Russian Steamer Sunk
LONDON, Tuesday.—Another Russian steamer is reported to have been sunk while engaged in clearing mines laid at Port Arthur…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
369 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 19
The Wreck of the Adolphe. Lifeboat Crew Recognised
As has been already notified, the French barque Adolphe, which was wrecked on Friday, will be submitted to auction by Messrs. Creer and Berkeley…
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The Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Perth has completed her 60th voyage in the West Australian trade. She was built to the order of the company by Messrs. S. P…
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The steamer Walpara, which was to have come here to load meat for South Africa and London, has been diverted, and her Newcastle cargo will be sent to Sydney by rail. The…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The steamer Clementine, 2608 tons, while bound to Antwerp with a cargo of grain, foundered of Ushant. The crew, consisting…
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The services rendered by the members of the Newcastle lifeboat crew in rescuing the crew of the French barque Adolphe on Friday last are to be recognised…
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Yesterday afternoon, M. Biard D'Aunet. Consul-General for France, in recognition of the bravery of the Newcastle lifeboat crew in saving the officers and men of the…
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LONDON, Friday.—A Japanese cruiser fired at and stopped the British steamer Chensan off the Miaotao Islands, midway between…
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Mr. James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, is by this time in Sydney. His present visit to Australia is partly in connection with the…
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Messrs. J. and A. Brown, who purchased the stores of the wrecked barque Adolphe, on behalf of the owners, commenced salvage work on the vessel yesterday. The…
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On Saturday afternoon the lifeboat crew, headed by Coxswain M'Kinnon, visited the Sailors' Home, and presented the crew of the Adolphe with photographs of the…
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News has been received from San Francisco that the ship Ditton, bound from Newcastle for San Francisco with coal went ashore seven miles south of the Golden Gate during a dense…
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Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Company's new steamer Wimmera, built by Messrs. Caird and Co., of Greenock for the Commonwealth and New Zealand trade, sailed from the Clyde…
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By the steamer Manuka, from Vancouver, news has been received that the British gunboat Columbine, one of the vessels of the squadron patrolling the Newfoundland…
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The barque Yosemite, well-known in the Australian trade, has been wrecked off the West Coast of South America. Particulars of the disaster were contained in a letter received in…
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The largest schooner ever built on the Pacific Coast was leading at Portland last month for Australia. She is named the Crescent, was built at Eureka, California, this year, and has…
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The steamer Georgian Prince, running under the auspices of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Ltd., arrived at Sydney on Monday night, from Pulo Sambo with a cargo…
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It has transpired that Mr. William Ferrier, who was reported missing from the wrecked barque Adolphe on Monday, did not, as a matter of fact, leave the…
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The steamer Katanga, which loaded coal at Newcastle for Java, and afterwards took aboard a cargo of sugar for the United States, put into Trincomalie on September 15 in…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The British steamer Carisbrook has been stopped by a Russian cruiser in the Bay of Bis[?]ay, but was subsequently allowed to…
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