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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1912

12 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Titanic Wreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 April 1912 · page 6

Tae Oacpatchia, while on her voyage to New York, picked up several of the Titanic's lifeboats, in which were 866 passengers, mostly women…

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The Titanic Wreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 April 1912 · page 6

Enormous crowds in New York awaited the arrival of the Carpathia. A thousand relatives and friends of the Titanic's passengers, many of them…

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The Titanic Wreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 2

The wireless apparatus on the Californian was not working on the night of the disaster. Otherwise the vessel, which was only 20 miles…

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The Titanic Wreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 6

All the engineers of the steamer Titanic were drowned in the recent disaster. Thirty-two women were drowned from among the first and…

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The Titanic Wreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 May 1912 · page 2

It is officially reported that the Mount Temple went to the assistance of the Titanic, but arrived too late At the Senate inquiry one of the…

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The Titanic Wreck. British Inquiry

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 6

At the sitting of the special Court of Inquiry into the wreck of the steamer [?]tanic, the Seafarers' Union and the Imperial Merchant Service Guild were…

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Wreck of the Titanic

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2

At the British inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Titanic, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon said that his wife and her secretary refused to…

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Saved From Shipwreck

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 3

A vessel was once wrecked on the coast of Kent. The waves rolled furiously over the ship, upon which were eight men crying for help. No boat could, however,…

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Roosevelt the Wrecker Opposition to Mr Taft. Question of Ethics

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 3

Imagine Mr Balfour three or four years from now starting a campaign to oust Mr Bonar Law and reinstate himself in the leadership of the Unionist Party;…

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Battleship in Collision. Steamer Rammed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 3

In the early hours of yesterday morning information reached Dover of a serious collision which had taken place eastward of Dungeness between the…

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The Dover Breakwater. a Steamer Charges. Damages, Forty Thousand

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 4

the Swedish steamer [?]lads Ols[?]n. entering [?]over Harbor at midnight on Saturday, 21st October crashed broadside on into the southern [?]h…

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Steamer on a Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 October 1912 · page 2

A record in the annuls of local shipbuilding will be effected shortly in Sydney when a steamer will reverse the usual order of things and perform her…

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