Total Wreck Norwegian Barque SYDNEY
The Ashmore, a Norwegian barque well known at Australian ports, has become a total wreck. While on the voyage to St. John to load for Sydney, she struck the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
130 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7
Huns and Vandals Wrecked Churches Destruction and Plunder LONDON, Sunday Night
Reuter's Paris correspondent states: "The Bishop of Soissons declares that too Germans destroyed completely 100 churches, and plundered and partially demolished 100…
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Jane L. Stanford, the four masted American schooner, arrived in Sydney yesterday towed by the tug Champion. Her fore and main topmasts, together with yards,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brindisi Bombed Enemy Machines Wrecked LONDON, Tuesday night
Reuter's correspondent at Rome telegraphs that the Italian official statement says: A squadron or Austrian seaplanes flew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lost in Storm Ascania Total Wreck Off Newfoundland Coast VANCOUVER
A message from New York states that the steel twin-screw steamer, Ascania (9121 tons) of the Cunard line, has been totally wrecked during a storm off the…
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The Cunard Company's steamer Ascania (9121 tons) is ashore on the coast of Newfoundland. It Is reported that the vessel is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner Crescent Burned. Crew Reach San Francisco. San Francisco
The schooner Crescent, 1443 tons, from Sydney, has been burned at sea. The crew, including the captain's Wife, rowed for 15 days, and on arrival at San…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner's Fate Privations of Crew Fourteen Days in Open Boat VANCOUVER
A San Francisco message states that after 14 days in an open boat on the Pacific 14 people from the five-masted schooner Crescent landed late on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Zeppelin Wrecked
Reports from Bergen state that a wrecked Zeppelin, half-submerged, has been seen off Bjornsund. In the gardens around London there are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Makambo. Sydney
The steamer Induna arrived at Sydney to-day with all but one of the passengers taken from the Makambo, which ran ashore on a reef at Lord Howe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America's Activity Millions of Troops Wrecking Submarine Menace MELBOURNE
The American Consul at Melbourne has furnished Reuter with the following wireless message from Honolulu: To-day is the anniversary of the landing of the first…
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This disaster recalls the loss of the Elingamite in November, 1902, another steamer of the Huddart Parker line. The Elingamite was wrecked on the Three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Steamer Makambo
The steamer Makambo, which went ashore at Lord Howe Island, recently, is now in Mort's Dock, Balmain, and a preliminary examination of the damage…
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The Commonwealth authorities have received advice that the steamer John Murray has been wrecked on Maldon Island, in the Pacific. All the crew,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Sydney Letter. the Farmers and Their Troubles.—no. 4 Lifeboat.—mr. Hughes Explained.—the Question of Brands.—"stuff" in the Domain.—the Hotelkeepers.—wine Versus Whisky.—the Blind As Poultry-keepers.—a Cat and Rat Item. Sydney
The farmers are here and flourishing sometimes it is a stick: more often a question. It is again affirmed that the farmers are here, because some of them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cawarra Wreck Sad Story Re-told
Although 52 years have passed since the steamer Cawarra was wrecked on the oyster bank near Nobbys, the memory of that sorrowful occasion will never fade while any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Malachite
The steamer Malachite was still ashore yesterday near Port Kembla. About 50 tons of cargo was lifted on Thursday, and it was thought that the vessel would float…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Denounce Peace Talk Socialistic Resolve Must Wreck Wilhelmstrasse LONDON, Monday night
A pro-Ally Socialist demonstration in Trafalgar-square resolved, inter alla, to oppose any peace terms until the Hohenzollerns' and Hapsburgs' military rule had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flag No Safeguard Spanish Steamer Sunk LONDON, Wednesday Night
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam reports that a Spanish steamer with the Spanish Minister to Greece, Signor Lopez de Vega, aboard, en route to Spain was…
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A telegram from Athens states that a Spanish steamer, carrying Senor Devega, the Spanish Minister to Greece, has been submarined, although Germany had been…
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