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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1905

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Mr. Coghlan's Steamer Ticket

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 4

The fact that Mr. Coghlan on his official mission to England is travelling by a German steamship has raised a small storm of protest, the effect of which will be to…

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Phosphate Industry. Return of the Steamer Inger

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 3

The steamer Inger, under charter to the Pacific Phosphate Company, Ltd., which owns Ocean and Pleasant Islands, upon which enormous phosphate deposits exist, returned…

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Phosphates From Ocean Island. Return of the Steamer Inger

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 8

The steamer Inger. under charter to the Pacific Phosphates Company, arrived yesterday afternoon from Ocean Island with a cargo of phosphates. The Inger left Ocean Island on…

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South Australia. the Orizaba Wreck. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 5

The steamer Coolgardie, which arrived from Fremantle last evening, had on board all the dry cargo, amounting to about 800 tons, which was discharged from the wrecked steamer…

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Steamer Passenger Disappears

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 7

Charles Linna Braun, a passenger by the Euryalus from South Africa to Sydney, disappeared from the vessel at Port Melbourne last evening, and subsequently his clothes…

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Mishap to the Gulf of Venice. Ashore in Torres Straits

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 4

Messrs. W. and A. M'Arthur, Limited, the agents for the Gulf line, received a telegram from Townsville yesterday stating that the steamer Gulf of Venice had been ashore at Long…

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Cargo From the Wrecked Orizaba

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 4

Portion of the cargo saved from the wreck of the Orizaba is expected here on Sunday next by the steamer Coolgardie. A further shipment of cargo from the wreck is coming on by the…

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Shipping Casualties. Barque Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 11

FREMANTLE, Friday.--While passing through the Java Sea the steamer Gracchus, which arrived here yesterday, sighted a large barque ashore on Krimmon, Java Island. The barque…

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A Steamer Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 4

An accident happened at the Ryde wharl on Wednesday, as the Parramatta Ferries, Ltd.'s steamer, conveying the Parramatta Baptist Sunday School to their…

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The Steamer Albany

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 2

The steamer Albany, due from Brisbane this, morning, has [?] tow one of the barges recently purchased in Brisbane for Sydney. The Albany will undergo her annual…

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Shipping Casualties. Australian Trader Ashore. Steamer Pharsalia Full of Water

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 6

Nows was received by the Sydney underwriters on Saturday morning that the Australian trader Pharsalia had gone ashore near Manila, and that she was full of water. Fears are…

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The Loss Op the Schooner Sybil

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 6

The Queensland Government have decided to take no active part in the search for the missing schooner Sybil, on the grounds that they do not think there is any prospect of…

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A Steamer Stranded. the Pharsalia Full of Water

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 10

A cable message was received [?]Y the Sydney Marine Underwriters' and Salvage Association, Limited, on Saturday, notifying that the large tramp steamship Pharsalia [?]…

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The Orizaba Wreck. Piloting of Mail Steamers. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 7

At a meeting of the Fremantle Harbour Trust on Friday the matter of the wreck of the steamer Orizaba came under consideration. In answer to questions put by the…

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The Wreck of the Brier Holme. List of the Crew

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 6

A full list of the crow of the barque Brier Holme, wrecked off the Tasmanian coast, has been received by the last English mall, as follows:--John H. Rich, master, Maryport: Robert…

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Foundered at Sea. Loss of a Punt. Exciting Voyage of the Steamer Albany

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 3

The steamer Albany, running under the A.U.S.N. Company's flag, reached Port Jackson yesterday, after an exciting trip from Brisbane, and reported the loss of a punt which she had…

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A Five-masted Schooner in Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 6

'A' type of sailing vessel rarely soon in the waters of Port Jackson, known as a five-masted schooner, yesterday anchored in Athol Bight, and throughout the day was the object of…

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Theft From a Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 4

Edgar Hill, 18, a tip-slinger, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Smithers, S. M., with stealing from the cabin on board the steamer Commonwealth, then lying at the…

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Western Australia. Safety of the Schooner Alice. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 7

This afternoon the schooner Alice, which it was feared had been lost with all hands during the trip from Broome, sailed safely into Fremantle Harbour. She left Broome on…

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Voyage That Failed. Arrest on a Mailboat. "Bird-fancier" Brought Ashore

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 6

Just as the American mail steamer Sonoma was about to sail for 'Frisco at 1 p.m. yesterday some large cases of birds, 24 in number, which had been shipped for the…

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