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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1916

1,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 71

Steamer Strikes Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 9

The Dutch liner Princess Juliana struck a mine in the North Sea. She was beached at Fellxstowe. The passengers and crew were saved…

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Hateful Name. Swedish Steamer Taken. Conspiracy Revealed. [?] Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 3

German [?] April last captured a [?] England. [?] now discovered that [?] actin in connect with…

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Japanese Steamer Sunk Collision Off Cape Rage London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 7

The British steamer Silver Shell and the Japanese steamer Takata Maru collided when 200 miles south- east of Cape Race, the southeastern extremity of Newfoundland, on…

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Steamer Appam. Arrival in America. German Prize Crew Aboard. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 9

The steamer Appam (7781 tons), which was reported missing while bound from the west coast of Africa to London, has arrived at Norfolk, Virginia (U.S.A.), with…

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Coastal Trades Wrecked. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 10

The coastal trader Squall, 369 tons, struck a rock and sank off the east const. All hands were saved. The sea was calm, and Captian L. Vast and cre landed about eight miles…

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Picture Shows Wrecked London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 1

The London Evening News states that the Zeppelins hovered over a Derbyshire town for three hours on Monday night, and dropped a number of bombs, causing casualties…

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British Steamer Sunk

The Sun · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 1

The British steamer Belle of France, 3876 tons. has been sunk. Her European crew and 22 lascars were landed, but 19 lascars are missing…

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A River Steamer Sunk

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 4

The Bernie, one of the oldest river steamers in the service of the C.S.R. Company, has been sunk at Cowper, on the Middle Clarence, during a gale…

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Australian Transport Ashore in Mediterranean Safely Refloated London, Friday Morning

The Sun · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 1

The Australian transport Tarpeh went ashore at Samosara, but was refloated. There is no place named Samosara in the atlases or gazetteers. There is a Greek…

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Ship in a Gale Wreck of the Volador Launceston

The Sun · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 5

The captain and crew of the barquentine [?]oador, which was wrecked or the bea[?] of Big Mussel Roe on Sunday, have arrived here from Gladstone. The captain has supplied…

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Paris Express Wrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 8

PARIS, Thursday,--The gas cylinders of the Calais-Paris express, which was derailed at St. Denis, exploded and Ect fire to the wrecked carriages. There were agonising scenes, which…

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Steamer Ashore an Incorrect Report London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 1

The news yesterday that an Australian transport named the Tarpeh had run ashore, but had been refloated, was incorrect. The vessel was the steamer Australian…

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Wreck of Volador. Crew's Escape Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 10

LAUNCESTON, Friday. -- The captain and crew of the barquentine Volador, which was wrecked on the beach at Big Mussel Roe Bay last Sunday arrived to-day from Gladstone. Captain P. J…

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Barquentine Ashore. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 17

The agents for the Barquentine Volador have received information that she is now a total wreck at Mussel Roo Bay, on the extreme north-east of Tasmania. The Volador went…

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Torpedoed Steamer End of the Brindisi. Sensational Story

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 17

Mr. M. H. Donohoe, correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle," writing from Athens, says he obtained u sensational story from Miss Lamos, an American, who was…

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Sunk by a Bomb. Zeppelin Attacks Steamer. Thirteen Lives Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- A Zeppelin on Tuesday night dropped a bomb which struck and sank, the former German steamer' Franz Fischer,, which was captured early in the war. The…

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German Bullies. Torpedo a Butch Steamer. Ordered From Pillar to Post. London, Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 1

A [?] states that the [?] 3603 tons, bound [?] ballast, was [?] by German destroyers,…

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The Wrecked Zeppelin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 17

It would seem that the Zeppelin airship L19 took part in the first raid over England last week, and after returning to Germany had set out for, the second visit, when, either by…

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The Volador a Total Wreck

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 4

The agents for the barquentine Volador have received information that she is now a total wreck at Mussel Roe Bay, on the extreme north-east of…

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