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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14

Foundering of a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamer Grindonhall collided with wreckage in the Black Sea, and foundered with 27 persons on board…

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North Coast Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

The North Coast S.N. Company have received particulars by the English mail of the trial trip of the new express steamer Orara, specially designed for the Byron Bay…

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Wreck of a Barque

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 4

The salmon packer Servia was wrecked on November 6 at Julla Point, Karluk Harbour (says a San Francisco exchange), and 40,000 cases of salmon which were on board the…

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Missing Ketch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

No tidings having been received of the missing fishing ketch Evergreen causes the gravest anxiety as to the fate of that vessel and her crow (says the "Age" of…

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Two Steamers Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 4

The North Coast Company's steamer City of Grafton went aground inside the entrance at Richmond Heads on Saturday. The vessel which was not in any…

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Mishap to a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 4

When the interstate steamer Sydney was going up the river at Adelaide the other day, the anchor, owing to a defect in the windlass, slipped out. The steamer…

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Oil Steamer Blown Up. Two Sailors Drowned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 5

The Anglo-American Oil Company's steamer Housatonic, laden with petroleum, struck on the Maiden Rocks, off the north-east coast of Ireland…

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Wreck of a Transport. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 5

The French transport Nive has been wrecked on the coast of Morocco, A[?] on board, 240 in number, were saved by the rocket apparatus,…

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Fever on a Steamer. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 5

The steamer Borderer, from Vancouver signalled for a pilot early this morning and was brought into Watson's Bay. A message had previously been received…

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An Island Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

News received by the last mail states that the steamer Volunteer had been sold to colonial buyers This is probably the steamer that his been purchased by Messrs Burns,…

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Blowing Up a Wreck. Port Macquarie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 5

The Navigation Department have made and attempt to blow up the remains of [?] steamer Ballina, wrecked here 29 years ago Diver Reale affixed a charge…

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Wreck of the Parua. Suva

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 5

The island steamer Paruna, owned by Messrs. Robble Brothers, of Lovuka, has become a total wreek at Lan, in the Fiji group. No lives were lost…

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Wreckage Discovered

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 4

A message from Thursday Island states that some wreckage has been seen in the boat passage between the Horn and Prince of Wales' Island. A search by the water…

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The Parua Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 4

Further particulars have been received concerning the loss of the island steamer Parua in the Fill Group. The vessel, while engaged collecting copra, encountered a…

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Ship Hartfield. Believed to Have Foundered. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

Wreckage has been found at vallcouver which indicates that the British vessels Hartfield, from Liverpool has foundered…

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Barque Hinemoa Ashore. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

News was received in Melbourne to-day that the barque Hinemon, of 2283 tons, had gone ashore at Lorne this morning. The crew of the vessel were got safely…

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Thode Fagelund Ashore. on the Rocks at Cronulla. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 5

The steamer Thode Fagelund went ashore last night at the southern end of Cronulla beach, while in her way from Adelaide to Sydney to be docked…

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Wreck of the Amsterdam. Missing Men Rescued. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 5

It is reported that a Norwegian steamer has picked up the missing boat in which 21 passengers and seven of the crew of the steamer…

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Bomb Explosion. a Bank Wrecked. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 5

The Italian quarter of New York was the scene of a sensational outrage to-day, the frontage of a bank being completely wrecked by the explosion…

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Schooner Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 4

News has been received at Sydney from the auxiliary ketch Leu[?]wa, from the Sea Islands, of a severe hurricane which passed over the Solomon Group on New…

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