Steamer's Record
The steamer Cape corso, which was recently at Newcastle, holds the world's record for long non-stop steaming. She not long ago made the long run of 12,985 miles, from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 13
Steamer Wrecked
The steamer Pocahontas, bound from Ocean Island to Sydney, passed Cape Byron at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and reported having soon a vessel ashore…
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The now steamer Arawa, built to the order of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company by Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Co., Wallsend, is a twin-screw vessel of about 7000 tons, and is…
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The steamer Pocahontas, which arrived at Sydney yesterday morning, confirmed the reported loss of the steamer Inger at Ocean Island. It appears that the Inger arrived at…
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A steel screw steamer of about 3650 tons deadweight capacity, about 2132 tons gross, 1327 tons net, dimensions 300ft 9in, 42ft 2in, by 18ft 5in, at present building by Messrs…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, agents for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, have received a cable message from that firm asking to be advised of the whereabouts or…
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The steamer Hawea collided with the Harbour Board's dredge at Greymouth (N.Z.) last week. The Hawea, which was timberladen, was leaving for Lyttelton, and had…
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News has been received that the Austrian ship Alba, which left Girgenti on the 4th September for Natal, and is under charter to load coal at Newcastle for a port on the West…
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A cable message from London states that the German barque Nordwind, from Gothenburg to Melbourne, was wrecked on Sunday at the Skerries, Shetland. Three of the crew…
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A steamer, believed to be the Heathpool, from Hull to Buenos Ayres, with coal, has foundered in a storm off the Humber, and all on board, numbering…
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The Port Augusta, which arrived at Sydney from Port Pirie on Thursday, en route to New Zealand, is one of the latest additions to the fleet of the Anglo-Australasian Steam…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The news is confirmed that the steamer which foundered off the Humber with all, and was the Heathpool…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The steamship Rangatira, which is insured for £35,000, is, it is feared, disabled or stranded in unfrequented waters…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Hamburg-American tourist liner Prinzessin Victoria Luise (4419 tons), which was stranded near Port Royal, Jamaica,…
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The Takao Maru—a Japanese merchant steamer, laden with 4000 tons of phosphates from Ocean Island—is missing, and it is feared that she has gone down in one of the recent…
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The number and not tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of October, 1906, and the number of lives lost,…
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The steamer Berlin, of the German-Australian line, homeward bound from Adelaide, has landed two persons affected by bubonic plague at Suez…
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Accounts have been received of the official trial trip of the new Blue Funnel liner on the Firth of Clyde. The Titan is a twin-screw steamer, built on the Clyde, for the…
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The lightkeeper at the South Passage in Moroton Bay telegraphed to-day that a three-masted steamer, resembling the missionary steamer John Williams, is…
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A great snowstorm has occurred in Britain, the drifts being from eight to six feet deep in several counties. A severe gale has taken place, and…
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