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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1914

16 stories in South Coast's papers

Launch of the Aberdeen- Australian Triple Screw Steamer “Euripides”

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 8

The “Euripides. a large triple screw steamer under co[?]trsetion by Harked and Wolf. Ltd, for Messrs George Thompson and Co., Ltd’s…

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Daucourt's Disaster. Aviator Wrecked on Taurus Tragedy of Fire and Air

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 3

The aviator Daucourt, who was wrecked in Asia Minor, on his way to Cairo, gave a garphic description of his experiences to "L'Op[?]nlon." On December 18 he sat down and…

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New Steamer Benandra

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 4

The tw[?]screw steainer Benandra, built at Sydney for the [?]llawarra and South Coast Co., and intended for the Shoalhaven and Mor[?]ya trade, made…

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Drink Habit Wrecks Homes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

More misery, Buffering, want, and poverty are caused by the drink habit than by any other cause. Yet drinking men and women are not to be censured, but to be helped…

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A Modern Liner. Launch of the Aberdeen-Australian triple Screw Steamer Euripides

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1914 · page 4

The "Eur[?]pidesy," built by Hai[?]nd & Wolff, Ltd, for Geo. Thompson & Co. Ltd's, passenger and cargo service between L[?]lon and Australia, is a…

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A Modern Liner. Launch of the Aberdeen-Australian triple Screw Steamer Euripides

The Nowra Leader · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 5

The "Euripides," built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., for Geo. Thompson & Co. Ltd's. passenger and cargo service between London and Australia, is a…

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Pilgrims Storm Ship. Light Fires on Steamer's Deck

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 6

Remarkable scenes on a British vessel described at Bristol when, at the instance of the Board of Trade, Captain George Arthur, master of the steamship Nith, was charged…

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The Wreck. Empress of Ireland. the First News. [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 8

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New Steamer for South Coast Trade

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 9

The s.s. "Bodalle" which is being built for the Illawarra and South Coast S. N. Co., Ltd., by Messrs. Morrison and Sinclair, of Balmain, is expected to be launched about…

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New Steamer for the South Coast Trade

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 5

The S. S. “Bodalla,” which is being built for the Illawarra and South Coast S. N. Co. Ltd. by Messrs Morrison & Sinclair of…

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Steamer Service for Berry

The Nowra Leader · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 7

On Tuesday Sight the business men of the town assembled at the "Commercial Hotel, with the object of urging upon the I'lawarra Steamship Co. the…

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Facts and Fancies. An Amphibious Steamer

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 July 1914 · page 10

The unsophisticated visitor to the lumber districts of Canada may occasionally see what is to him a very remarkable sight, a primitive-looking…

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Romance of a £250 Purchase. Fortune in a Wrecked Steamer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

Three months ago a tramp steamer named the Jane Rowe piled herself up on Bolt Tail, between Plymouth and Dartmouth. so successfully as to defy…

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Romance of a Life Purchase. [?] Steamer

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 6

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Suits for Shipwrecks

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 8

Since the tragedy of the Titanic hundreds of ideas and inventions have been brought before shipping companies and the Board of Trade…

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New Steamer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1914 · page 3

Another new steamer, the Bodalla, just completed to the order. of the Ill a warra and South Coast S.N. Co., made its first appearance on the Coast…

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