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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917

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Liverpool Liner Wrecked. Fourteen Lives Lost. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

The Liverpool liner Alondra struck tire rocks on the Baltimore coast. Fourteen were drowned. The survivors underwent terrible…

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Spanish Steamer Shelled

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

A Madrid correspondent states the French mail steamer Bille d'Havre has wirelessed to Spanish stations that she was being shelled…

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Steamer Mata[?] Wrecked Ex San Francisco for Auckland. No Hopes of Refloating Auckland, N.Z.

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

Details of the loss of the Union Company's steamer Maital at Raraonga in the Cook Islands, was received to-day…

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American Cruiser Ashore. Portion of Crew Remover Washington

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

The cruiser Milwa[?]kee went ashore in California while attempting to salvage a submarine. Three hundred of the crew were removed in the raging…

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Belgian Steamer Stopped Off West Coast of Ireland. Allowed to Proceed

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

The Belgian steamer Samland, on arriving at New York, reported that she had been halted by a German raider named the Moldavia, 400 miles…

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Steamer Wrecked. Cargo of Australian Meat and Produce. Melboubne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 7

News of the sinking of the steamer Governor Nicholson was announced in Melbourne to-day. The vessel left Townsville at the end of November and…

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Japanese Steamer Sunk

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

The Japanese steamer, Kisagata Maru (2568 tons) was sunk…

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War on the Sea. North Sea Fight. Disabled German Vessel. Crew's Terrible Ordeal. Dead Bodies Amidst the Wreckage. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Amsterdam boarded the V69, which is standing disordered. The dirty, blood-smeared deck gives a good…

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Spanish Steamer Sunk

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 4

The Spanish steamer Parahyr (2537 tons) was sunk. The crew were rescued…

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Steamer Sunk. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 5

The Spanish steamer Parahyr 2537 tons, has been sunk. The crew were rescued…

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Empire War Council. Mr. Hughes to Go. by Next Available Steamer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 3

The "Sun" to-day says it has good authority for stating that Mr. Hughes expects to sail for London early in February, and that he is recasting all…

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Schooner Wrecked. All Hands Saved Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 4

A four-masted schooner ran ashore at Scrapers Cape, Kangaroo Island (S.A.), yesterday afternoon. Assistance was immediately sent, but the…

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Attempt to Wreck Steamer's Engines

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 2

The Adriatic sailed from New York for Europe with 44 passengers, cheering America. An attempt was made to wreck…

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Steamer Scuttled

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 4

The German steamer Livenef, which has been interned iu Charleston Harbor since the war started, is slowly sinking, having been scuttled…

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"Concession" to Holland. Dutch Steamer Sunk. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 2

The "Lokal Anzeiger" pleads that Germany first made a considerable concession to Holland. The German blocks ade decision completely stopped…

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Overdue Steamer Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 February 1917 · page 4

The Seal Rocks lighthouse-keeper reports the Interstate steamer Buninyong, now considerably overdue, pass ed about 8 o'clock, and appeared…

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Sailor's Remarkable Ex-perience. Shipwrecked Eight Times. Round the World Without Touching Land

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1917 · page 7

Jorgen Jorgenson, a Norweginn sailor left the port of Tromsoe on April a, 1902. He returned in January, 1905. Beteen these two dates…

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Romance of a Wreck

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 6

What may probably be regarded as the individual shipping investment which has yielded the largest profit during the war has just come to the know…

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British Steamer Sunk

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1917 · page 2

The British steamer Foreland (1960 tons) was sunk…

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American Schooner Sunk. Crew Saved. Washington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1917 · page 2

The State Department learns that the American schooner Lyman Law, with an American crew of nine, was submarined in the Mediterranean…

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