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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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The Aotea Wreck. Underwriters Quote 70 Guineas Per Cent

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--The underwriters are quoting 70 guineas per cent, insurance on the wrecked steamer Aotea. A contract on the "no cure no pay"…

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Steamer Tees Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 13

The steamer Tees, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s fleet, has gone ashore in Berkeley Sound, Vancouver island. Her passengers have been rescued…

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The Steamer Strathspey

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

Unless she comes to Newcastle to replenish bunkers, which is unlikely, the steamer Strathspey will not leave Melbourne, where she arrived on the…

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The Steamer Eastern

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 16

A second attempt to refloat the steamer Eastern, which was on a sandbank near the mouth of the Brisbane River, has been unsuccessful. Three tugs were employed, and…

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Two Steamers Ashore. New York

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 5

Dense fogs which are blanketing the harbor have tied up a big fleet of trans-Atlantic liners and coasters down the bay and outside the entrance to the harbor…

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The Steamer Eastern Still Aground

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

Latest advices received from Brisbane state that the E. and A. Co.'s steamer Eastern is still aground inside of Cape Moreton, and apparently…

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Short of Coal. Steamer Perth Puts Into Eden

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 14

The coal supply of the Melbourne S.S. Co.'s cargo steamer Perth ran so low yesterday as she was on the trip between Melbourne and Sydney that she was compelled to put into Eden…

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The Steamer Eastern. Still Fast on Sandbank. Brisbane

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 9

The steamer Eastern, which is on a sandbank near the Bulwer pilot station, slewed round to the north-east this morning. She is protected from the prevailing…

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Shipping Disasters. Two Steamees Ashore. Escape of the Passengers. One Boatload Missing. Vancouver, Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 13

The Pacific Coast Company's steamship Cottage City, bound from Seattle to Skagway, grounded at Cape Mudge, British Columbia, during a blinding snowstorm. The…

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Shipping Disasters. on the American Coasts. Steamer Runs Aground in Snowstorm. Boat Full of Passengers Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 13

VANCOUVER, Friday.-- The steamer Cottage City, owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., while bound from Seattle to Skagway, at the head of Chatham Strait,…

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Storm in America. Wreck of the Cottage City. Sixteen People Missing. Vancouver

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 10

Messages by wireless telegraphy state that the steamer Cottage City, which was wrecked yesterday, has broken in two amidships. Twelve passengers and members of the crew…

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Steamer Aotea Wrecked

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 13

The steamer Aotea went ashore at Moville Point. Cape Colony, close to the spot where the steamer Maori was wrecked. She was bound from Liverpool to New Zealand…

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The Cottage City. Steamer Wrecked and Broken In Two. a Number of Passengers Missing Vancouver

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 7

A wireless message received here reports that the steamer Cottage City, which was wrecked yesterday, has broken right in two amidships, and that 12 members of the…

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Shrieking Soldiery. Rousing the Revolutionists. a Widow Woman's Home Wrecked. Mexico City

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 7

The correspondent of the New York "Herald," to show how the flames of revolution are fanned by Federal troops, says that a company of soldiery wrecked the…

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The Steamer Kylemhor

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 4

A cable message states that the steamer Kylemhor sailed from. Honolulu on the 18th inst. for Newcastle, where she will replenish her bunkers…

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Steamer Flinders. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 10

On Saturday night a fire broke out on the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Flinders, which was lying out of commission in the North Arm of Port Adelaide River. With the aid of the fire float at…

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The Steamer Eastern Still Aground

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 4

The E. & A. Co.'s steamer Eastern, en route from Kobe to Sydney, is still aground inside of Cape Moreton. The heavy seas that have prevailed…

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Steamer, Eastern. Reinsurance Quotations. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

From 15 to 20 per cent, is quoted for the reinsurance of the Eastern…

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Missing Boat Found. Shipwrecked Passengers. Vancouver, Jan. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

The missing boat, with some of the passengers, from the Pacific Coast Company' s steamer Cottage City, which grounded at Cape Mudge, British Columbia, a few days…

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The Wreck of the Aotea. Cargo Being Landed. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

Sixty-five per cent, is being quoted for the reinsurance of the steamer Aotea, which went ashore close to where the steamer Maori was wrecked in Table Bay…

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