September Wrecks
The number and not tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of September, 1909, and the number…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909
282 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 15
First Monitor Steamer
The steamship Monitoria, the first of the patent Monitor design of steamers, built at Sunderland for the Ericason Shipping Company, of Newcastle-on-Ty[?]e, has now…
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The German steamer Wilna, laden with iron, stranded at Vlieland, in Holland. Of the crew of fourteen thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tiger at Large. on Board a Steamer. Several Persons Clawed. London
Intense alarm was created on board the steamer Alial, while on a voyage from Colombia to New York, by the escape of a tiger from its cage during…
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The Messageries Maritimes steamer La Seyne has foundered in Rio Straits. She came into collision with the British India liner Onda, and sunk in…
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The North German Lloyd steamer Lutzow is ashore at Naples…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Yacht. on Madeira Coast. All on Board Saved. London
The Varuna, a palatial steam yacht belonging to Mr. Eugene Higgins, an American millionaire banker, has been wrecked off Madeira…
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Early on Saturday morning the Adelaide S.S. Company’s steamer Dilkera went aground in the harbour, and remained fast for nearly five hours. The Dilkera, bound…
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News has been received from Wellington (N.Z.). that on Saturday afternoon, the steamer Takapuna, when off Jackson's Head, between Nelson and Picton, sighted the barque…
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Mr. A. Guthrey, one of the owners of the barque Hippolas, has received a cable from Captain Norris, at Now Zealand, confirming the news of the disaster. The message…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →King Island Wrecks
In his quest for information suitable for use in the periodical charts being issued for the guidance of seafarers by the Hydrographic office. Washington (U.S.A.), Mr. Chester…
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The ketch Wave, when coming down the river the other day, at Port Macquarie, went aground, and remained fast for about 24 hours. She was being, towed off by the…
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At an inquiry into the foundering of the barque Hippolas, Captain Norris, master, said that the ship was registered in Sydney, and owned by the Union Box Company and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ourimbah. a Total Wreck. Fixed on a Reef. London
Lloyds reports that the steamer Ourlmbah, which went on a reef off Cape Reciffe, between Capetown and Durban, South Africa, is fixed between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barque Adderley. Ashore Off Ecuador. Expected to Be Floated Off. London
The barque Adderley of 1147 tons, which sailed from Newcastle with a cargo of coal for Guaya[?]il on October 7th has gone ashore off the Island of…
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The cost of blowing up the wreck of the Charles Edward, at the entrance of the Wanganui, River, was stated at the Wanganui Harbour Board to have been £240, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mail Steamer Delayed
The French mail steamer Australian, of the fleet of the Messageries, Maritimes, which arrived at Sydney on Wednesday, from Marsellies, and was to have been despatched…
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Captain Gelding, of the Grimsby trawler Leo, upon reaching his home port on October 14, reported a wreck on the Doggerbank in a dangerous position to navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lords Denounced. Mad Mullahs and Wreckers. Attack by Mr. Lloyd-george. London
Mr. D. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a rousing speech at the National Liberal Club to-day, at which he scathingly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steamer's Mishap
The Collector of Customs (Mr. C. S. Nixon) held an inquiry at Wellington into the circumstances connected with the touching of the Union Company's steamer Takapuna on…
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