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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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Japanese Craft Wrecked

The Wellington Times · Monday 19 August 1907 · page 2

A Japanese fishing boat was wrecked on the Barrier Reef. Seven of the crew, all aboriginals, were drowned…

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Steamer Traffic

The Western Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 2

Loathe, August 27.—The steamer Jandra and barge left up stream at 8.30. a.m…

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Steamer Traffic

The Western Herald · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 2

August 30. Louth.—The steamer Advance and barge passed down stream at 5 p.m., yesterday…

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Nothing but a Wreck. a Prompt Salvage. The Case of Mrs. E. COLE

The Cobar Herald · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 8

A narrative well worth reading is one which was told by Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, of No. 78 Carlton Crescent. Summer Hill, in the company of a…

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Steamer Traffic

The Western Herald · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 2

September.—The steamer Advance and barge left Tilpa up stream yesterday evening at 3.30 p. m…

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Nothing but a Wreck. a Prompt Salvage. The case of Mrs. E. COLE. (By a Local Reporter.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 8

A narrative well worth reading is one which was told by Mrs. Elizabeth Colo, of No. 78 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill, in the company of a…

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Steamer Traffic

The Western Herald · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 2

September 10.—The steamer Pilot and barge left Louth down stream at 4 o'clock this morning. September 13.—The steamer Jandra and…

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A Steamer Missing

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 5

Tho steamer Menowai, which is overdue from Wellington, is believed to have broken down. A steamer and two tugs have been flout in search…

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Wreck of the Tomki

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 2

Whilst the steamer Tomki was crossing the Richmond River bar on Saturday, she lost her steerage way, owing to a number of heavy waves…

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The World's Steamer Record

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 5

The new steamship Lusitania yesterday covered 617 miles in 24 hours, being the world's record…

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A Wreck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 17 October 1907 · page 4

The steamer Trilby, timber laden for Sydney, while crossing the bar at Port Macquarie, yesterday, drifted on to the north spit. She is now full of…

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The Steamer Trilby Ashore

The Cobar Herald · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 4

The steamer Trilby, timber laden for Sydney, while crossing the bar at Port Macquarie yesterday, drifted on to the north spit. The…

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Shipwreck

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 5

The Swedish ship Felheld, bound from Rio Janeiro to Hobart, has been wrecked on the west coast of Tasmania during a terrific storm. Five of the crow were drowned and the…

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Short Story. [?]Mong the Wreckage

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 7

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took me some yeurs ago behind the [?] of Dury Lane [?] Theatre while the great battle scene in one of…

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The Sequel of the Alfheld Wreck. Survivors die from Starvation

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 23 October 1907 · page 2

A SEARCH party from the steamer Koomookarra, which went to the assistance of the seamen landed in the vicinity of Port Davey from the wrecked barque Alfheld, arrived on Saturday…

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Destructive Storm in Central Australia. [?]odnadatta Wrecked

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 6 November 1907 · page 2

ON Saturday night, a terrific storm passed over [?]dandatta, the terminne of the railway, six hundred miles north of Adelaide. Scarcely a roof was left intact, the hotel being…

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Privations of a Shipwrecked Crew

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 November 1907 · page 3

The barque Alexandra bound from Australia to Panama, was wrecked on the Indefatigable Islands. The captain and five of the crew subsisted for nine months on tortoise food before…

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Nothing but a Wreck. a Prompt Salvage. The case of Mrs. E. COLE. (By a Local Reporter.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 8

A narrative well worth reading is one which was told by Mrs, Elizabeth Cole, of No. 78 Carlton Crescont, Summer Hill, in the company of a…

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Steamer Wrecked

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 5

The steamer Gatesworth, bound from Liverpool to Penarth, foundered, 20 of the crew being drowned…

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A Shipwrecked Crew. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 4

Six members of the crew of the schooner Vineta, which was wrecked near New Brunswick recently, have been rescued from a boat. All except the captain were…

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