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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904

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Steamer Titania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 4

The steamer Titania, a vessel of 3430 tons, of the Howard Steamship Company of London, put in an unexpected appearance off the port yesterday morning. She is from Japanese…

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Wreck of the Australia. Marine Board Finding. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 5

The Marine Hoard to-day delivered its finding in regard to the circumstances of the stranding of the R.M.S. Australia off Point Lonsdale…

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Shipping Disaster. Emigrant Vessel Wrecked. Great Loss of Life. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Danish emigrant steamer Norge, 3300 tons, bound from Copenhagen to New York, has been lost…

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Wreck of the Norge. Heart-rending Incidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The number of persons on board the Danish emigrant steamer Norge, which was wrecked off the Rockall Rock, on the east coast of…

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Wreck of the Norge. Seventeen More Survivors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Seventeen additional survivors of the wreck of the Danish emigrant steamer Norge have arrived at Aberdeen. They lived for…

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Schooner Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1904 · page 4

The steamer Cobar has been despatched from Sydney to the Manning River for the purpose of towing the schooner Australia to Sydney for repairs. The Australia, which belongs to too…

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Volunteer Fleet Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Russian Volunteer Fleet steamer Smolensk is in the Bosphorus…

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Wreck of the Australia. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1904 · page 5

The Marine Court this afternoon concluded its inquiry into the charge of misconduct preferred against Pilot Dennis in connection with the wreck of the R.M.S…

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Japanese Cruiser Wrecked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Japanese coastal defender Kaimon, a small vessel of 211 feet in length, during a dense fog, struck a mine in Ta-lien-wan Bay,…

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The Tarshaw Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 5

Among the casualties directly attributable to the gala is the stranding of the well-known coasting steamer Tarshaw, which went ashore on Saturday morning…

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A Southerly Gale. Wreck of a Schooner. Apprehension of Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 5

Not since the historic gale in which the steamer Maitland was lost on Cape Three Points has such a violent gale rages along the New South Wales Coast as that…

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A Previous Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 5

On the night of June 24, 1891, during, a heavy southerly gale, the schooner Ranger went ashore within a length of the same spot. All hands were saved on that…

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The Bell Flower Wrecked. Two Men Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 5

Shortly after eight o'clock on Saturday morning a schooner was observed off the port, evidently making for the entrance, and flying signals for a tug. Captain…

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Steamer Defender Sold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 4

The well-known coasting steamer Defender has been sold to New Zealand, and will leave Sydney in the course of a few days to take us the Hokitika trade. The Defender, which has…

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The Bell Flower Wreck. Tug Owners' Views

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 5

There was no alteration in the position of the stranded schooner Moll Flower yesterday. Captain Spinks, of the Sydney Underwriters' Association, visited the…

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Newcastle Pilot Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 4

It would be interesting to know upon what grounds the navigation authorities justify the removal of the pilot steamer Ajax from Newcastle. At the…

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THE S.S. Nemesis. Wreckage at Botany Bay. the Worst Fears Entertained. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 5

When the southerly gale which raged along on the coast on Saturday blew itself out, opinions were freely expressed in nautical circles that serious maritime…

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New Schooner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1904 · page 4

The new schooner Marora arrived at Sydney from New Zealand on Tuesday. The vessel is rigged as a three-masted schooner, and is on her maiden voyage. She is constructed…

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Disabled Schooner Sighted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1904 · page 4

Captain Smith, of the brigantine Defiance, which has arrived at Sydney from Kalpara reports that on the 7th instant he sighted a schooner with her fore topmast gone, which he…

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British Steamer Stopped

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Russian cruiser St. Petersburg, of the Volunteer Fleet, stopped the British steamer Menelaus, south of Jeddah, in the Red…

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