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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

34 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Adrift on a Raft. Sufferings of a Shipwrecked Crew

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 3

The New York correspondent of the "Dally Mail" wrote on 17th October:— Of the crew of eight of the schooner Van Name and King, which was…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. Steamer Overdue

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Grave [?] are entertained lot the steamer Scot, which is considerably overdue at Ocean Island from Japan…

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New Steamer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

There was recently launched at Preston (England), by the Caledonian Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, the new passenger steamer…

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[By Cable]. London, Thursday. the Steamer Valencia a Total Wreck

The Bega Budget · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

The steamer Valencia, which went ashore at Cape Beale, Vancouver, has become a total wreck. The crow and passengers numbered…

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Mr Rooseveits Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 27to November:- At the close of his visit to New…

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A Wreck of the Sixties the Steamship London. Terrible Loss of Life

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 11

Just forty years ago on the 11th January the s.s. London, bonud from London to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay, after three or four days' battling…

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Another New Steamer

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 2

The Illawarra and South Coast S[?]ain Navigation Company is building in Scotland another new steamer for their trade. The new…

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Mr Roosevelt’s Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London “Daily Mall” wrote on 27th November.— At the close of his visit to New…

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On a Channel Steamer. Snapshots in the Strants

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 3

On the quay a string of ant like men are busy disemb welling the train of its mallhags and luggage. Form the stono bollards miniature…

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A Fortune from a Wreck

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 7
Also in Southern Star

It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds out of the wrecked…

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A Fortune From a Wreck

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 3

It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some…

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Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1906 · page 2

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 19th January:— The precipitancy of a workman in…

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Drowned in a Cave. Wreck of the Valencia. Women and Children

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

According to the London "Daily Mail? or 26lb January, a raft with nineteen sailors from the wreck of the steamer Valencia on the coast near Cape Beale,…

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Adrift on an Iceberg. Shipwrecked-crew in Camp

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 6

Sea captains have all strange experiences (says the Scattle "Post intelligencer"), but that of Captain Harry Turner,—port captain of the…

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Shot on the Bridge. Steamer Fired At. Mysterious Outrage

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 3

Particulars of a remarkable outrage in the North Sea were given at Leith on 1st February by C. Lilge, the first mate of the German steamer Gemma, 540 tons,…

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Drowned in a Cave. Wreck of the Valencia. Women and Children

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 6

According to the London “Daily Mail” of 26th January, a ra[?] with nineteen sailors from the wreck of the steamer on the cost near [?] Beale…

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Adrift on an Iceberg. Shipwrecked Crew in Camp

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 2

Sea aplanis[?] all strange experience says the Sea[?] Post intellige[?] but that of Captain Harry Turner, post captain of the…

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Fifty Years Under the Sea. Souvenir of the Sirius. First Atlantic Steamer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 6

The King has been graciously pleased to accept a souvenir of the s.s. Sirius, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. The souvenir is a circle of metal about…

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Wrecked Crew's Adventure Hardships in an Old Indian Fishing Camp

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 2

The details of a little drama (writes the London "Daily Mail" of 13th February) of the sea have reached Newport Monmouth…

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