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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1910

279 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14

Wreck of French Liner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 6

Details are to hand of the awful wreck of the French steamer General Chanzy, with the loss of 158 lives, which occurred on the 10th ult…

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The Steamer Loodiana. Contradictory Report. Vessel Not Sighted, London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 5

Advices yesterday from the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, 934 miles north of Madagascar, stated that a steamer which has…

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Old Wreck Recalled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 4

One of the strangest experiences ever recorded in marine history is that of the crew of the British ship Mermaid, which was wreeked in Torres Straits in…

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The Steamer Loodiana. Not at Cosmoledo. Visit of a French Warship. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 5

A French warship has visited the island of Cosmoledo, but has found no trace of the missing steamer Loodiana, of the British-India Steam Navigation…

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Wreck of the Pericles. Founders Off the Leeuwin. All on Board Saved. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 6

The lightkeeper at Cape Leeuwin reported this afternoon that a large steamer with four masts and a yellow funnel was in distress six miles to the…

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Schooner Missing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 4

It is feared that the auxiliary schooner Malekula has been lost on the voyage from the Solomon Group to Sydney. The vessel is seriously overdue, having left…

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Wreck of the Pericles. Passengers Returning. Arrive at Fremantle To-day. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 5

The s.s. Monaro left Flinders Bay at four o'clock this afternoon with the passengers from the wrecked steamer Pericles. She is due at Fremantle at about…

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Wreck of the Relic. Hobart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 4

The schooner Relic has been wrecked at Eddystone Point The vessel struck the inside of Eddystone Rock, and the crew left in the…

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Wreck of the Pericles. Passengers at Fremantle. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 5

The statement is made at Bunbury that the rock on which them Pericles struck is not charted, and lies right in the course of shipping. It is it is asserted,…

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Schooner Sunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 4

The schooner Relic, bound from Hobart to Adelaide, struck a rock inside of Eddystone on Sunday morning. She remained afloat for nearly an hour, and…

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Wreck of the Pericles. Uncharted Rock Theory. Endorsed by Authority. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 5

The underwriters are taking immediate steps to ascertain the exact position of the Pe[?]icles. Captain Morrison, deputy habour master at Fremantle, said that…

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Schooner Wrecked. on New Caledonian Coast. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 5

A report was received from Noumea this afternoon that the three-masted auxiliary schooner Countess of Ranfurly had been wrecked on the south coast of…

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February Wrecks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 4

The number of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Boar dof Trade during the month of February, 1910, and the number of lives…

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Steamer on Fire. Passengers' Mad Rush. Pluck of a British Crew. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 5

The coal bunkers of the Newcastle liner Cavinrout, which was bound to America, with 900 Russian and Armenian emigrants, were discovered to be…

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German Steamer Slar[?] Strikes a Papuan Reef. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1910 · page 5

The Nord Deutsche Lloyd's small steamer Star, from German Papua, arrived at Brisbane this morning. Captain Hang reports that on the night…

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Mutinous Emigrants. on a Russian Steamer. Suppressed by Marines. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1910 · page 5

A mutiny broke out among the Russian and American emigrants on board the steamer Kanawha, which had taken them off the burning…

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The Steamer Pericles. Wreck Located. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1910 · page 5

Captain Alrey, of the Government steamer Penguin, who was instructed to search for the wreck of the steamer Pericles, succeeded In locating, the…

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The Minimbah Wrecked. at the Manning. Harrington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1910 · page 5

The North Coast Company's steamer Minimbah, which left Newcastle on Tuesday evening for the Maning River, struck the breakwater at the entrance to the…

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Fire on a Steamer. the Liner Telamon. Vessel at Perim. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 5

The steamer Telamon, 4500 tons, owned by the Ocean Steamship Company (Holt's Blue Funnel line), which sailed from Sydney, on March 2nd for…

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Story of the Lifeboat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 2

This is the jubilee year of the charter of the Royal National Lifeboat Insitution, and in a paper on the subject of "The Lifeboat and Its Work,"…

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