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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923

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Steamer Beached. Strikes Floating Wreckage Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1923 · page 4

The steamer Coramba struck some object supposed to he floating wreekage, off Moorna Point about one a. m. The shock was not service but the…

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Arresting a Steamer Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 9 January 1923 · page 1

The Norwegian steamer Yarra has been arrested by order of the Deputy Marshal of the High Court a writ claiming £1200 damages having been…

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A Steamer Arrested. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1923 · page 4

The Norwegian steamer Yarra was arrested by order of the Deputy Marshal of the High Court of Australia. A writ claiming £12,000 for damages…

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Steamer in Distress. Well Known Australian Cargo Vessel SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 January 1923 · page 1

News was received in Sydney, that the steamer Kaikoura, a well-known cargo vessel in Australian ports, had put into Colon, at the…

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Steamer Beached. Uncertainty As to Crew. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 2

The steamer Otus, bound for the Clarence River, sprang a leak off Cape Hawke and was beached near the signal station at 6.50 tonight. A telegram…

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The Otus Wreck Crew All Saved Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 2

The crew of the river steamer Otus, which sprung a leak on the voyage from, Sydney to the Calrence River and was beached off Forster,…

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Steamer Bodalla Safe. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 1

Apparently little the worse for her experience the steamer Bodalla which was beached at Ulladulla returned to Sydney to-day. The vessel…

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Turbulent Ireland. Wrecking the Railways. More Executions. LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 2

Merchants and distributors in Dublin view the situation in Ireland with alarm, holding that the attack on the Provisional Government inaugurated…

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Steamer Afire. Canadian Pioneer. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 February 1923 · page 1

An Auckland message states that a fire is raging aboard the steamer, Canadian Pioneer, which was to have completed the loading of her…

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Echo of the War. Message to a Newspaper. That Big steamer! SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 February 1923 · page 1

This morning a paper received a missive, written on a piece of cardboard, as follows: "England could not build such a ship. The liner…

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Lifeboat Propulsion

The Daily Express · Saturday 3 February 1923 · page 2

Among the many recent inventions concerned with life saving at sea, one of the most interesting is a new form of mechanism for…

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A Magnificent Lifeboat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1923 · page 4

Not content with the progress already and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in whoso Wands the upkeep of lifeboats lies, are now building a boat…

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Crew Mauled Ashore. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1923 · page 1

During the stay of the Union Company's steamer Wait[?] at Newcastle the crew came in for a [?] handling from a Newcastle push…

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Washed Ashore Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 8 February 1923 · page 1

The body of a man about 55 yean of age was washed ashore at Bronte to-day. There is reason to believe that the man was dead before…

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Collision at Sea. Steamer and Schooner

The Daily Express · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 1

The passenger liner, Wilhelmina collided with the steam schooner Sierra, off San Francisco lighthouse. Wireless reports state that the…

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Home by German Steamer. Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 2

There are several Englishmen employed aboard a German steamer en route to Europe. These men said they were taking the only possible means…

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A Great Rescue. Wreck Off the Lizard. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 2

The German five-masted barque, Adolf Vinnen, was wrecked in a gale off the Lizard on her maiden voyage from Bremen to Barry. The…

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Mountainous Seas a Wreck at the Lizard London, February 10

The Daily Express · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 4

While on lts maiden Voyage, the barque Barry, was wrecked at The Lizard and the lifeboat was enable to reach he Mountainous seas almost…

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Fights on a Steamer. Moreton Bay Passengers' Complaint. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 2

Passengers by the steamer Moreton Bay, which readied Sydney this morning from London, stated that scarcely a day elapsed without a…

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Driven Ashore. London, February 13

The Daily Express · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 2

A destroyed while being towed to Wear for breaking up, broke away from her tuge and was driven a[?]born at Wh[?]burn…

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