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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
221 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 12
Fuller investigation into the cause and effect of the explosion at the Wagga sewerage works on Monday afternoon shows that gas which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ketch Premier is ashore at North Head, Nambucca. There is no hope of salvage and the vessel is expected to break up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bodies of two members of a Zeppelin crew have been washed ashore on the coast of Denmark…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many steamers arriving from British harbors report that the sea is strewn for miles with evidence of the fearful battle. The wreckage is thick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of Lieutenant-Colonel O. A. Fitzgerald, Military-Secretary, who was on the ill-fated cruiser Hampshire, has been washed ashore on the Orkney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Copenhagen steamer Vanda reports passing the wreck of a gigantic worship in the North Ssea. It could not determine its nationality…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"A raft, containing twelve survivors of the cruiser Hampshire—which was lost off the Orkney Islands on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Copenhagen announces that the steamer N. G. Petersen sailed for four hours in the North Sea through countless lifebelts and bits of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is officially stated that a raft containing 12 survivors of the Hampshire has been washed ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A bomb was discovered in a grain steamer which has arrived in England from America. It is believed to have been placed there by one of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Quarter Sessions to-day Henri Berthold was charged with having maliciously wounded Robert Purdie, the master of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sea tragedy, invoking great loss of life, occurred off Port San Luis, about 18 miles south of San Francisco on May 10-last. The steamer Roanoke,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American steamer Bean, 4507 tons, struck a reef on the Californian coast at midnight. The passengers took to the boats, but were unable to land on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Makambo passed a mast with a sail attached ten miles northeast of the South Head light-house yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Copenhagen message announces that British submarines have sunk the German steamer Ens in the Cattegat. The crew landed by a Swedish patrol boat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Norwegian steamer Aquila was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. There were no casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tell the story very gently, sad, subdued, and full of woe; To the mourners of those loved ones, gone where all must some day go…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Austrian submarine ineffectually chased the Norwegian steamer Reuma or eleven hours in the Mediterranean. A German submarine suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Swedish steamer Svanin has been attacked, and was on fire off Gothenburg…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian destroyers captured the German steamer Hermonthis in the Baltic. The vessel had on board a cargo of tar worth £100,000…
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