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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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A Mystery of the Sea. Direlict Comes Ashore

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

An extraordinary incident occurred in the bay north of Blyth, Northumberland, the other night, a direliet vessel coming ashore just before…

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Riviera Storm. Promenades Destroyed. Gordon Bennett's Yacht Wrecked

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 7

The Paris correspondent of the London "Express" wrote on 1st November:-- The entire Riviera, from Nice to St…

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Rome Express Wrecked. a Midnight Collision. Ghastly Scenes

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 7

From Home on 7th October the correspondent of the London "Dally Mall" wrote:-- A terrible railway disaster occurred at…

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Wreck. LONDON

Manilla Express · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

The British ship Pengwern was wrecked in the North Sea. Twenty four [?]ands were drowned…

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Steamer Ablaze. Stirring Story of the Sea

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

A stirring story of the sea was told by members of the crew of the liner Haversham Grange, who arrived at Southampton from Capetown on the 19th…

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Schooner Damaged. LONDON

Manilla Express · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 2

The schooner Alma Doepel, while attempting to cross the cross the bar at the Bellinger River yesterday struck the end of the Breakwater,…

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The Dover Breakwater. a Steamer Charges. Damages, Forty Thousand

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 7

The Swedish steamer Olaus Olsson, entering Dover Harbor at midnight on Saturday, 21st October, crashed broadside on into the southern…

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Fearful Explosion. Dynamite Factory Wrecked. Eighty Persons Killed. Over Two Hundred Injured

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2

English files to 30th November give particulars in telegrams from Berlin correspondents of the terrible disaster at Witten, Westphalia, on the 28th…

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Steamer Ablaze Stirring Story of the Sea

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 3

A stirring story of the sea was told by members of the crew of the liner Haversham Grange, who arrived at Southampton from Capetown on the 19th…

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Doomed Women's Despair. Penned in a Sydney Steamer

The Moree News · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 3

FACES AT THE CARIN WINDOWS. The shamper six resting the the washington correspondent of the " Daily Mail" on 19th November has been sunk in following…

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Awful Wreck. Sydney

Manilla Express · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 6

THE steamer Berlin, from Harwich to Rotterdam, was driven ashore at the latter port during a gale, and 141 passengers were…

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Sensational Wrecks

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 5

LATER details concerning the wreck on Voorne Island, Holland, of the Great Eastern Railway Co.'s steamer Berlin, which was altended by such apalling…

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Wreck. LONDON

Manilla Express · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 2

The Austrian Lloyds steamer Imperatrix was wrecked at Crete. The passengers and crew mustered 140, of whom only 17 so far have…

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New Steamer Founders. Crew of Twenty-four Lost

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 3

Further particulars of a marine disaster cabled on the 19th December are given in the "Westminster Gazette", are as folows:--…

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Big Liner Ashore

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 4

THE steamer Dakotn, belonging to the United States Great Northern Railway and Steamship Company, is ashore at Noshima, Japan, and is badly damaged…

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New Steamer Founders. Crew of Twenty-four Last

The Moree News · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 3

Further particulars of a marine disaster outer on the 19th Dcemeber are given in the "Westminster Gazette", are as folows-…

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Wrecked. SYDNEY

Manilla Express · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 2

The White Star liner Suevic bound from Australia to England, was wrecked on the rocks under the Lizard…

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The Wrecked Suevic

Manilla Express · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 6

LATER particulars of the wreck of the steamer Suevic, off Lizard Point, on the coast of Cornwall, show that the Suevic struck on the only part of…

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Hit a Sunken Wreck

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 4

THE steamer Invertay, 3974 tons, arrived at Fremantle on Monday from New York. Captain Houghton reports that two days before reaching…

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Coastal Steamer Ashore

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 4

WHILE crossing in on Sunday afternoon the steamer Electra went ashore on the South Spit, inside the Manning Heads, well inside the break water. She is…

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