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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905

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British Steamer Searched

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 July 1905 · page 2

The destroyer Smetlivy at Odessa detained and searched the British steamer Cranley, suspecting that revolutionists were aboard. No suspected persons…

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Latest News. Received at 1 A.M. Kniaz Potemkine's Operations Loots a Cattle Steamer. Requisitions Supplies. Vessel Reported to Be Blown Up. London, July 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 2

It is reported that the Kniaz Potemkine captured and looted a cattle steamer of Theodosia, in the Crimea. The mutineers then requisitioned…

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Ten Minutes' Havoc. Tornado's Devastation. Theatre and Churches Wrecked

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1905 · page 6

From New York, on 9th May, the cor-respondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:- Twentyfour persons were killed…

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Steamer at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 2

What he, ye land-lubbers; It is many years since a river steamer arrived in Wagga, so that when the s.s. "Wagga Wagga" came alongside the…

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The Port of Wagga. Arrival of a Steamer. First for 22 YEARS

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 5

It is about twenty-two years since the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga witnessed the arrival of a fairly large steamer. But that important event…

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A Captured British Steamer Fired and Abandoned. Received at 1 A.M. LONDON, July 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 2

A licutenant and thirteen marines belonging to the Russian warship Kniaz Suvaroff, who landed from a boat at Edunca Point, Saghalion, informed the…

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Arrival of a Steamer at Wagg First for 22 YEARS

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 4

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A Barque Wrecked

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

During a fog the trawler Ayre collided off Holyhead with the barque Bonafide. The latter sank, but the crew was picked up by the Ayre…

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German Steamer Seized

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

The Japanese have seized the German steamer Lydie near the Loo-choo Islands…

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Jack Ketch Cheated

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 2

The Executive Council have commuted the death sentence on Jane Davis, for attempted murder by poison of a kanaka at Maclean, to…

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Received at 1 A.M. Disturbances in Riga. Factories Wrecked. London, August 11

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1905 · page 2

Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that several factories in Riga have been wrecked by rioters. Sir Gifford Hardinge, the British…

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Echo of a Great Disaster. Wreck of the Birkenhead

The Temora Star · Saturday 26 August 1905 · page 3

Yesterday, June 21, there was unveiled in the Parish Church of Beckingham, Notts, a memorial to the late Mrs Marian Parkinson, one of the last survivors of…

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Marine Disasters. Foundered in a Storm. London, Aug. 29

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1905 · page 2

Advices from Jacksonville, Florida, announce the loss of the iron screw steamship Peconic, 1,853 tons, of New York. She was caught in a terrible…

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Arrival of Another Steamer

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1905 · page 2

Another steamer engaged in the timber trade on the Murrumbidgee arrived in Wagga on Tuesday, afternoon. The vessel, which is owned by…

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A Wreck at Newcastle

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

The schooner, Jones Brothers, foundered off the end of the southern breakwater at Newcastle early this morning, during a heavy gale. A…

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The Steamer "Wagga Wagga."

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 2

The steamer "Wagga Wagga" arrived here on Wednesday, which made the second trip for the season. Naturally the arrival did not create the flutter…

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Steamer Breaks in Two. Scene on the Mersey

The Temora Star · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 3

While the Liverpool steamer Benshaw was proceeding up the Mersey on Saturday morning, June 10th, bound for Garsston with a cargo of about 3000 tons of…

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The Jones Brothers Wreck Foundered Vessel Located. Bodies Not Yet Found

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 4

The gale which raged in Newcastle Bight during the past couple of days has now abated, a wire of Friday says, but there is still a heavy surge…

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After the Wreck

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 3

The bodied of three of the crew of the wrecked schooner Jones Brothers have been washed ashore at Newcastle…

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Revolutionaries' Steamer Wrecked. Cargo of War Munitions

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 September 1905 · page 2

A steamer, whose name was painted out, stranded or exploded on an island near Ja[?]bstad, on the River Duna, in the Baltic provinces. The crew…

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