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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898

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The Latest. an American Cruiser Ashore at Puerto Rico. American Opposition to Relinquishing Cuba. the Spanish King Ill. London, Aug. 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 2

The United States cruiser Columbia has gone ashore at Ponce, on the south coast of the island of Puerto Rico. The feeling is growing in the Uuited States…

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Tasmania. a Schooner Ashore. at Macquarie Heads. Hobart

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 5

The pilot at Macqurie Heads reports that the schooner Annie, M'Dougal is ashore there, and that the life-boat is unable to get near. The…

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Victoria. a Ketch Wrecked. Two Lives Lost. Melbourne, Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 3

The ketch Secret has been wrecked at the Lakes entrance, and it is believed that the crew, numbering two, have been drowned…

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Wreck in Bass' Strait. Eleven Persons Drowned. Two Surivors. a Terrible Experience. [By Telegraph.] Launceston

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 2

THE barquentine C. C. Funk, 540 tons, was wrecked on Flinders Island, Bass' Strait, on June 30. Later particulars show that the vessel encountered heavy weather, and…

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Tasmania. a Shipwreck. an American Barquentine. Loss of Life. Statement by One of the Crew. Launceston

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 2

News has been received from Georgetown that the Straits Island mail ketch Linda sent a message ashore with the news that 10 or 12 days ago…

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Cable News. a French Warship Wrecked by a Tidal Wave Off the Madagascar Coast. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 2

The French cruiser La Perouse, cruising in the vicinity of Madagascar, wag caught in a tidal wave, and became a total wreck…

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Collision in the Harbor. a Steamer Sunk. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 3

Daring the dense fog which prevailed this morning, the steamer Narrabeen collided with the Government steamer Kate, outward bound…

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Intercolonial. Sydney. Monday. Collision in Sydney Harbor.—a Manly Steamer and a Government [?] Narrow Escape

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 2

During a dense fog which enveloped the harbor this morning a collision occurred between the steamer Nurrabeen, inward bound from Manly, and the Government…

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A Shipwreck. Fogs in the Channel. a Steamer and Schooner Collide. Ten Lives Lost. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 August 1898 · page 2

Dense fogs have been prevailing in the English Channel during the last few days, during which there have been many collisions, and several…

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A Disastrous Wreck. Forty Lives Lost. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 August 1898 · page 2

The Stickeen, engaged in the trade to Alaska, is reported from that place to have beeu wrecked. Beyond the fact that 40 men were drowned no…

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Heavy Weather at Sea. a Steamer Breaks Up. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

The heavy weather which has prevailed in the sea around Newcastle has caused the Huddart, Parker liner Wendouree to break up…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. a Steamer Lost. All Hands Saved. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

News from New Britain reports the loss of the steamer Johan Alberic. All hands on board were saved…

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Loss of the Rockview. Wrecked Off the Chilian Coast. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 2

News has just been received of the loss of the ship Rockview, which was wrecked off the Chilian coast…

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THE P. & O. Steamer China Floated. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

The P. & O, mail steamer China, which went Ashore on the island of Perim, in the Red Sea, in March last, has been successfully floated…

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Through Reuter's Agency. an Italian Factory Wrecked at Trieste. the Kaiser on Anarchists. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

News from Trieste reports that 300 Slavonians forced an entrance into an Italian factory and wrecked the whole of the machinery. Eleven of the…

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Attempted Thain Wrecking. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

An attempt was made to wreck the London and South-western mail to-day. An accident was narrowly averted by the guard observing the obstruction…

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A Ketch Ashore. All Hands Saved. Sydney, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 September 1898 · page 3

The ketch Mary Ad kins has gone ashore at Crowdy Heads, and is in a sinking condition. All hands have been saved…

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An Old Steamer

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 3

The oldest steamer In the world is the Industry, which was built In 1814, and piled for about sixty years on the Clyde, and was finally laid up where she now…

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Steamer and Schooner Collision. Marine Board Inquiry. Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 October 1898 · page 2

The local Marine board to-day held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the collision between the steamer Vltava and the schooner Bessie Maud. The captain of…

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A Shipwreck. an Atlantic Liner Ashore. 86 Persons Drowned. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 October 1898 · page 2

When the steamer Mobegan, belonging to the New London Steamboat Co., which was on her return journey to New York, was off the Cornish coast the machinery broke down…

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