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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921

175 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 9

Lost Steamer Canastota. Agents Fined. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 November 1921 · page 6

Regarding the steamer Canastota, which left Sydney on June 13 for America, via New Zealand, with a cargo of benzine, and had not been heard of…

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The Sonoma Robbery. Effected on the Steamer. the Locks Changed. (Australian Cable Association.) New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 November 1921 · page 5

The sum of £25,000 in gold coin, has been stolen from the American mail steamer Sonoma, which sailed from Sydney for San Francisco on November 2…

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Kemalists' Munitions Greek Capture Italian Steamer Held Up LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 November 1921 · page 1

Reuter's Athens correspondent reports that the Greek cruiser Yperochi stopped an Italian steamer off the Ionian Islands, bound for Adalla, and…

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Dope Fiend Prisoner's Serious Condition "A Perfect Wreck" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 6

When the case of Arthur Henry Biustead (14) was mentioned at the Central Police Court before Mr. Burton on Smith., S.M., yesterday, the…

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Schooner Sunk Three Men Drowned LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 December 1921 · page 5

Mr. Michael Collins, leader of the Slan Fein delegation, with Messrs. Gavan Duffy and Childers, were passengers by a mailboat to Ireland…

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Fire on Steamer Boorara Alight Australian Cargo Damaged LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 December 1921 · page 1

At Dunkirk a fire broke out on the Boorara, a requisitioned Commonwealth steamer laden with 6000 tons of wool, barley, meat, and copra from…

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A Port Stephens Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 11

Mr. Jessie Gregson, general superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company from 1876 to 1905, has the following reference to a Port Stephens…

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Steamer Thefts Passengers Lose Money

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 December 1921 · page 3

While deck cabin passengers were asleep on the steamer Newcastle, travelling between Sydney and Newcastle last night, thieves entered the…

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Smouldering Wool P.F.A. WRECK Dense Smoke Clouds SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 5

The debris at the P.F.A. Building is still smouldering. This morning the smoke was so dense that the structure could not be seen from…

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Walsh Island. Ferry Steamer Launched

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 4

At the Walsh Island Pockyard yesterday morning the Koompartoo, the first of the large fery passenger steamers contracted for by the Dockyard for the…

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Steamer Mataram. Held Up in Sydney Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 5

Owing to firemen demanding three more trimmers, Messrs. Burns, Philp and Company's steamer Mataram, which was scheduled to leave Sydney to-morrow for…

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Steamer Construction Heavy Government Cost Private Yards Difference Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 8

According to an official statement regarding the sale of steamers for the quarter ended in September, while the Commonwealth Government is…

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Rushing the Cook Trouble on Steamer

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 December 1921 · page 5

There was trouble on the steamer Waltomo, at Newcastle, last Saturday night, and William Drew, a cook, had a row with Joseph Smith, a seaman…

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Fires in Newcastle. Outbreak on Schooner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 December 1921 · page 4

Shortly after two o'clock yesterday an outbreak of fire was discovered on the American 4-masted schooner Helen B. Sterling, lying in the Wickham Basin,…

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Holiday Fires Nipped in the Bud Schooner in Danger

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 December 1921 · page 6

Fires which broke out on the Helen B. Sterling in Newcastle harbor, and in Thalberg's Chambers, Hunter-street, were extinguished yesterday…

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Schooner Leaking Repeat Seeks Port Coming to Newcastle SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 31 December 1921 · page 6

Bound for Gray's Harbor to Sydney, with a cargo of timber, the American four-masted schooner Repeat has been forced to put into…

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