The Hesperian. Steamer Was Torpedoed. Washington
Mr. Lansing, the United States Secretary of States, has announced that American naval exports have found, after the closest investigation, that the steamer…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1915
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 11
Steamer Strikes a Reef. Eighteen Lives Lost. Marshfield (Oregon)
The steamer Santa Calra, of 1983 tons, owned by the North Pacific S.S. Company, of San Francisco, struck a reef while on a voyage to that [?]ty, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer. Sunk by Submarines. London
It is officially stated that two submarines in the Eastern Medlterranean on Friday sank the British armed boarding steamer Tara, 6322 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Rochambeau. Resumes Her Journey New York
A wireless message has been received from the captain of the French steamer Rochambeau, 12,678 tons, which was reported to the returning to Halifax with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Nord
Further information as to the steamer. Nord shows that she struck near Hippolyte Rocks, off the Tasman Peninsula, at 5,30 p.m. on Sunday. She immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrest of a Steamer. Washington
A British cruiser is reported to have seized a suspicious American steamer called the Zeelandia, in a Mexican port, despite the American captain's protest,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Destroyer Wrecked. London
The British destroyer Louis has been stranded, and totally wrecked, in the Eastern Mediterranean. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Sunk. London
The Liverpool steamer Rhineland has been sunk. Twenty-three persons are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Steamer. Sunk by Austrians. Rome
It is semi-officially reported that an Austrian submarine on Tuesday, in the vicinity of Syracuse, sank the Italian steamer Firenge, travelling towards Port Said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Bosnia. Sunk Off Sicily. Rome
A submarine, flying the Austrian Flag, sank the Italian steamer Bosnia, 2561 tons, owned by the Italian Society of Maritime Service, off the coast of Sicily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE S.S. Anglia. Story of the Wreck London
Signaller Hunter, who had been in the trenches for eleven months, and was invalided home sick, boarded the hospital ship Anglia at Boulogne on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Thelma Safe. Copenhagen
The British steamer Thelma, 1350 tons; which had been chased by the enemy into Swedish waters, but was protected by a small Swedish torpedo boat, has arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Steamer. Escapes From a Submarine. Paris
It is officially announced that on the 24th Instant a German submarine fired thirty shots on the steamer Tafiva, in the Eastern Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Delayed. Firemen's Demands. Melbourne
A the result of the strike, the Huddart, Parker steamer Westralla was unable to leave for New Zealand on Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplanes Foiled. Escape of a Steamer. Rotterdam
Three German aeroplanes near the Noord Hinder Lightship, on the Dutch coast, attacked the British steamer Ballgownie, 1061 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Swansea Sunk
The well-known kotch Swansea was sunk at the A.A. Company's wharf yesterday morning, with a cargo of coal she had just loaded, having been struck by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Sunk. Crew Reach Malta. London
The British steamer Malinche has been sunk in the Mediterranean. The crew and two lifeboats reached Malta exhausted, by battling with heavy seas for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Star of New Zealand. Ashore Near Ushant. London
The s.s. Star of New Zealand, 4400 tons, is ashore on the rocks near Ushant, on the west coast of France. Forty-six persons were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosion on a Steamer. Foul Play Suspected. London
Further details have been received of the disaster to the steamer Minnesota, which was bound from Seattle for London with a cargo of war supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on a Steamer. Incendiarism Suspected. Halifax (N.s.)
The British steamer Cariton, 5262 tons, belonging to the Carlton S.S. Company, Limited, of Newcastle, and bound for England, has arrived here on fire…
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