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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919

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Scanty News. Log Washed Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1919 · page 2

News of the disaster is scanty. Captain Howell's log was washed ashore. Lloyd's agents are going to investigate. It is unknown whether there is…

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How to Avoid a Wreck

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 16 December 1919 · page 4

A tiny leak in a big ship can easily be stopped if taken in time, but, if disregarded, it will overcome the mightiest vessel and drag…

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Disaster to How[?] His Aeroplane Wreck[?] Off Corfu. London, Dec [?]

The Daily Express · Tuesday 16 December 1919 · page 1

Disaster has Overtaken another[?] the participants in the England[?] Australia flight. Cable advices [?] that Captain Howell’s [?]erop[?]…

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Toll of the Sea. American Steamer Adrift. Vancouver, Dec. 15

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 December 1919 · page 1

New York advisee the American steamer Davidson County is adrift In the Azores. The fate of the crew is unknown…

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Steamer Wrecked. Bxba8teb in the Phh1ipfine8

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 December 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Saigon correspondent says that the British steamer Lienshing, bound from Hong Kong to saigon, is ashore at Paraceils…

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Foundered in Mid-ocean British Steamer Lost Forty-three Perish Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1919 · page 2

The captain, first mate, fourth engineer wireless operator and 39 of the crew of the British steamer Manxman were drowned when the ship…

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Fight on Steamer. Two Men Wounded. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 December 1919 · page 4

A fight between firemen and grousers on the steamer Commonwealth last night resulted in a fireman named Billows being slashed on the arm with a…

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Dutch Steamer Lost. Entire Crew Drowned. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1919 · page 2

The Dutch steamer Anton van Driel has been lost off the Newfoundland coast. The entire crew of fifty were drowned…

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