Royal Shipwreck Society. Awards for Bravery. Sydney
The annual meeting and presentation of awards in connection with the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society, postponed from August 27th owing to the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917
198 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 10
Schooner's Rough Passage
The schooner Wollamai. which arrived at Port Adelaide from Robart on Friday last had a rough experience…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. Two foreign seamen. O[?] Karlison. and Felix Mandolin, natives of Sweden and Finland respectively, were before the…
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A steamer without lights, and under Admiralty orders, collided with another in the English Channel on Sunday, and sank. Fourteen men were drowned…
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It is believed in Washington that the American steamer Kansas City has been lost. It has been missing since September…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Revolver Incident Trouble on Ferry Steamer
Alfred Edward Adams (24). crane driver, was charged at Newcastle police court this morning, before Mr. F. G. Adrian. S.M., with having at…
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A free fight is reported between a number of New Caledonian and Tahiti boys on a French steamer. The natives were all soldiers in the French…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Cables African Steamer Sunk Women and Children Shelled Casualties Heavy
LONDON, Wednesday,—The steamer Apapa, bound for Liverpool from Africa with 160 passengers, was torpedoed twince in the full moonlight…
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A great explosion occurred to-day in the forehold of a steamer at No. 1 wharf, Victoria Dock, Melbourne. It shook the vessel from stem to stern, and caused a…
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Ottawa reports that a wireless message has been received by the Canadian Government from Magdalen Island, reporting that the official steamer Simcoe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft From Steamer Leather Worth £2,000
An extraordinary theft was revealed during an examination of portion of the cargo of a vessel that recently arrived in Melbourne. Included in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stress in Germany. Physically and Mentally Wrecked Nation
AMSTERDAM, Tuesday— It is reported unimpeachably here that the internal situation in Germany is most critical. The civilian mortality is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on a Steamer. Melbourne
A mysterious fire broke out to-day in the engine room of a large steamer loading at the Victoria Dock, Melbourne, but it was extinguished by the fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Armistice Terms of Main Provisions Impudence to British Navy Jerusalem's Future Pope Warns Turks' Allies Western Front. Huns' Fond Delusion Victory Within 3 Months Thousands of Homes Wrecked
AMSTERDAM, Tuesday.—Great musses of German reinforcements are sweeping into Flanders from the east, this being reminiscent of what…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Trawling. Another Wreck Located
By their seaching operations on the ocean floor contiguous to our coastline, the State trawlers have earned quite a reputation for locating wrecks since…
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The Admiralty reports: The British armed boarding steamer, Stephen Furness, was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Channel Six officers and 95 men…
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A Spanish steamer has arrived with a part of the crew of the Japanese steamer Mayori Maru, which was sunk by a submarine off the coast of Spain on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Naval Operations. Loss of British Destroyer. Bodies Washed Ashore
AMSTERDAM, Sunday.—A salvage steamer flying the Red Cross flag, a steamer, and a lifeboat searched the scene of the…
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