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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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Crushed in the Ice. Sealing Steamer's Fate. Halifax

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

The sealing steamer Harlaw was caught in an icefield in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and crushed to pieces. The crew, numbering 130, escaped…

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Wreckage at Palm Island. Townsville

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

The Government launch Teal has retuned from Palm Islands, and reported that Mr. Stains, C.P.S. at Charters Towers, who, on holiday at Palm Island, found…

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THE S.S. Yongala. Mails and Wreckage. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

The. Deputy Postmaster-General has received information from officers at Townsville and Ingham to the effect that the Halifax police had been advised that…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

The steamer Iroquois, engaged in the coastal trade from Victoria, was wrecked yesterday between 20 and 25 of those aboard being drowned…

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Wreck of a Steamer. on the Canadian Coast. Many Lives Lost. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

The steamer Iroquois, engaged in the coastal trade from Victoria, was wrecked yesterday, and eighteen persons were drowned…

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Steamer Brisbane. Aground Near Port Kembla. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

Mr. A. N. Reid, manager in Sydney for the Melbourne Steamship Company, received a telegram this afternoon stating that the company's steamer…

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Wreck of the Yongala. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

Mr. Wareham, the Brisbane manager of the Adelaide Steamship Company, has received the offer of an apparatus for revealing submerged objects to a depth of…

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The Iroquois Wreck. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1911 · page 5

The loss of life by the wreck of the steamer Iroquois is now given as 16…

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Schooner Lost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 4

The well-known four-masted schooner W[?]le R. Flame has been lost off Topolohampo according to advices at San Francisco, by the marine department of the…

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Wreck of the Yongala. Search Given Up. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 5

Mr. Wareham, the manager of the Brisbane branch of the Adelaide Steamship Company, stated to-night that so far as the company was concerned, the…

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Wreck of the Iroquois. Arrest of the Captain. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 April 1911 · page 5

Sears, the captain of the steamer Iroquois, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. The vessel was wrecked some days…

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Our Brisbane Letter. Brisbane, April 15. the Wrecked Yongala

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 4

Although all doubt as to the fate of the Adelaide Steamship Company's fine vessel Yongala has been set at rest by the finding of cargo and mails, together…

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Ship Glenbank. Wreck Located. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 4

In February last the Russian sailing ship Glenbank foundered in a "willy-willy" off Balla Balla, on the north-west coast of West Australia, twenty-three lives being…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Twenty-one Deaths. Oporto

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 5

The steamer San Fernando has sunk off Cape Finisterre, at the north-west extremity of Spain. Twenty-one persons were drowned…

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The Tottenham Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 4

The Court of inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Tottenham, of the island of Juan de Nova, in the Mozambique Channel, delivered its finding at Durban an March 15, stating…

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The Steamer Bergedorf. a Total Wreck. Calcutta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 5

The German-Australian steamer Bergedort, which went ashore at Cape Comorin, on the southern coast of India, on April 4th; is given up as a…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Three Persons Drowned. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 5

The Portuguese steamer Lusltania was wrecked at Cape Point yesterday facing a mist. The cruiser Forte and a tug took…

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The Lusitania Wreck. Four Lives Lost. Lights Complained Of. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 5

Captain Dafariz, the master of the Portuguese steamer Lusitania, which was wrecked off Cape Point, refused to leave the sinking vessel…

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Falls of Garry Wrecked. Five of the Crew Missing. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 5

The barque Falls of Garry has been wrecked near Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, during a fog. A boat containing five of the crew…

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Wreck of an Airship. No One Injured. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 5

The Parseval airship, with ten passengers, started from Amsterdam, but dropped and hung in a tree near Hanover…

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