Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1908

29 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

A Vessel Ashore. at Wreck Bay

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 4

The scow Hilda, with a load of timber from St. George's Basin consigned to Wollongong, drove ashore at Wreck Bay daring a southerly…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Suffragettes. Mob Wreck Windows. Women's Meeting Routed

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 3

Extraordinary scenes were witnessed of Cardiff on 11th May (says the "Daily Chronicle"), in connection with a Woman Suffragist demonstration. Mrs…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Steamer “Eden” First to Salute American Fleet

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 8

It was [?] and that the [?] of Eden Captain G. Wetter was the first British [?] vessel to [?] the American [?]…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. the Amazon Wrecked

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 5

The bisque Amazon has been wrecked in Swansea Bay, twenty of the crow were drowned. The desperate struggles of the drowning men were…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Sensational Wreck

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 5

A ship named Loch Finlay, from Port Pirie for Callao, South America, has been wrecked off the of West Coast, of Tasmania. The crew consisted of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. Wrecked Through Carelessness

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1908 · page 2

The court of inquiry into the loss of the ship Loch Finlas reports that it finds that there was gross carelessness on the part of the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Pleasure Steamer Sunk. Exciting Rescues. Lifeboat Capsized

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 3

The pleasure steamer Rhos Nelgr (162 tons), which left Liaodudno yesterday,(July 20) morning for Blackpool with sixty passengers, all visitors to…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Sensational Ballooning, Aeronauts Rescued at Sea Wrecked Aeronauts Rescued at Sea. Thirteen Racers Missing. Berlin, October 13

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 December 1908 · page 8

A thrilling struggle for life by balloonists in the middle of the North Sea is the latest adventure of the aeronauts who are taking…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

The Island of Wrecks. Monument of a Thousand Deaths. the Toll of the Sea

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1908 · page 3

King Island is vaguely known [?] Australians as being somewhere in the Straits, and to most, of [?] has a sad celebrity as the some of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →