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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

34 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Wreck of a French Mailboat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 3

THE French mail steamer Russie (2015 tons) from Oran (Algeria) was wrecked at the Faraman Roeks, Marseilles. A high sea baffled effort to rescue those on board,…

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Latest Intelligence Sydney Monday Shipwreck

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

The schooner May Byrnes, bound from Newcastle to Sydney missed stays and went ashore at North Head on Saturday night, and became a total week . Crew saved…

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Wreck of a Steamer--150 Lives Lost

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 2

LONDON, February 23.--The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of Riode Janeiro, from Hongkong and Yokohama (Japan), struck on a ledge at tho entrance…

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A Fearful Shipwreck The Captain Pays

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 2

The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, from Hongkong and Yokohama to San Francisco struck a ledge at the entrance of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, in a fog. The crew…

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The "Rio" Wreck

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 March 1901 · page 2

AT the inquiry in connection with the loss of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to the Golden Gate, San Francisco, which involved the loss of over…

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Short Story Among the Wreckage

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 March 1901 · page 5

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took…

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The "Rio" Wreck

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 2

At the inquiry in connection with the loss of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, which involved the loss of over 100 lives, the jury found that Captain Ward, who commanded…

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A Steamer Wrecked

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 3

In a brief message from Gabo Island on Tuesday, the lighthouse-keeper reports that a lifebuoy marked "Federal" and a great quantity of wreckage have come ashore…

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Wreck of The Karrakatta

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 3

The steamer Karrakatta, twelve hundred tons, has been wrecked on the West Australia coast, the passengers and crew being saved…

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Latest Intelligence Sydney, Thursday. Foundered Steamer Federal

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

The Victorian Government steamer Lady Loch left Gabb last night with six dead bodies which had been identified as men forming a portion of the crew of the ill-fated…

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Wreck of the Federal

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 2

Only one of the six bodies washed ashore from the ill-fated steamer Federal at Gabo and brought on to Melbourne on Thursday night has been positively identified. This…

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Wrecks on the Victorian Coast

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

The gales of the past few days resulted in the wreck of at least two vessels on the Gippsland coast. The first of these is the Canadian barque Artisan, which went ashore off Cape Patterson on Tuesday…

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Heartrending Sufferings by a Ship Wrecked Crew

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 3

PARTICULARS of the wreck of the barque Angola in the Phillipine Islands state that nineteen men were left on two rafts for 25 days, when all were starving, eating boots…

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Straitsman,-or The-outlaw at Bay. [All Rights Reserved] an Australian Story. Chapter I. the Wreck

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 1

OUT of, a gaping fissure in the littoral side of a giant cliff, a man—or rather a being with some human resemblance—peered forth…

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Wreck of a Mailboat--Panic Aboard 9.55 a.m

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 3

The Lusitania is a hopeless wreck. The rougher element among the passengers created a panic, rushing the boats and using their knives…

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Latest Intelligence Sydney, Monday. Ferry Boat Wrecked

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1901 · page 2

When the Manly steamer Manly was making its last trip to Sydney last night, the machinery broke down. The vessel rapidly drifted towards the rocks…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1901 · page 2

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, he says, "I first experienced the miseries acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfied Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 3

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfied Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 July 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, be says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, be says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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