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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1915

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Their Need Is Urgent and You Must Keep the . Good Work Going a Special Appeal War-wrecked Australian Homes

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1915 · page 7

The "Sunday Times" Shilling War Fund is for the relief of cases of distress in families which have lost the aid of their breadwinner, absent on active…

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Bombs on a Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 7

PARIS, Sunday. -- In consequence of a wireless warning, the captain of the Trans-Atlantique Company's steamer Champagne arrested a German passenger, who had five…

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Picnickers Fight. Trouble on a Ferry Steamer

Evening News · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 3

There was a row on board a terry steamer which was bringing some [?] back from Clifton Gardens to Sydney on December Details concerning it were told Judge…

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New Colonial Steamer. Omana To Load For Fremantle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 4

The new steamer Omana, the latest addition to Messrs. R. S. Lamb and Co.'s line, which will run in conjunction with the Ihumata, Joan Craig, and…

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Spanish Steamer Sunk. Mysterious Foundering. German Plot Suspected. London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 5

The liner Alphonso XIII, was lying at anchor in Santander, one of the principal seaports of northern Spain, when she suddenly sank…

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Arrest on French Steamer. German with Dynamite Bombs. Paris, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 9

In consequence of a wireless warning, the captain of the trans-Atlantique Company's steamer Champagne arrested a German passenger who had five dynamite…

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Terrific Gale. Salvage Boat Wrecked, London

Evening News · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 1

During a terrific gale on the Aberdeen [?] a salvage boat form Hull turned turtle Six of the crew were drowned, white one was imprisoned in the upturned bull…

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Wrecked in Gale. Japanese Cruiser Asama. Crew Land in Mexico. Washington, Feb. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 9

The officers and men of the Japanese cruiser Asama, which is ashore on the Mexican coast, have been saved. The news was kept secret in order to…

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Terrific Gale. Salvage Boat Wrecked. London, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 10

During a terrific gale on the Aberdeen coast a salvage boat from Hull turned turtle. Six of the crew were drowned while one was imprisoned in the upturned hull. Heroic…

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The Karlsruhe. Tale of Battle at Sea. Wreckage Drifting Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 8

The Montreal "Gazette" prints the following letter, dated Sauteurs, Grenada, B.W.I., December 3, 1914, which, it says, has been received by a gentleman in Montreal:…

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Island Storms. Vessels Blown Ashore. Api[?], Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 10

The heaviest storm that has visited Samoa since the hurricane of 1889 passed over these island between January 9 and 25. The steamer Tofua was obliged to leave about 250 tons of…

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Black Jack. Johnson Charters Steamer. Vancouver

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 5

A message from Barbadoes says that Jack Johnson has arrived at that place. He will have to charter a steamer at Vera Cruz, as other means are not available for transport…

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Foreign Cables End of the Slingsby Case Japanese Cruiser a Total Wreck

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 4

The Japanese Cruiser As[?] recently went as[?] on the Mexican coast in a Gale. The officers and men have been saved. The news of the disaster was…

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The Wrecked Japanese Cruiser. Feb. 6

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 11

The Japanese [?] was lost through striking the [?] up the Californian coast during the heavy gale. The officers and crew haves been…

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The Eugenie Wrecked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 10

Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co.'s steamer Tambo, which returned to Sydney on Feb. 3, after a three-months' trip to the Gilbert, Marshall, and Ellice…

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Japanese Seize Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 9

TOKIO, Tuesday.-- The authorities have seized the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors because she surreptitiously conveyed to China Herr von Hintze, lately German…

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Steamer Algoa May Change Ownership

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

That the P.M.S.S. Co.'s big freighter Algoa had been, purchased by local interests at a price reported to be about $300,000 was the insistent rumour on…

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Steamer Seized. Tokio, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 11

The authorities seized the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors, because she surreptitiously conveyed to China Dr. von Hintze, latterly German Minister to Mexico…

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The Lost Endeavour. Steamer Grantala Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 8

Early yesterday morning the Adelaide Co.'s steamer Grantala, still painted and fitted as a hospital ship, arrived at Sydney from Hobart after a search for the Commonwealth…

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Was She Torpedoed? a British Steamer Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel Oriole (1489 tons) with a crew of 22, bound from London for Havre, has not reached her destination…

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