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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1902

15 stories in South Coast's papers

The Steamer

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1902 · page 2

Mr, Speer wired us last night:—Steamer leaving Sydney this week on Thursday instead of Wednesday,…

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Steamer

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1902 · page 2

The steamer Bega cleared Sydney Bends for Tathra yesterday afternoon at 3.13 p.m…

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Appalling Colliery Catastrophie. Terrible Explosion at Mount Kembla Mine. Workings Wrecked and Miners -Entombed. Both Shifts Below—250 Men. Thirty Bodies Recovered. 120 Escape by the Travelling Road. Others Rescued in an Insensible and Wounded Condition

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

A TERRIFIC explosion took place at the Mount Kembla Colliery shortly before 2 o’clock on Thursday afternoon. The report was distinctly heard in the town of…

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Launch of a Steamer at Narooma

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1902 · page 2

PROBABLY never since the white man took possession has there been seen such a large assemblage on the banks of the Wagonga River as on Wednesday last…

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Wreck of the Elingamile. [By Telegraph] Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1902 · page 2

The steamer Elingam[?] Sydney to Auckland, was totally [?] at the Three King’s Islands [?]day morning, during a d[?]…

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Wreck of the ELlNGAMITE

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 18 November 1902 · page 3

The steamer Elingamite of the Huddart Parker line, which left Sydney for Auckland on November 5 was totally wrecked at the Three Kings Islands last Sunday week. Four…

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Wreck of the Elingamite

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1902 · page 2

News [?] thought on Friday that H. M. S. [?] up the [?] [?] and who are [?] On Wednesday, the…

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The Wreck of the Elingamite. Horrible Sufferings

Southern Star · Wednesday 19 November 1902 · page 2

TERRIBLE were the sufferings of the 16 persons who escaped from the ilifated Elingamite on a raft, and who were picked up by the warship…

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That Frightful Wreck

Moruya Examiner · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 2

According to the published statements of passengers rescued from the week of the illfated Elingamite wrecked on the three Kings Islands…

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Shipwrecks

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 4

CAPTAIN HORSE writes to the “Argus” thus : —“I would respectfully suggest that all passenger vessels be compelled to carry for each boat and raft one…

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The Elingamite Wreck. a [?]Hetic Scene

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 4

[?] writes a correspondent [?] New Zealand Herald,” the [?] the wharf [?] the [?] The [?] were…

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Fire on a Steamer

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 2

When the I.S.N. Coy’s steamer Allowrie discharged cargo at Eden on Saturday morning a case was discovered which had been on fire during…

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Fire on a Steamer

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 4 December 1902 · page 2

When the I.S.N. Coy’s steamer Allowrie discharged cargo at Eden on Saturday morning a case was discovered which had been on fire during…

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Disaster at Wreck Bay

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 4

The barque Summer Cloud, 350 tons, from Melbourne to Newcastle with a cargo of salt and potatoes, ran ashore in Wreck Bay, about Biz miles south of Cape…

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The Kiama Blue Metal Trade, New Steamer

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 31 December 1902 · page 3

The directors of the Kiama Road Metal Company find a party, arrived at Kiama on Sunday afternoon in the new steamer Kiama, especially built by…

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