Torpedoed Steamer Conargos. Four Australians Missing. LONDON
Four Australians are unaccounted for in connection with the torpedoed steamer Conargos…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918
139 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 3 of 7
Dutch Schooner Bombed. London
An Amsterdam message states: Four German seaplanes held up and bombed and badly damaged a Dutch schooner en route to 'Ymuiden. They stoic the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Bombardment Maternity Hospital Wrecked. London
The long-range gun which in bombarding Paris killed two persons yesterday, and wounded twelve. The maternity hospital full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Steamer Torpedoed London
The Washington Navy Department has announced that the American steamship Sakemoor, with a naval crew aboard, was torpedoed in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Blown Up LONDON
A Washington message says: The steamship Florence has been blown up. Thirty of the crew were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Steamer Sunk. Officers and Men Missing. LONDON
Washington reports: The Navy Department announced that the American steamship Lake Moor, on her maiden voyage, with a naval crew aboard, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Premier Confident. Big Steamer Launched at Dunkirk. LONDON
Reuter's Paris correspondent says: M. Clemenceau, when he returned from the front, said he had brought back a feeling of profound confidence and reassurance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Submarined Steamer Plight of Passengers. London
The Cronsa's passengers state that two torpedoes struck the vessel in quick succession. One did not explode. The majority of the passengers escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Norwegian Steamer Lost. LONDON
Vancouver reports: A New York message says that the Norwegian steamer, Fjell, was sunk in a collision with the Livingstone, off the Virginian coast, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cruiser Rams Steamer. Sixty-six Lives Lost. London
Sixty-six lives were lost when a French cruiser rammed the City of Athens, bound for New York, from Savannah. All the passengers and many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Sunk
It has been unofficially reports in Sydney that the steamer Walheme was sunk recently in the Moditerrance The Wa home, which wa sone of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Cross. Kitchener Flag Whirlwind. £2100 War Bond For 2/. French Steamer. Torpedoed in Neutral Waters. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON
If you haven't got a ticket in the Kitchener Flag yet you will have one by the end of May unless you hide from the Red Cross Girls in town. They are Another instance of German disregard of neutral territorial waters is the case of the French steamer Provence, which was torpedoed from the land side when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Concrete Steamer Trial Trip Successful. Big Plant to be Laid Down. MELBOURNE
The American Consul at Melbourne has furnished Reuter with the following wireless message from San Francisco. The trial trip of the first concrete…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Stranded. Melbourne
The steamer, Komura, which left Melbourne on Saturday for Adelaide, and Fremantle, is stranded in the South Channel, but it is in no danger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Clan Mackay Sunk. LONDON
A telegram from Gibraltar states that the steamer Clan Mackay was sunk in a collision on May 11. The crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Derelict Spanish Steamer. Probable U Boat Victim London
Reuter's Las Palmas correspondent says: The Spanish sailing vessel Joakquina was brought in. She was found a drifting derelict, close to the African…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Storm. Steamer Delayed Fifty Hours. SYDNEY
The steamemr, Wakitapu, arrived at Launceston to-day nearly 50 hours behind time, due to encountering terrific weather, during which all on board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Irish Steamer Sunk. Thirty-seven Lives Lost. London
The Irish steamer Inniscarra, iron Fishguard to Cork, lias been torpedoed and sunk. Only live, including the captain, were saved. It is believed that 37…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Schooner Wrecked. Sydney
The American schooner Expansion, bound from San Francisco to Suva,is a total wreck on Suva Reef. The crow was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Schooner Sunk. No Rise in Insurance Rates. LONDON
A Vancouver message says: Washington reports that the Government has decided that the submarine danger is insufficient to justify an advance in marine…
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