New Coastal Steamer
To meet the growing requirements of the Byron .lay trade,, the North Coast S.N. Company has had a fast steamer built at home for this service, which should, eclipse anything…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907
265 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 14
The Meurthe Wreck
Salvage operation are proceeding at the wreck of the old French warship Meurthe, which was cast ashore on Lord Howe Island on October 9. The steamer Induna, which…
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A remarkable story comes from Quilty, co. Clare, concerning the wreck of the Leon XIII. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood for some nights were thrown into a state of alarm by…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The North Coast Steam Navigation Co.'s new steamer Orara has keen taken on a trial run, when she attained a speed…
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LONDON Tuesday.—A number of farms in East Kent have been wrecked by a whirlwind…
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News comes from Singapore that a terrific explosion occurred in the harbour there recently, on board the steamer Pocahontas, which put in to Singapore some short time…
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In an interview at Port Darwin, Captain Strachan expressed himself as still sanguine of his ability to float the steamer Australian. He is now removing the anchors, winches,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Dundonald. Rescue of Survivors. Thirteen Men Drowned. London
A mystery of the sea was cleared up by the arrival of the New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa at the Bluff yesday…
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Details have been received of the sinking of, the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s Oriental liner Empress of China alongside the dock on October 23rd. It is thought that the vessel's…
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Information reached Dundee on October 22 of a disaster to the Windward, the most famous of the local whaling feet. At the most northerly point in Arctic regions reached by…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Canadian Pacific liner Mount Temple was wrecked on the west coast of Iron-bound Island during a blinding…
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The interstate cargo steamer Monaro created a sensation along the water side yesterday, after steaming out of the Basin, by nearly coming into collision with…
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The ketch Zelma was towed in at the Macleay Heads on Saturday leaking. The vessel arrived off the head on Friday flying signals of distress, and a tug was sent from the…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The coasting steamer Guasco yesterday collided with another vessel off the Paranahyba River, Brazil, and was sunk. Thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the Lifeboat Is Impossible
Life is saving from a stranded ship in three ways—by the people on board getting ashore by operations from the ships, by people on shore getting life-saving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wireless Telegraphy and Wrecks
Details received it London by the Amalgamated Radio Telegraph Company of the stranding at the Lituania (s) at Skillinge, near Stockholm, show the great value of…
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A fire broke out on Tuesday in No. 1 bold of the steamer Lord Stanley at Wellington, A number of cases of kerosene were burned, and the oil exposed, hat the steam injected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Auckland Island Wreck Fate of a Missing Ship. Thirteen Men Missing. Privations of the Survivors. Wellington, December 7
Whenever a ship comes back from the Sub-Antarctic Islands, away down to the south of New Zealand, there is always a chance of a stirring tale of shipwreck…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Month's Wrecks
The number and net tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of October, 1907, and the number of…
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The auxiliary schooner Malckula, which left Sydney for the Solomon Islands on Friday, returned to port on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon. when the vessel was…
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