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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1913

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Lumber Steamer in Trouble. the Ikala Returns to Suva

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 5

SUVA, Sunday.-- The tramp steamer Ikala, 4322 tons bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne with lumber, which sailed from Suva on, the 2nd inst, returned to port on Saturday,…

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Shipping Casualties. Lumber Steamer Sinks. Seven Lives Lost. Tamapa (Florida), Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 9

The steamer Future, laden with lumber, sank off Cape Hatteras. Seven of the crew were lost. The fate of the others is not known…

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From Calcutta. Steamer Janus Arrives. Thick Fog on the Coast. Remounts Fob India

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 3

The Currie liner Janus, from calcutta, is in port again at Sydney, and for the first time in 12 years Commander Colin M'Don[?] has come from India without some specimens for the…

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Sensational Wrecks

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 8

Nighty [?] occurred in con[?]tion with the w[?]k of a Datch schooner off the wata[?]ing place of Car[?] The [?] had a company of sig souls, and…

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Danish Steamer Wrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Night.-- The Danish steamer Gkoch was wrecked at Girdleness (Scotland). Seven people were drowned and 12 were rescued…

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Steamer Christian Bros

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 10

The Norwegian steamer Christian Bors arrived last evening from Puget Sound, after a passage of 32½ days. Captain Hille states that he experienced very heavy weather for a couple of days after leaving Pages…

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The New Steamer Indarra

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 13

Well up to time, the Indarra, the [?]lagship of the A.U.S.N. Company's fleet, arrived in Australia from London via way ports. The…

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Fire on Ferry Steamer

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 6

The attention of the nightwatchman at the Manly Ferry Company's works at Neutral Bay was attracted in the early hours this morning by the sight of smoke issuing from…

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Harbor Fire. Blaze on the Ferry Steamer Manly. Steamer's Lucky Escape

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 6

A fire broke out amongst the coal in the starboard bunker of the Port Jackson and Manly Company's steamer Manly, at the company's works, at Neutral Bay, at about…

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New Steamer for South Australia

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 4

Early last December a small steamer, named the Wandana, was launched at Govan for the West Coast Shipping Company, of Port Adelaide. She…

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New Island Steamer. Burns, Philp's Additions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 7

A now steamer is at present being constructed at Greenock for Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., which will be known as the Morinda. She will be a steel single screw…

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The Kulambangra Damaged. Went Ashore at Wallis Island. Another Submerged Rock

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 15

It has transpired that the Lever Pacific Plantation Company's. steamer Kulambangra is undergoing extensive repairs to her bottom consequent upon…

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Tug and Steamer in Collision. Copenhagen, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 9

The Danish steamer Axel collided with and sunk a German tugboat off Cuxhaven, and six of the crew were drowned…

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Steamer Held Up. Demands of the Crew. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 10

The Union Company's steamer Mapourika, is detained at Wellington, the firemen signing off to-day. This was the culmination of the recent troubles of the stokehold crew…

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Fog Like Pea-soup. Express and Slow Train Collide. Many Killed and Injured. Steamer's Long Trip. Fifty Days to Cross Atlantic. London, Monday, 8.45 p.m

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 9

The weather in Great Britain. gets worse Instead of better. Yesterday London had its taste of the visitation, and was shrouded in the densest fog…

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Wreck of the Salazie

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 12

The Salazie, one of the best known M.M. liners, and certainly one of the oldest mail steamers, has made her last voyage, having been totally…

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Blizzard in Britain. Worst for Many Years. Several Wrecks on Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Evening.-- A blizzard is raging in northern England and Scotland. Heavy falls of snow and violent gules have interrupted telegraph lines and railways. In…

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All Hands Lost. English Steamer Wrecked. Seventeen Perish. London, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 9

The steamer Hawkwood has been wrecked at Flamberough Heads, a rocky promontory on the Yorkshire coast, near Scarborough. The entire crew, numbering seventeen…

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Steamer in Typhoon. Germania's Rough Passage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 14

The German steamer Germania arrived in pert yesterday from Hongkong, via the Marshall and Caroline lsiands and German New Guinea…

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More Pay Wanted. Trouble on a Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 11

Some trouble occurred yesterday afternoon on board the steamer Myra Fell, owing to the action of some of the crew In attempting to persuade others of the hands not to sign on for…

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