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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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The Fifeshire Wreck. Boat Reported Picked Up. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1911 · page 5

Captain Cremar, of the steamer Fifeshire, ashore near Cape Guardaful, reports there is a native rumour that a dhow had picked up the…

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Steamer Seized. Fitted for War. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 5

Customs officers at Gravesend seized a steamer fitted with munitions of war and wireless and amply provisioned. The captain declined to give any…

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Wreckage on Fraser Island. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 5

The port officer at Brisbane has received a message from the harbour master at Maryborough to the effect that Land Commissioner Bourne, while riding along the…

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Launch of a Steamer. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 August 1911 · page 5

A new steamer for the Union Steamship, Company of New Zealand was launched at Fairfield yesterday. She will sail at the end of October…

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New Steamer Kanna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 4

The Union S.S. Company's new cargo steamer Kanna arrived at Bunbury. West Australia on the 11th instant, from Beira, South Africa, to load a cargo of jarrah for New…

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Munitions of War. Another Steamer Stopped. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 5

The steamer Hessie, laden with munitions of war has been detained at Barrow. The "Daily Express" states that…

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Steamer on Fire. Laden with Lyddite Shells. Malta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 5

The steamer Menelaus arrived at Malta with her No. 4 hold on fire, and the port authorities were notified that the adjoining hold contained…

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Steamer on a Reef. an Island Wreck. Suva

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 5

The steamer Strathardle, bound from Newcastle to San Francisco, arrived here to-day. She reports that the steamer Michael of St. George (?) was…

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Ship Thekal Ashore. Nine of the Crew Saved. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 5

The German ship Thekal has gone ashore in the Strait of Lemarne, Patagonia. Nine of the crew have been saved,…

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Charleston Hurricane. Many Vessels Wrecked. Charleston

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 5

Six torpedo boats are ashore at Charleston, in South Carolina, and a score of other small vessels have been wrecked…

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State Immigration. Ten Steamer Loads. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 5

Mr. T. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, will despatch to Sydney during September 2400 assisted and nominated emigrants. They…

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The Fifeshire Wreck. the Missing Boat. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 5

A letter received from one of the rescued passengers by the steamer Fifeshire, states that the missing boat contained five women and four…

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Steamer Blown Up. Eight Men Killed. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 5

The Government steamer Strewe has been destroyed as a result of her boiler exploding. The captain and seven of the crew…

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The Fifeshire Wreck. Arrival of Survivors. Story of Their Sufferings. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 5

Reuter's Agency at Marseilles reports that 25 of the survivors of the passengers and the crew of the wrecked steamer Fifeshire have arrived at that…

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Steamer for New Zealand. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 5

It is reported that the Union steamship Company of New Zealand has given an order to a Tyne firm for the construction of a cargo boat of…

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The Fifeshire Wreck. Search for Missing Boat. Aden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 5

The steamer Volturno has returned. She wan unable to board the Fifeshire owing to the heavy sea. The Fifeshire was burning from…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Eighty-one Drowned. Lima

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

The South American Company's steamer Tucapel has been wrecked northward of Quilea. Eighty-one persons were drowned…

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Steamer Disabled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 4

The coasting steamer Corra Lynn, bound from the Tweed River to Sydney, was six miles east of Newcastle at 4.25 a.m. yesterday, disabled. The vessel,…

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Howard Smith's New Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 4

Some particulars to hand by the English mail regarding the new passenger liner for the Howard Smith Company indicate that she will be of a very superior class. The…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Passengers Rescued. Seattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 5

The wooden steamer Ramona, southward bound from Skagway, went ashore on Spanish Islands off the Alaskan coast, and is a total loss…

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