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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919

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Sent to Quarantine Steamer From Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 8

Another Inter-State vessel, the Koonda, has been sent into the isolation area at North Head. The steamer was on her way from Melbourne to…

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Embarked for the City in Special Manly Steamer N.c.o.'s Complete Control

Evening News · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 5

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Wreck of the St. James

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 13

By the Commonwealth and Dominion liner Port Augusta, there arrived in Sydney on the 6th the captain and crew of the American four-masted…

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Wreck at the Islands

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 2

News was received by the island mail yesterday of the wreck of the American four-masted schooner Espada, on the Barrier Reef, 16 miles from Levuka…

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Steamer Charters London, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 12 February 1919 · page 1

The new time charter rate for steamers exceeding 25,000 tons is 25s per ton dead weight per month, [?] of war rights…

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Three More Cases Steamer Beulah's Crew

Evening News · Wednesday 12 February 1919 · page 5

This afternoon three more members of the crew of the steamer Heaulah, which arrived from Melbourne yesterday, were found to be suffering from what is…

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Loss of a Son in a Torpedoed Steamer Father Awarded £250

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1919 · page 7

A claim for £500 compensation, under the Seamen's Compensation Act, engaged the attention of Judge Scholes in the Metropolitan District Court…

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Steamer Due To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1919 · page 8

Miltiades, from London, via ports…

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Loss of a Son. in a Torpedoed Steamer. Father Awarded £250

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 13 February 1919 · page 4

A claim for £500 compensation, under the Seamen's Compensation Act, engaged the attention of Judge Scholes in the Metropolitan District Court…

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Suspicious Case. Taken Ashore at Ballina

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 5

BALLINA, Thursday,--A cabin steward named Lewis, from the steamer Burringbar, has been taken to the Isolation ward of the Ballina Hospital, suspected of influenza. He is a returned…

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Six To-day Sydney's New 'Flu Cases Another Steamer Infected Melbourne Reports Nine Deaths

Evening News · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 5

The new cases of pneumonic influenz in Sydney to-day totalled six—four in the suburbs and two from stramers. The four suburban cases were from Darlinghurst, Enfield Ultimo and Centerbury…

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Missing Handa Isle. Identification of Wreckage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 8

Mr. Sangster, inspector and surveyor to the Navigation Department, who recently visited Jervis Bay to identify the wreckage from the missing schooner Handa Isle, yesterday reported as follows:—…

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Wreckage at Jervis Bay. From the Handa Isle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 4

The wreckage recently washed ashore at Chinaman's Beach, Jervis Bay, has been identified as belonging to the missing schooner Handa Isle…

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French Dreadnought Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 13

A Paris message says the Dreadnought Mirabeau went ashore at Sebastopol during a snowstorm. Her position is critical. [The Mirabeau was built in 1909. She…

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French Battleship Ashore. London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 9

A Paris message states that the French Dreadnought Mirabeau (18,400 tons) went ashore at Sehastopol during a snowstorm. The vessel's position is critical…

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No Crew for Loongana Troops Marched Ashore Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 5

Owing to inability to obtain a crew, the sailing of the Loongana was to-day again postponed until Monday. The troops who were embarked…

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Sent Ashore Passenger Without Permit

The Sun · Sunday 16 February 1919 · page 2

One of the passengers was sent ashore yesterday from the Manuka, which left for New Zealand early in the afternoon, because he could not…

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Wrecking a Bridge Airman's Amazing Deed Thirty Miles Behind Hun Lines

The Sun · Sunday 16 February 1919 · page 11

The bridge was thirty miles behind the German lines. It had to be destroyed, and quickly, too. So it was decided to do it in rather a novel…

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