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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918

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Steamer Missing Crew of Fifteen Bound for Newcastle Newcastle

The Sun · Monday 4 February 1918 · page 5

The steamer Marjorie, which left Adelaide at 1 o'clock on January 26 with the Glaucus for Newcastle, has not been heard of since. The Glaucus arrived on Friday, and…

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Big Schooner Launched and Ready for Sea

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 6

The four-masted schooner Luther Little, building at Somerset, Mass., for Rogers and Webb, was launched on December 18. She left the ways…

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Assault On Ferry Steamer

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 7

A fight occurred on the Manly steamer Burra Bra at about 7.30 p.m. yesterday, with the result that Enock Patrick Jones (23) and Colin Currie Drummond (24) were each fined…

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Queensland Disaster. Schooner Orete Still Missing. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 7

The Marine Board on Saturday advised that a telegram had been received from Mackay announcing the arrival of the overdue schooner Orcte. The department stated to-day…

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The Steamer Marjorie. Two Days Sheltering

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The steamer MarJorie, which arrived here to-night from Adelaide, experienced rough weather on her voyage. On Wednesday last she met the force of…

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Fight on Manly Steamer. Two Men Fined for Assault

Evening News · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 8

[?] Patrick Jones, [?], and Colin Currie [?] at the Central Police Court, this morning, charged with having [?] Norman [?]…

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Torpedoed, But Saved Steamer Which Did Not Sink Crew's Exciting Experience Fremantle

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 5

How a Dutch oil steamer was saved alter being torpedoed by Germans was related by her captain, who was recently in Fremantle. "We were about six hours out of…

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The Queensland Disaster the Aftermath of the Great Wind-storm. Mackay a Total Wreck

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 4

The terrible cyclone that devaluated so much country throughout the coastal and central parts of Queensland is gradually disappearing, and weather conditions…

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Schooner in Danger

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 February 1918 · page 7

Shortly after making Sydney Heads, after a voyage from Launceston, yesterday morning, the auxiliary schooner Jubilee got close to South Reef, and was compelled to drop a…

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Enemy Sinks Steamer. in English Channel. Thirty-two Lives Lost. London, Wednesday Night

Evening News · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 5

Mr T. J. Machamara, Parliamentary S[?]retary to the Admiralty, in reply to a question in the House of Commons con[?]rning the sin[?]ing by the enemy of a steamer in the English…

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Steamer Travelling to Conference. (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 8

Sir,—The North Coast Steam Navigation Co. have advised that they are willing to allow a concession of ten per cent to ministers and laymen attending the…

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Old Barque to Be Converted Into a Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 2

The Christchurch "Sun" states that the Union Company's iron hulk Lilla, which has been used at Wellington for some time past as a coal hulk, will…

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The Tuscania Lowered Lifeboat's Fate Death Roll Only 100 German Anti-American Campaign LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1918 · page 1

Additional parties of the Tuscania's survivors have landed on the Irish coast, and the total deaths will probably not exceed a hundred…

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Shipwrecked Sam and Marooned Mike. Sam Gets His Own Back

The Mirror · Sunday 10 February 1918 · page 13

1. "Seems as though something ought to be done with that little lot," said Mike, as he sat ruminating on the sad sea shore, and the tide brought up two nice wooden cases to his feet…

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A Steamer of Many Names Sold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 2

According to advices received, the iron steamer Follo (ex Asmund, ex Tramp, ex Skarp, ex Jeanne A., ex Saint Donats), 1536 tons, 934 tons net,…

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The Halifax Disaster. Stopping the Steamer Imo

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 2

The Belgian relief ship Imo, which collided with the munition-laden French steamship Mont Blanc and caused the Halifax disaster, had an…

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Extraordinary Looking Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 2

News received from New York states that among late arrivals at Atlantic ports is the steamer War Thistle, the product of an English shipyard…

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A Deck-hand Killed. Crushed Between Wharf and Steamer

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 4

While mooring the dredger Osprey at the wharf at Grafton (N.S.W.) on Wednesday last, a deck-hand named Thomas Manning was caught between the…

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