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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917

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Steamer Omana Aground

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 January 1917 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The steamer Omana, laden with a quantity of steel rails for Port Pirle, went aground in the Steelworks Channel on Saturday at about noon. She bad left the…

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Enemy Raiders Captured Steamer Used. London, Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1917 · page 7

The Pernambuco correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Co. telegraphs that the captured crews of vessels which have been sunk by the German raider state…

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Gelatine Explosion. Many Deaths in Paris. Sinking of the Steamer Laurentic. White Star Liner. Sinking of the Laurentic. on Government Service. London, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 29 January 1917 · page 1

Another of the big anxiliary vessels of the Navy has gone. A brief announcement was made by the Admiralty authorities this evening…

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Steamer Brings £320,000. Cost £1500 Few Years Ago

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 8

Advices from London state that a vessel has just been sold for 200 times her value several years ago. As a shipping investment, the deal…

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Captured Steamer Used

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 13

The Pernambuco correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company telegraphs that the captured crews of vessels which have been sunk by the German raider state that the steamer…

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Schooner Aground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1917 · page 9

The schooner [?] which was reported aground yesterday at the Manning River, is still on the crossing. The Cathkit, which was origmally the ArrchNa-Pogue, left Sydney on January 17 for the [?]ing…

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Steamer Wombat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1917 · page 9

The Federal Port and Harbour Board's steamer Wombat arrived here on Tuesday, on route from Melbourne to Port Darwin. During the journey the vessel put into Waterloo Bay owing to some rough weather. It…

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Victorian Steamer Wombat at Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 1 February 1917 · page 2

The Federal Port and Harbour Board's steamer Wombat arrived at Sydney last Tuesday, en route from Melbourne to Port Darwin. During…

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Japanese Steamer Sold to Spanish Owners

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 1 February 1917 · page 2

The Japanese steamer Temiya Maru (ex Saint Jerome), 2946 tons gross, 2139 tons net, carries about 4550 tons deadweight, built by Furness,…

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Wreck of the Belmore

The Sun · Thursday 1 February 1917 · page 5

The Marine Court to-day held an inquiry into the circumstances of the wreck of the s.s. Belmore, which occurred at the entrance to the Macleay River on December 9. Judge…

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Steamer Westralia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 9

Messrs. Hoddart, Parker, Limited, have received a cable from New Zealand, advising the above vessel's [?] from Auckland for Sydney at 4 p.m. on Wednesday…

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Steamer Strikes a Mine. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

The steamer Clan Shaw, of 3941 tons, owned by Cayzer, Irvine, and Co., of Glasgow, struck a mine and went ashore. She broke [?] back, and became a total wreck…

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Wreck of the Belmore. Marine Court Inquiry

Evening News · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 8

Judge Docker and [?] opened an inquiry, in the Marine Court into the wreck of the steamer Belmore, which occurred at the entrance to the Macleay River on December…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Docker, President, and Captains John Vine Hall and Simpson, assessors.) Wreck of the S.S. BELMORE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 4

Mr. Kidson, of the Crown Solicitors Department appeared for the Department of Navigation; Mr. Dunhill for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company; and Mr. P. H…

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The Steamer Odland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1917 · page 20

The reference to the delay in the loading of the steamer O[?]and caused by the wharf-labourers refraining from working her owing to the members of the Seamen's Union being replaced by coloured…

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Schooner Lost Ashore at Kangaroo Island All the Crew Saved Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 4 February 1917 · page 2

A four-masted schooner ran ashore at the Scrapers at Cape St. Albans, Kangaroo Island, at noon to-day. Assistance was sent immediately from Port…

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Wrecked on Kangaroo Island Adelaide, Saturday, Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 February 1917 · page 13

Advice has been received from Kangaroo Island to the effect that a four-masted schooner is ashore. The crew have been landed. It is thought that the vessel ran…

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Four-masted Schooner Wrecked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 2

A message from Adelaide advises that a four-masted schooner ran ashore at the Scrapers at Cape St. Albans, Kangaroo Island at noon last Saturday…

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Schooner Kona Wrecked. All Hands Safe

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sunday. --The four-masted schooner Kone ran ashore at the scrapers at Kangaroo Island on saturday morning The Port Adelaide life-saving crew was…

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