The Steamer Conargo
Mr. Fisher, the High Commissioner for Australia, has ascertained that the steamer Conargo was mined or submarined. Four boats were launched. One went…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
130 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7
One Steamer Left Pasengers to Perth SYDNEY
The Melbourne Steamship Company's Dimboola, now in the passenger trade from Sydney to the west, will remain in that service. Up to the present the Controller of…
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Copenhagen reports that a British warship engaged a Zeppelin outside Jarderen. A shell damaged the Zeppelin, which descended, and was wrecked…
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"The liner she's a lady, And the warship is her husband." Kipling might have written that first line of the steamer Hunter and expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spanish Steamer Sunk London, Wednesday night
According to a Madrid message, the Spanish steamer Louisa was torpedoed as she was proceeding to the United States. Three of the crew were drowned…
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A Washington message says it is announced that the American steamer Lake Moor was submarined recently. Thirty-five are missing…
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The American steamer Florence H., of 8000 tons, was blown up in a French port as the result of an internal explosion. Thirty-seven out of a crew of 75 were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Steamer Lost London, Monday night
A Washington message says: The steamship Florence has been blown up. Thirty of the crew were killed…
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Cape Race has been the scene of a thrilling wreck, toe Newfoundland steamer Florizel having gone ashore there in the fearful blizzard of an early morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Cables Wrecked Mole Sensation in Germany News Hard to Take LONDON, Thursday night
A message from Amsterdam states that the "Telegraaf's" Frontier" correspondent says that the Zeebrugge Mole has been entirely separated from the shore and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mishap to a Steamer
The American liner Saint Paul (11,620 tons) overturned in dock and sank. Five hundred labourers who were on board the St. Paul escaped uninjured,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schooner Launched SYDNEY
The suxillary schocner Ma[?] built by Mcrrison and Sinclair, at Baimain, for Burns, Philip and Company, Ltd., was launched to-day. The Makos is a wooden vessel…
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It is reported from New York that a French warship rammed and sank the American steamer City of Athens in a dense fog off the Delaware coast…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Steamer Sunk Rammed by Cruiser Vancouver
A message from Washington gives further particulars of the sinking at the City of Athens of the Smith and Sons line, a steel screw steamer of 5601 tons, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City of Athens Wreck
The number of passengers and crew lost from the steamer City of Athens, which collided in a fog with a French warship, off the coast of Delaware, and sank,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Steamer Sunk
The Navy Department announces that the American steamer Neches has been torpedoed, end sunk in European waters. There was no loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Steamer Sunk Clan Mackay in Collision LONDON, Friday Night
A telegram from Gibraltar states that the steamer Clan Mackay wan sunk in a collision on May 11. The crew were saved. Clan Mackay was a steel screw steamer of…
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The new steamer Kofuku Maru, of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha line, which left Melbourne for Kobe, via Manila, arrived in Sydney yesterday. The steamer was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disaster in Paris Bombs Wreck a Suburb
Thirty people were killed and some 1500 injured by a series of terrific explosions at the Labour Neuve hand grenade factory on the northern outskirts of Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dutch Steamer Service
It is probable that the Royal Dutch Packet line will resume its interrupted service shortly. This company entered the Australian trade some years ago with two…
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