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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917

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Collier Yambacoona Wrecked Near Terrigal Crew Saved

The Sun · Sunday 25 February 1917 · page 2

A telephone message was received in Sydney late last night to the effect that the collier Yambacoona (184 tons), owned by Messrs. J. Weston and J. Johnston, had been…

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Collier Wrecked. Yambacoona Ashore. Crew Safe

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 2

The well known collier Yambacoona, owned by Messrs. J. Weston and J. Johnston, lies ashore' near Terrigal in a dangerous position…

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Mararoa Ashore. Wellington (N. Z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 6

While on her usual journey from Lyttelton to Wellington yesterday morning, the Union Company's steamer Mararoa went ashore at Cupe Turakerae, a prominent headland about…

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Mararoa Has Narrow Escape. Runs Ashore and Refloats

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 2

Good luck evidently follows the well known New Zealand coaster Mararoa, for after being ashore at a spot where at least 23 other vessels have met their…

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Sweden's Fears Expects Greater Trouble Steamer Attacks Submarine London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Stockholm states that in the Riksdag the Foreign Minister, in supporting the demand of the Government for £1,500,000 to maintain Swedish…

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The Pirates. British Steamer Sunk. Sweden Takes Action. Neutral Envoys and German Ministers. London, Sunday Night

Evening News · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 1

The British steamer [?] tons, has been sunk. It is now reported that the Dutch steamer Bando[?] which was reported as having…

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Enemy Plot. to Wreck Buildings. Amsterdam, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 7

Five persons have been arrested on a charge of plotting to blow up a hotel at Groningen, where the British Consulate is quartered. The police found a quantity…

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"Work-wreckers." Company Director's Warning. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 8

The Chairman of Directors, Mr. D. E. McBryde, M. L. C., at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company yesterday, said that apart from…

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Vessel Lost. Wreck Near Terrigal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 8

Whilst on route from Newcastle to Sydney on Saturday evening the Steamor Yambacoona struck the Skillion, a boadland at Terrigal, and sank in seven fathoms of water…

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Dashed on the Skillion Rock. Yambacoona Wrecked at Terrigal. Crew Escape in Ship's Boat

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 4

The steam collier Yambacoona, well known in the Newcastle-Sydney coal trade, was wrecked at Terrigal on Saturday night. All hands were saved, and arrived in Sydney by…

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Wreck of Motor Launch

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 5

YAMHA, Saturday.--The motor launch Nina Meg, 25 tons (45ft. long and 4ft. draught), which foundered on the Clarence bar on Thursday night, was washed on to the southern…

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Missing Steamer. New York, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 7

The American freighter Orleans is due at Bordeaux, but her arrival there has not yet been reported. [A cablegram published yesterday stated…

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Maltese Back From Noumea. 181 Return Rv Steamer St. Louis

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 7

The Maltese immigrants who were deported to Now[?] shortly after their arrival in the Commonwealth by the French mail, returned to Sydney yesterday morning…

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A Cooler Wrecked. On the Rooks Noar Terrigal

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 4

A coal laden steamer named the Yamba coonn, which was an route from Newcastle (N.S.W.) to Sydney, struck the Skillion, a headland at Terrignal, on the sea coast…

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Industrial Unrest Work Wreckers In the Unions Creating and Fostering Disputes

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 5

Referring to the continual unrest at Broken Hill (N.S.W.) mines the chairman of directors (Mr.D.E.McBryde, M.L.C) said at the half-yearly meeting…

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Wrecked Mattai. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 6

At the adjourned inquiry into the wreck of the Maltal at Raratongn, Captain Cllffe, pilot at Auckland, expressed the opinion that the vessel struck on the uncharted mushroom…

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High on a Reef. Wreck of the Misima

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 4

Lying high On a reef at the Hast Cape, Papua, the tide rising and fulling in her holds, and with little hope of salvage, is the plight of Messrs. Burns, Philp's Island steamer…

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The Mararoa Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 6

AUCKLAND. Monday.--Divers examined the steamer Mararoa to-day and found a few dints in the bull where she had grounded. As the steamer apparently does not require the…

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Another Steamer Sunk

Evening News · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 1

The British steamer Headley has been sunk [?]…

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