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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919

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Three Fresh City Cases. Four More From Steamer Age

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 9

Three now cane of pneumonic influenza were diagnosed at the Coast. Hospital yesterday. The patients, all of whom are men, were removed to the hospital from Newtown and…

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War Wrecks

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

From what can be gathered, from information given by some returned soldiers, we must prepare ourselves to see, later and some of the awful human wrecks of the…

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Steamer Disabled. Magdalene Towed Into Broken Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 4

The coasting steamer Magdalene, bound from the North Coast to Sydney, broke down on saturday afternoon north of Sydney Heads. Her Plight was observed by the Signal Master, Mr…

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Another Old Australian Trader Wrecked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 4

Private advices have been received stating that the steamer Gapershell, has been stranded on the African coast, and would probably become a…

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Steamer Ashore Myee on Trial Bay Beach All the Crew Safe

Evening News · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 1

The North Coast Company's [?] is ashore to Trial Bay. The Navigation Department received a [?] this morning from the local…

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Myee Ashore Salvage Gear Required Report From Trial Bay

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 7

This morning the Navigation Department received a message from the Pilot Station at South-West Rocks stating that the steamer Myee was on the beach…

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Influenza. Three Sydney Cases, One on Steamer. More Country Patients

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 5

Of the three fresh cases officially announced yesterday from the patients who had been sent to the Coast Hospital, two were a man and his wife from Canterbury, and the third a man…

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An Adventurous Career Twice Shipwrecked Fought at Heligoland Fremantle

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 7

Edward Chatters, a seaman of the steamer Rocio, now en route to Aden from Fremantle, has had an adventurous career…

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Steamer Myee Ashore. Crew Landed Safely

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 10

Rough weather prevailing on the north coast has been responsible for the stranding of the steamer Myee--one of the smaller vessels of the North Coast S.N. Company's fleet…

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Myee Ashore. Salvage Gear Required

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

yesterday morning the Navigation Department received a message from the Pilot Station at South-West Rocks stating that the steamer Myee…

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Anxiety for a Schooner, Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 12

Anxiety is felt in Auckland concerning the schooner Awanui, which sailed for Niue on December 18. It is feared the crew have developed influenza…

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Ship Ainsdale Now a Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

The British ship Ainsdale, which is so well known in the Australian trade, and only last year had such a remarkable experience of the British coast…

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Myee Ashore. at Trial Bay. South-west Rooks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 13

An easterly gale has been blowing here since Sunday night, with the biggest sea in the bay for the last 20 years breaking all over Trial Bay. The steamer Myce anchored in the…

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Fog on Harbor Manly Steamer Delayed Big Seas on the Beaches

Evening News · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 5

A for made navigation on the harbor difficult for about an hour this morning. At daybreak there was a very heavy sea mist, and thin thickened into dense tog…

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Italian Steamer for Wheat

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 9

The Italian steamer Ferrara (5660 tons), Captain Bartoloto, which left Port Said on January 26, arrived in Sydney yesterday. The vessel will olad wheat or flour for…

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