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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1910

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Fr[?]ght Steamer [?] AT [?] LONDON

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

A wireless [?] from the steamer [?] that the [?] point has been [?]…

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Militant Milliners. Wreck Shop and Fight Police. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 4

Three hundred milliners in Parts went on strike and wrecked a shop in the Rue Rea[?]…

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Wreck Near Cooktown

The Inverell Argus · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 2

The steamer Tymerie, from Calcutta to Newcastle, got ashore on V reef near Cooktown. Efforts to float her failed, but she is safe…

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A Ship Wrecked. Boat Containing 16 Men Missing. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

The ship Carnarvon Bay has been wrecked on an unknown reef at the south-east, end of King's Island, Bass Straits. A boat containing the…

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Survivors' Story. Wreck Disaster

Guyra Argus · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 5

Mothers and wives wept bitterly on the Liverpool landing stage when, on Wednesday (says "Lloyd's News" of July 17) the Pacific liner Oropesa came…

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Ran Ashore. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 5

The steamer [?] bound from assman's [?] to Hobart, ran shore at Fredrick Heary Bay on Friday night. Passengers…

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An Overdue Steamer. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 5

The steamer strathnairn from Dunedin to now seven days overdue at Hobart…

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New Passenger Steamer for Australian Trade

Guyra Argus · Thursday 10 November 1910 · page 4

THE NEW BLUE FUNNEL LINER AENEAS. The famous Line Funnel line (Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co), which has been established over half a century, and comprises 66 steamers, is about to be extended by the inauguration of an Australian passenger service through the medium of three specially designed screw steamers. The first of these, the Aeneas, was launched on August 23rd. The liners will sail from Glasgow, calling at Fishguard so the outward voyage, and will such be over 10,000 tons register…

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A Tear's Wrecks. Increase Over 1908

Guyra Argus · Thursday 10 November 1910 · page 6

The statistical summary of ships totally lost, broken up condemned, &c., published by Lloyd's Register, shows that during 1909 such vessels numbered…

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New Passenger Steamer for Australian Trade the New Blue Funnel Liner [?]As

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 3

The famous Blue Funnel h[?] (Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co), which has been established over half a century, and comprises [?] steamers, is about to be extended by the inauguration of an Australian passenger service through the medium of three specially-designed screw steamers. The first of these, the Aeneas, was launched on August 23rd. The liners will sail from Glasgow, calling at Fishgua[?] the outward voyage, and will each be over 10,000 tons register…

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The Monte Carlo Shipwreck

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 5

An officer in the Russian Navy, whose name will have to be concealed under the fictitious one of Pulkowski, commanded a second-class…

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New Passenger Steamer for Australian Trade

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 5

THE NEW BLUE FUNNEL LINER AENEAS. The famous side Funnel line (Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co.), which has been established over half a century, and comprises 66 steamers, is about to be extended by the inauguration of an Australian passenger service through the medium of three specially designed screw steamers. The first of these, the Aeneas, was launched on August 23rd. The liners will sail from Glasgow, calling at Fishguard or the outward voyage, and will…

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A Steamer Stranded. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 5

Eight-three passengers are stranded on the steamer Portland-Marooned on an island. The steamer lsiled to enter the harbor owing to storms…

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