followed the probable course of the Waratah from Durban to Capetown, reports having passed, near the…

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Vessel Ashore. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 5

The steamer Austral is ashore at Bellinger bar…

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Steamer Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 4

It is now believed that the Proilch steamer Mehalandra is lost…

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Wreck of the Waipara. Strikes a Rock. All Hands Saved. Sydney

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

THE steamer Waipara, which left Brisbane for London last night, struck a rock at Cape Moreton near midnight. The captain beached the vessel,…

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Another Wreck

The Inverell Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 11

The French barque Gaol from London to Hobart foundered last Monday 200 miles east of Cape Lecuwin. The first and third officers with eleven of…

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The Sighted Boat. Picked Up. French Barque Wrecked

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 3

THE details with regard to the ship's boat sighted off the West Australian const show that a tug picked up a boat 16 miles from Cape Naturaliste. The boat was…

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Another Ship Wrecked. Wireless Telegraph Operators Heroism. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 5

The American steamer ship was wrecked yesterday at Steep Point, Alasks. An intensely dramatic incident of the disaster was the…

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