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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

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

Steamer on Fire. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1908 · page 5

The steamer Paparon, 6683 tons, which left Port Chalmers, New Zealand, for London on November 11th, has put into St. Vincent on fire…

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An Island Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1908 · page 4

The Sydney Underwriters' Association has been notified of the wreck of the Norwegian steamer Solgli[?]t at the Crozet islands. The steamer was on a sealing expedition, and had…

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Stricken Italy. Titanic Tragedy. Thousands of Victims. Enormous Area Wrecked. Sufferings of the People. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 5

Roman newspapers estimate the deaths by the earthquake in Sicily and Calabria at 60,000, but the latest estimates supplied by Reuter…

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