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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1922

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Schooner Aground Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 2 January 1922 · page 3

Bound from Gray’s Harbor to Sydney with a cargo of timber, the American four-masted schooner Repeat has been forced to put into Honolulu. The…

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Hundred Ton Lighter Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 2

A hundred ton lighter is ashore at Botany Bay as a result of to-day's storm…

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Steamer Capsizes. Seven Drowned, Five Missing. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 2

Seven were drowned and five are missing, owing to the capsizing of the German steamer Fehmarn, of 167 tons, in a North Sea gale on Saturday. The…

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700 Immigrants. on Steamer Moreton Bay. Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 January 1922 · page 1

The steamer Moreton Bay reached Fremantle to-day with 700 unmigrants for Australia…

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The Plague Mil Steamer Had a Case Held-Up in Sydney SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 January 1922 · page 1

A case of bubonic plague having been lauded from the vessel at Thursday Island, the Japanese mail steamer, Tango Mars, which arrived this morning, was…

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Steamer Aground

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 5

The Steamer Cooma grounded on Breaksea Spit, Wide Bay, Queensland yesterday. 134 passengers were transferred to the steamer Camita, which is…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Thursday Steamer Abandoned

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 5

The Steamer Imaho Maru, 3839 tons has been abandoned at Rosel Island while enrout to Australia…

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Tale of the Sea. Peril and Heroism. German Steamer Afire in Blizzard. LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 2

A Lowestoft steam trawler brought in to survivers of the German steamer Vesta, whose cargo of arsenic caught fire and exploded, destroying…

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The Foundered Ship Inquiry Dispensed With Crew Coming to Australia AUCKLAND

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 January 1922 · page 1

No public inquiry will be held into the disaster of the Helen B. Sterling. The statements of the captain and mate will he taken by the American…

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Rescue at Sea the Helen B Sterling Story of the Wreck. Auckland, Jan, 24

The Daily Express · Thursday 26 January 1922 · page 1

The Australian cruiser Melbourne arrived at Auckland to-night with the passengers and crow of the American schooner Helen D. Sterling…

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The Recent Wreck Auckland, Jan 26

The Daily Express · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 1

There will not be any public [?] the late of the schooner Helen B Sterling. The statements of the captain and…

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Picture Theatre Wrecked Snow Causes Collapse 25 Killed VANCOUVER

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 January 1922 · page 1

Hundreds were entombed in the ruins when the roof of Nickerbucker cinema collapsed under the weight of snow, only the outside walls remaining…

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Bad Weather at Sea Schooner in Trouble. Auckland. Jan 30

The Daily Express · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 2

The Malahant an auxiliary five mosted schooner, 1, 190 tons, which left Newcastle on January 13 for Hawall put into Auckland to-day disabled…

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The Karitane Wreck Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 2

The Marine Court to-day [?] its inquiry into the loss of the steamer Karitane on Deal Island, while on [?] voyage from Devonport (Tas.) to…

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Schooner Ashore Well[?]don (N.z.), Feb. 17

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 1

The three-masted schooner Val[?] which left Grafton (N.S.W.) on January 21. with a cargo of hard [?] reported to be…

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Whisky for America British Schooner’s Cargo Arrested by Aeroplanes. New York, Feb. 21

The Daily Express · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 1

At Miami, eleven aeroplanes, operating as a prohibition enforcements squadron, seized the British schooner Annabelle at the Point of machine…

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Stranded Steamer Officers to Defend Certificate. Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 1

An inquiry was concluded to-day into the grounding of the streamer Cooma at Breakses Spit, north of Brisbane, on January 11…

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Found Dead on a Steamer Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 1

William Mally, 60, who was employed on the steamer Karoola, was found dead at the bottom of the hold this morning, with his skull…

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New Steamer. London, March 1[?]

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 1

The Commonwealth [?] 6,350 tons, [?] launch[?]…

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How to Avoid a Wreck

The Daily Express · Monday 20 March 1922 · 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 her beneath…

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