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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

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A Steamer Ablaze. Mediterranean Disaster. Over 120 Lives Lost. London, Nov. 26

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 2

A terrible marine disaster, attended with heavy loss of life and with horrifying circumstances, occurred yesterday off Malta…

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Gale in the West Several Wrecks. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 7

A schooner and several luggers were wrecked in a gale near Broome…

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Dramatic Sea Story. Mystery of Six Men on Floating Wreckage. London, Oct. 28

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 3

The following dramaric story of the sea from the Merchant Service Guild, given in an extract from the log of the steamer Tiverton, is published:—…

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Foundered at Sea

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 2

A Turkish steamer, bound stantinople to Sevnstoped foundered during a storm, and the crew and 50 passengers were drowned…

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Wreck at Morgan's Beach the Trawler Ellen Lost. All Hands Saved. Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 2

The steam trawler, Ellen, with the Scottish fishermen on board, which left Glenelg (S.A.) last Thursday on her initial fishing trip down the gulf…

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Faction Fight. Disturbance on Mail Steamer an Exciting Scene. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 2

A faction fight occurred on the mail steamer Mongolia to-day, between about 50 colored members of the crew. The police on arrival had…

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Wreck of a Scow. Three Lives Lost. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 2

A cable from New Zealand states that the scow Kia-Ora, bound from Ugungura to Auckland with a cargo of logs was wrecked off Kawau last…

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A Scow Wrecked. Three of Crew Crowned Auckland

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 3

The cow Kia-Ora bound from Nganhira to Auckland with a cargo of dogs was wrecked off Kawan last night…

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Shipping Disaster. Steamer Gradan Wrecked. Six Lives Lost. Survivors' Terrible Experience. London, Dec. 23

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1908 · page 2

The steamer Gradon, with a cargo of 22,008 bales of cotton, from Galveston to Liverpool, was totally wrecked at Mizzenhead, Cork, in a fog and…

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Wrecked. Steamer Strikes Mizzen Head. Captain and Four of Crew Drowned. Heavy Losses Involved. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 December 1908 · page 5

The steamer Grade, with 22,000 bales of cotton an board, bound from Galreston, Texas, for Liverpool has been totally wrecked on the Mitten…

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Wrecked

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 December 1908 · page 2

The steamer Irade, 8000 tone, loaded with cotton from America to Liverpool, has been wrecked off the Irish coast. Five, including the captain…

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Togday's Cablegrams Wreck. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 December 1908 · page 2

The steamer Irada, with a cargo of cotton from Galviston to Liverpool, was totally wrecked on the Mizen Head, Ireland. The steamer ran…

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Ferry Boat Wrecked. Waterlodged at Sea. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 2

A new ferry-boat, named the Fred Davies, intended to ply between Williamstown and Melbourne, has been wrecked near the Woolli-Woolli River…

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Latest News. Over a Hundred Thousand Deaths. Many Towns Destroyed. Fishing Boats and Steamers Wrecked. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 2

Details that are arriving hourly by wireless telegraphy show that the severity of the catastrophe is unprecedented…

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