Wreck of a Liner. Many Lives Lost. London
The Spanish liner Larache foundered in a fog after striking the rocks at the entrance to the harbour of Muros, on the coast of Spain…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908
263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14
Wreck of the Larache. Rescues Effected. London
The latest intelligence concerning the wreck of the Spanish liner Larache off the Spanish coast is that 65 of those aboard were saved, many…
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The Marine Court (consisting of his Honor Judge Backhouse, President, and Captains Christie and Hay assessors) commenced an inquiry to-day concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Larache. Thirty-eight Missing. London
Latest accounts from the scene of the wreck of the steamer Larache, which went ashore on the Spanish boast during a fog, show that 38…
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The Nautical Court of Inquiry held at Auckland has given in finding, as a result of the formal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the Murital,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Freight Steamer Designs
An Interesting outcome among British shipbuilders of the increase in the dimensions and weights of machinery, the component parts of which often attain bulky…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer's Narrow Escape. Grazing a Reef. Sydney
The steamer Hillmeads returned to Sydney to-day, when detailed information was available of the mishap which she met with on the South Coast on…
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Sir,—A Newcastle friend of mine sent me a copy of your paper, under date June 17th, referring to the powder explosion, which also refers to the wreck of…
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The ketch Muruna, a vessel bought some years ago for the island trade, has been wrecked at the Bismarck Archipelago. Particulars or the disaster a ere received by the…
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By the Vancouver mall liner Manuka news has been received of the loss of, the schooner Halatoa at Nasaquala Reef. Full particulars are not to band; but evidently the vessel…
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The steamer New Orleans, which loaded phosphates at Ocean Island for Hamburg, has been wrecked. The vessel bad a cargo of 5500 tons of phosphates. She was to call at Pulau…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Powan. Many Chinese Drowned. Sydney
The E. and A. mail steamer Aldenham, from Japan and China, this morning, brought news of the wreck of the steamer Powan at Lantao Island, near Hongkong,…
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On Friday the topsail schooner Houto was launched from the yards of Messrs. Mowatt and Davis, Balmain. The new vessel was constructed to the order of Mr. F. Jagger…
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The Currie liner Gracehuil took the ground off the King's Wharf, ,Newcastle, yesterday, and remained there for several hours. The steamer came away at daylight from one of…
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A case of fire crackers aboard the steamer Schwaben, while loading at Bremen for Australia, exploded, killing the cook…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed by Cannibals. Wreck of the Ville De Bruges. Perth
The R.M.S. Macedonia brings details of the disaster on the River Congo, when the steamer Ville de Bruges was wrecked, with a loss of between 70 and 80…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—While Mrs. Post, the wife of a millionaire, and other ladies were motoring past Monlauk Point, at the extremity of Long…
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Messrs. Raylton, Dixon, and Co, of Milddlesbrough, are building a steamer for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, of Sydney. She is being constructed on the latest…
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A telegram has been received from Port Pirie that the Norwegian steamer Minerva—which had Just completed loading a full cargo of ore—has been arrested on a claim for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Menace to Navigation. Wreck of the Rescue. Sydney
Arthur J. M'Kenzie, manager of the Perpetual Trustee Company, Limited, being the owner of the steam tug Rescue, which was sunk at the entrance to the…
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