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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909

1,892 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 95

A Steamer Barbound. Coraki

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

A heavy sea is running on the bar at the entrance to the river, and the steamer Brundah is barbound…

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New Ferry Steamer for Manly

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company, Ltd., was held the other clay. The report showed that after the steamers had been maintained and repaired there was a credit of…

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Wreck of the Narooma. Names of the Crew. Continued from page 6.)

Evening News · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

No further particulars with regard to the Narooma were available in Sydney this afternoon beyond the fact that she was breaking up. When our last edition went to Press the…

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Another Shipwreck

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

News was received in Sydney at midnight that a steamer of about 300 tons had been totally wrecked to the south of Cape Three Points, and…

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Loss of the Narooma Near Broken Bay Close to the Maitland Wreck. All Hands Safe. Vessel Breaking-up Fast. Swept by Big Seas

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 5

The coasting steamer Narooma ventured close inshore just north of Broken Bay yesterday, to load sleepers, and was last night driven ashore…

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Narooma a Total Wreck. Driven Ashore at Boat Harbor. All Hands Sayed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 13

The coasting steamer Narooma lies a hopeless wreck on the beach at Boat Harbor, a small open roadstead to the southward of Cape Three Points, and seven miles north from…

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Towed Into Brisbane. Steamer Falls of Orchy

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 15

A steamer passed Cape Moreton, inward bound, for Brisbane at 3 o'clock this morning with another steamer in tow from the south…

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Particulars of the Steamer. Vessel Insured for £2300

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 13

The Narooma was a well-known coaster employed principally in connection with the timber trade. She was owned by Mr. T. K. Evans, of Castlereagh-street, Redfern, and insured for…

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Wreck of the Narooma Position of the Vessel

Evening News · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 8

The coasting steamer Narooma is a total wreck on the beach at Boat Harbor, seven miles north from Broken Bay. When the vessel went ashore she continued bumping…

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Terrible Wreck on Irish Coast Six Drowned, While 63 Escape Up Perilous Precipice

The World's News · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 20

A terrible disaster occurred on the Irish coast recently, when during a dense fog and with a heavy sea running, the steamer Irada, a magnificent vessel of over 8000 tons, was…

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Clan Ranald Disaster. the Wreck Located. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 13

The steamer Governor Musgrave has located the wreck of the steamer Clan Ranald, about 400 yards from the shore, with three fathoms of water over her. The seas were too rough…

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Shipwrecked Asiatics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 14

The following letter has been sent to the Department of External Affairs by Senator Pulsford: Sydney, Feb. 4, 1909…

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Wreck of the Narooma

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

It was not until afer we went to press yesterday morning that the identity of the vessel reported i nour columns to be ashore near Cape Three…

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A Total Wreck. The Narooma Going to Pieces. What the Captain Says. Broken Bay

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 15

Captain Forbes was in command of the illfated Narooma. He reported this afternoon that the vessel's back is broken, and that she is a total wreck…

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Saved From the Clan Ranald Wreck

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 1

A group of lascars who were amongst the 20 saved from the Clan Ranald…

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Shipwrecked Asiatics and the Immigration Restrictions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 20

Senator Pulsford has sent the following letter to the Department of External Affairs: -- Sydney, February 4, 1990. The Hon. E. L. Batchelor, M.P…

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Disastrous Floods in Germany. Towns Under Water. Railways Blocked—bridges Wrecked. London. Saturday Morning. I

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1909 · page 7

Extraordinary floods have occurred in Saxony, Thuringla, Bavaria, and Tyrol, owing to the sudden melting of snow…

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The Week's Miscellany : Compilation of the News of the World. Clan Ranald Wrecked—40 Drowned

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1909 · page 12

One of the most terrible shipping disasters in the history of South Australia, resulting in [?] loss of life, occurred late on Sunday night in St. Vincent's Gulf. The big oversea…

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A Shipwrecked Crew. How the Narooma Was Driven Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 9

"Yes, we have had a very rough time," said Captain Forbes, of the ill-fated coasting steamer Narooma, on Saturday, "and had it not been for the kindness of Mr. Burnside and…

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Steamer Breaks Away

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 7

THURSDAY ISLAND, Saturday.--At About 11 o'clock on Friday night, the steamer Carpentaria broke away from the Jetty wharf through a mooring book to which the forward rope was…

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