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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1902

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Wreck of the Elingamite. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, November 12

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 2

The Zealandia picked up a boat and a raft containing twenty survivors of the Elingamite, and is returning to Auckland with them…

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The Wreck of the Elingamite. Further Particulars

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 4

THE steamer Elingamite experienced moderate weather after leaving Sydney on Wednesday till noon on Friday, when it came on thick and foggy, continuing so through Saturday and…

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Elingamite Wreck

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 November 1902 · page 2

"Up to a late hour yesterday there were no tidings of the missing boat from the wrecked steamer Elingamite. It is surmised that 20 to 25 persons are still unaccounted…

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Elingamite Wreck

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 November 1902 · page 3

The man-of-war Penguin picked up the raft from the wrecked steamer Elmgamite on Friday. Eight of the occupants were olive and eight had either died or jumped…

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Shipping Disaster. Wreck of the Steamer Elingamite

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 18 November 1902 · page 3

Auckland, Monday.—The Three Kings and the dreary waste of water which surrounds this cluster of islands off the North Island of New Zealand, have been the…

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Wreck of the Elingamite. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, November 14

The Western Herald · Wednesday 19 November 1902 · page 4

The warship Penguin picked up the missing raft with eight survivors of the Elingamite. November 15,…

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Wreck of the Elingamite. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, November 17

The Western Herald · Wednesday 19 November 1902 · page 2

Up to a late hour yesterday no tidings of the missing Elingamite boat had heen received, It ia surmised that from twenty to twenty-five persons are still unaccounted for…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Wreck of the Elingamite. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 November 1902 · page 3

ALL hope of the missing boat is now abandoned. It is understood that thirty people are still missing…

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The Elingamite Wreck Latest Particulars

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 November 1902 · page 3

There are no tidings of the missing boat from the Elinganite wreek. Twenty to twenty-five persons who were on board the steamer are still unaccounted for…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. the Elingamite Wreck. Sydeney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 5

SEVERAL survivors from the Elingamite arrived to-day by the mail steamer Monaron…

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The Wreck of The Elingamite. the Missing Raft Picked Up. Graphic Story by a Survivor

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 3

Steven Rabone Neale, one of the motor men brought over by the Electric Tramway Company, was the most advanced towards recovery. He…

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Survivors of a Wreck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 December 1902 · page 4

The captain and crow, numbering 30, of the Austrian steamer Zvir have reached North Gascoyne, West Australia, in three boats. The steamer was wrecked on Point…

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Wreck of the Elingamite. The Inquiry

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 5

THE inquiry into the wreck of the Elingamite was opened at Auckland on Friday. The Crown Prosecutor, in opening his address, said that the inquiry could not be too…

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The Quverlocky Wrecked

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 5

The ship Quverlocky from Liverpool, with general cargo was wrecked off the Victorian coast. Thirteen of the crew got ashore while eleven others are missing in an open boat…

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