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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

1,607 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 81

French Mail Steamer

Evening News · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 2

The M.M. Company's ateamer Ville de la Clotat, carrying malls dated London January 20, and Marseilles one day later, left Colombo at 11 a.m. on February 7, She is due at Fremantle…

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Bombs in Russia. Leading Anarchists Arrested. Carrying Infernal Machines. Store Wrecked at Odessa

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The St. Petersburg police have arrested 20 leading anarchists. They had 10 bombs in their possession. A store of bombs exploded in a house at…

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Union Company's Steamer Movements

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

Monowai leaves Wellington to-day for Sydney. Kamona left Melbourne on Thursday for Newcastle. Maheno arrived at Melbourne last evening, and…

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The Turbine Steamer Maheno

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 12

The Union S.S. Company's new turbine steamer Maheno will make her first run to Vancouver on April 16, and her second on July 9. The Maheno holds the record for the fastest passage ever made by any vessel between…

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The White Star Steamer Tropic

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 6

The White Star Line cargo steamer Tropic leaves Dalgety's Wharf, Miller's Point, to-day, for London and Liverpool, via Melbourne. At Sydney the cargo loaded includes 2300 bales wool,…

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The Motoring World. Afloat and Ashore. Cars. 128 Miles an Hour-- Police Traps at St. Kilda

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 3

One hundred and twenty-eight miles an [?]ur! Whew! Must make our motorists feel like putting their 25 miles an hour cars on the shelf. What a nerve the chauffeur of…

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Wreck of the Hilda. Board of Trades Decision Captain Gregory and Officers Exonerated. London, Friday, 2.30 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 1

The Board of Trade has exonerated the captain and officers of the steamer Hilda. [On November 20 last our London correspondent cabled: "Off the coast of Brittany,…

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General Cables. Hilda Wreck. Officers Exonerated

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.—A Board of Trade inquiry has exonerated the captain and officers of the Hilda. [The steamer Hilda, belonging to the…

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Pilot Steamer Hampered

Evening News · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 5

The French mail steamer Australian arrived at Sydney on Saturday afternoon from Noumea, and was taken into quarantine to complete five days from New Caledonia. The mail steamer…

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Norfolk Island. Arrival of the Cable Steamer. Norfolk Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 8

The cable steamer Iris arrived from Auckland at noon on Saturday, and sails for Sydney at noon on Monday. The steamer shipped 24 Norfolk Islanders as a crew…

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Captain Ward. of the Steamer Manly. Charged at the Quarter Sessions

The Australian Star · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 4

There was a somewhat unexpected development this morning in connection with the harbour collision in which Frederick Thomas Hemming and his wife lost their lives on…

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Wreck of the Hilda. Captain and Officers Exonerated. London, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 7

The Board of Trade inquiry into the wreck of the London and South-western Railway Company's steamer Hilda. 848 tons, on November 19 last, at Cezimbra,…

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Tavern Wrecked by a Bomb. People Killed and Rounded. London, Sunday, 2.10 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 1

A bomb thrown from a street of a suburb of St. Petersburg wrecked a tavern. Two people were killed. Seventeen others were wounded…

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Disabled Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 5

While the steamer Empire, of the E. and A. line, was in Eastern waters, she fell in with a large steamer in distress. A course was shaped for the vessel, and she was found to be the…

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Japanese Budget Passed. Defence Estimates Reduced. Australian Steamer Subsidy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Japanese House of, Representatives has passed the Budget, the Government's only concession being the reduction of the Defence…

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Ship Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The Marine Department received a telegram this afternoon from the Harbor Master at Port Wakefield, stating that the ship County of Kinross was ashore…

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Overdue Steamer

The Australian Star · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 4

The steamship Scott, now many weeks overdue at Ocean Island from Hongkong, has bounded up on the reinsurance market to a very high figure, and when the last mail left…

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South Australia. a Barque Ashore. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 7

The four-masted barque County of Kinross went ashore yesterday at M'Lachlan's Beach, six miles north of Ardressan, on a sand and mud bottom. The weather was calm She…

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Adelaide Company's New Steamer[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 8

Advices just to hand state that the new steames ordered in May last by the Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited, will be launched from Newcastle-onTyne in April. She is intended for the trade between…

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Steamer Passengers and the Customs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 6

When, as the result of a complaint by a senator, the Minister for Customs drew the attention of the P. and O. Company's London office to a notice posted on a mall steamar…

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