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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905

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The Orizaba Wreck

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 2

There is now every hope of floating the stranded steamer Orizaba…

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The Steamer Pilbarra. Propeller Stripped

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 3

Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., Sydney, received a cable message from Noumea on Monday stating that the steamer Pacifique had arrived there…

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A Steamer Ashore

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

The B-llambi Coal Company's collier, Marjorie, ran ashore on the rocks at Croouil?.The crew were landed safely…

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A Steamer Wrecked. No Lives Lost. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 3

The Adelaide Company's steamer Albany, for some time past under charter to the A.U.S.N. Company as a cargo carrier, which left Sydney on Saturday…

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New South Wales. (By Telegraph.) Wreck of the Albany Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

The latest from this wreck of the steamer Albany states that the vessel has broken in halves. A STEAM COLLIER ASHORE…

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The Steamer Pilbarra. Safe at Port Vila

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 3

At a late hour on Monday night the A.U.S.N. Company received a cable message from Noumea notifying that the steamer Pilbarra had been towed to Port…

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This Wrecked Albany

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 2

The wreck of the steamer Albany was sold by auction to-day. The wreck realised £20, and her cargo £25…

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British Steamer Captured

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

A portion of Admiral Rozhdestvensky's fleet has fallen in with arid captured the British steamer Beatrice which was bound from Saigon in French Indo-China to…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. Wreck of a Torpedo-boat. London, May 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 2

During torpedo manocuvres at Bereshaven, Bautry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, the torpedo-boat destroyer Syren grounded on a reef, her back…

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British Gunboat Ashore

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 2

The British gunboat Thistle is ashore at Cape Finisters…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. British Gunboat Ashore. London, May 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 2

The British gunboat Thistle is ashore at Cape Finistare. ILLNESS OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN. Owing to illness Mr. Chamberlain…

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Japanese Flagship. Rumoured to Have Been Wrecked

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 2

It is rumonred in Russian circles in Paris that Japanese flagship, Mi[?] (13,200 tons, 18.6 knots, 935 men), silk as the result of an explosion. or…

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The War Wreck of a Japanese Flag- Ship Reported

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

A sensational report has come .from Paris with regard to the powerful battleship Mikess, the flagship of Admiral Togo. It is rumoured in Russian circles…

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Japs, Capture a French Steamer

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 2

The Japanese captured near Pescadores Islands a French steamer bound from Hongkong to Saigon with [?]oal believed to be intended for the…

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A Steamer Sunk

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 2

Admiral Rozhdestvensky sank an American steamer off Formosa on 21st inst. The crew were saved The name cargo and destination of the steamer are…

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A Reservoir Wrecked. Immense Loss of Life. London, June 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 2

The reservoir at Pinetown, which forms the water supply for Durban, the principal seaport city of Natal, has been wrecked by u hurricane…

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Channel Fleet Manoeuvres. Vessels in Collsion. Wreck of a Merchantman. London, June 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 2

During the manoeuvres of the Channel Fleet, which are now in progress, the battle-ship Triumph and Swiftsure collided in a fog, and both were badly…

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Cable News. Reservoir Wrecked. Over 500 People Drowned. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 2

The water reservoir at Pinetown. Natal, has been wrecked by a hurricane. Five hundred Indians and 30 Europeans were drowned in the floods which…

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Sensational Russian Outrage. British Steamer Captured and Sunk. London, June 14

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 2

News has been received that the Russian cruiser Dnieper captured and sunk the British steamer St. Kilda, while on a voyage from Hong Kong…

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Wreckage

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

A quantity of wreckage has been sighted in the Atlantic, apparently from the missing Hamburg-American liner Castlia. The liner carried a…

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