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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1902

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A Terrible Shipwreck. (By Cable.) London, January 5

The Western Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1902 · page 2

The steamer Wallawalla from San Francisca to Pugget Sound, with 36 first class and 28 second class and third class passengers and crew, bringing the total to 124…

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Rescue of Shipwrecked Men. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1902 · page 3

Two boats containing about 24 shipwrecked men were picked up by the steamer, Abergeldie, off Wilson's Promontory, Victoria, this morning. The…

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A Shipwrecked Crew. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1902 · page 4

The steamer Abergeldie, which picked up two boat loads of crew and officers of the abandoned ship Port Pa[?]rick, has arrived in Sydney. The captain says the…

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Schooner Disabled

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1902 · page 2

Early this morning a schooner, the name of which has not been ascertained, was disabled off North Head. The crew were taken off by the pilot boat and landed at Watson's…

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A. Disabled Steamer

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1902 · page 2

It was reported from Gape Otway. yesterday that the Adelaide Co.'s chartered steamer Ras Elba bad broken down…

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Latest Telegrams. International. Wreck and Loss of Life. London, March 5

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 2

The steamer Teber, bound from Louisberg to Halifax, with coal, went ashore and was wrecked. Thirty lives were lost…

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A Wreck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 March 1902 · page 4

A quantity of wreckage from a steamer has been washed ashore at Neumea, New Caledonia…

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Wrecked

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 4

A barque, name, unknown has gone ashore on the Victorian Coast. The crew are safe…

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Cablegrams. Ashore on the Isle of Wight. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1902 · page 4

The steamer Kin[?]auns Castle, from South Africa, stranded on the Isle of Wight in a dense fog. The mails and £80 passengers were safely landed…

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Wreck in Japan. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1902 · page 3

A gale has wrecked the herring fleet on the coast of Japan and 254 fishermen have been drowned…

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Steamer Boveric

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 May 1902 · page 4

Anxiety for the safety of the steamer Boveric is increasing. The vessel left Melbourne for Durban with ninety people on board, and is now seventeen days…

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Steamer Boveric

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 May 1902 · page 2

It is estimated that the a steamer Boveric has drifted about 800 miles since the breakdown of the machinery…

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Missing Steamer Boveric

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 May 1902 · page 3

Mr. Deakin has cabled to the Imperial authorities asking for the assistance of British warships to search for the missing steamer Boveric…

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The Steamer Boveric Picked Up

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 17 May 1902 · page 5

The Boveric has been towed into Fremantle. Only 50 horses were lost and there was plenty of food left for several days longer. The accident happened a thousand miles west of…

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Sketcher. the First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1902 · page 5

IN many quarters the idea seems still to prevail—and we gave expression to it quite recently is as article on 'Some Early Steamships'—that the…

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Shipwreck at Botany

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1902 · page 4

The schooner Advance, one of the oldest and best known vessels on the coast, was totally wrecked at Botany this morning during the heavy weather…

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Wreck of an Australian Ship. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 4

The barque Gustave Adolf,from Freemantle for Capetown, has been wrecked off the coast of Caledon,off Caps Colony. The captain and three of the crew were…

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The Missing Steamer. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 4

No tidings hare yet been received of the missing steamer Quiraing, now 17 days out from Newcastle to Dunedin…

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The Missing Steamer. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 4

There is still no news of the missing steamer, which is now 21 days out from Newcastle to Dunedin…

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A Drifting Steamer. Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 3

The N.Z. Steamship Company's steamer Waikato is reported to have broken her main shaft in the Atlantic Ocean and is drifting south-east at the…

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