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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1909

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Latest Mail News Suffragists Wreck Meeting. Women Use Dog Whips on Stewards. Unprecedented Violence. London, December 10

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 12

Such scenes of disorder and violence as those that marked the meeting of the Women's Liberal Association which Mr. Lloyd-George tried to address on…

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The Karnak Refloated. Steamer Practically Undamaged

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The steamer Karuah was hauled off Stockton Beach to-day, and came on under her own steam to Newcastle. She was shortly afterwards ordered on to…

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Liberia and Liberty. German Steamer Fired On

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Saturday. --Advices from French West Africa state that the Liberian Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British Naval Reserve officer, fired on…

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German Steamer Fired Upon. Smuggling in Liberia. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 7

Advices from French West Africa state that the Libertan Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British naval reserve officer, fired on a steamer belonging to the…

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Big Haul of Opium. Floating Off North Head. Found by the Pilot Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 7

Luck is occasionally against the Ingenious and tricky Celestial. This was the case on Saturday afternoon, when owing to some hitch in arrangements 400 tins of opium destined for…

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Wreck of the Mildura

The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 1

Captain Jorgenson, who has charge of the salvage operations upon the wrecked steamer Mildura on the Western Australian coast, still has great hopes of saving the…

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The Steamer Era Ashore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 12

News received from Port Pirie on 13th inst. states that the steam which has a full cargo of coal for Howard Smith and Company, is…

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The Steamer Karuah Ashore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 12

The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co.'s new steamer Karuah went ashore on Stockton Beach about 3 o'clock Wed­nesday morning, about a mile north of…

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Steamer Fidra Wrecked. Seventeen Lives Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--The British steamer Fidra, carrying a cargo of coal, has been wrecked off the island of Antrum, off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein(Prussia)…

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Steamer Hillmeads Aground

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8

MORUYA, Monday.--The steamer Hillmeads arrived at the wharf on Friday, having been delayed six hours through the vessel running on a sand bank, just after entering the river. She…

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The Stranded Steamer Rosedale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 12

The steamer Noorebar, of the North Coast Company's fleet, which left Sydney on Tuesday for Trial Bay with all the appliances requisite for salvage,…

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Steamer Fidra Wrecked. All Hands Lost. London, Jan. l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 7

The British steamer Fidra, 1218 tons, laden with coal, was wrecked on Amrum Island, off the west coast of SchleswigHolstein. The crew, numbering 17,…

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Rescued From Stockton Beach. Steamer Karuah Refloated. Safe Arrival at Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 7

After being ashore for five days the coasting steamer Karuah was rescued from her dangerous position among the breakers and quicksands at Stockton Beach, near Newcastle, yesterday…

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New Mail Steamer Morea. Public Inspection Arranged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 9

In response to numerous requests for permission to visit the new mammoth mail steamer Morea, now on her maiden visit to Sydney, the superintendent of the P. and O…

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New Steamer Ashore. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 7

The Patea Shipping Company's new steamer Arapawa, which only arrived from the Clyde a few days ago, is ashore, in an ugly position on the Patea bar…

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The Arapawa Ashore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 4

Cable advice received last evening from Wellington states that the Patea Shipping Company's new steamer Arapawa, which only arrived from the…

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Falls of Halladale. Wreckage Washing Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A quantity of wreckage is coming ashore from the Falls of Halladale, Which still Hes stranded on the recks Peterborough, and it is only a matter of…

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Steamer Rosedale Beached

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 7

A message received by the Marino Underwriters Association this afternoon from Captain Cuthbert, states that the steamer Rosedale is now on the beach at the…

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Falls of Halladale Great Quantity of Wreckage Washed Ashore. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 7

A Warrnambool telegram reports that large quantities of wreckage have washed ashore from the Falls of Halladale, which was wrecked near Peterborough. The…

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The Steamer Cintra Sold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 8

According to advices received from London yesterday the iron single-deck steamer Cintra,[?] 1979 tons gross, built at Glasgow in 1882 by Messrs.Napier, Shanks and Bell, and owned by the Australasian United Steam…

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