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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1919

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Missing Handa Isle. Further Wreckage Found

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1919 · page 4

Further wreckage, believed to be from the missing barquentine Handa Isle, which disappeared last year while on a voyage from Sydney to Melbourne, has been found at Jervis Bay…

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The Steamer Glauous

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 5

Captain W. Rees Reynolds, of the Glaucus, through the agents, A. G. Baxter and Chatfield, stated to-day that the vessel will probably leave…

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Steamer Ooma at Newcastle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 4

The Pacific Phosphates steamer Ooma arrived at Newcastle yesterday en route from Ocean Island to Melbourne. She has called for bunkers,…

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Disappeared From Steamer. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 8

When the steamer Namoi reached Newcastle yesterday from Sydney it was found that J. Roberts, aged about 70, a saloon passenger, had mysteriously disappeared…

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CONFLAGRATIONS. Oil-steamer on Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 4

An outbreak of fire occurred on the commonwealth off steamer coolcha, lyhing off cocoka island in sydney rapidly and three fireman were out off and compelled to drop…

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Stolen Notes. £1000 From Steamer. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 7

A box containing new bank notes which came out in the Ruahine for the National Bank of New Zealand, has been pillaged, and the notes already have passed into circulation…

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Shipwrecked. Crew on Pitcairn. Islanders' Hospitality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 8

Laden with lumber from Vancouver to Durban, the three-masted barquentine St. James (1600 tons), was carried by the tide on to a reef off the island of Ones about 4…

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Wreck of the St. James

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 4

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

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Shipwrecked Sailors. Rescued From Pitcairn Island. Loss of the St. James

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 February 1919 · page 3

Fourteen shipwrecked sailors, many of them wearing native-made grass hats, gifts of the Pitcairn Islanders, landed in Sydney yesterday. They comprised the crew of the American…

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Steamer Elsass at Honolulu

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 15

The Sydney Chamber of Commerce has been advised by Messrs. Thomas Brown and Sons, Ltd., of Brisbane that in reply to inquiries as to when the balance of cargo, for which…

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Refloating Stranded Steamer. London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 9

Seven tugs are working in an effort to refloat the Anglo-American Company's o[?] strainer Narragasett (9196 tons), which stranded off Bembridge while carrying 2000 British troops…

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Four More Cases On Steamer Wyandra

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 5

The Federal Quarantine Officer stated this afternoon that a further [?] had been [?] from the steamer Wyandra. Two of them [?]…

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Steamer Cooma Held Up. Brisbane

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

The Cooma, which arrived yesterday from Cairns, en route to Melbourne, has been held up owing to the crew demanding an insurance policy covering death from pneumonic…

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Woman Saves Nine Men. Survivors of a Mined Ship Dragged Ashore

The World's News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 27

CREWS of fishing smacks that have returned to Atlantic City state that Mrs. Frank Thompson, wife of the assistant-keeper of the B&rnegat Light, alter the sinking of the former…

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Another Steamer Infected Case on the Atua

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 1

It was round last night that a member of the crew of the steamer Atua, which arrived yesterday from Fill, was suffering from pneumonic-influenza…

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Pitcairn. Hospitable Islanders. Shipwrecked Sailors Welcomed

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

"We were on Pitcairn Island exactly a month to the day, and it was a month that none of us will ever forget." Andrew Nixon, steward of the wrecked barqueutine St. James,…

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Must Be Got Ashore District Commandant's Views

Evening News · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 5

I don't know what to say to you people said Major-General Lee, the [?] Commandant to Pre[?] at Victoria Barracks this morning. It secure to me the men must be get…

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Another Idle Steamer. Cooma Held Up at Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 4

The steamer Cooma, which was to arrive in Sydney to-day from Brisbane, has been held up at the northern port. The Howard Smith Company yesterday…

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American Schooner Wrecked

Evening News · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 3

The wreck of the American four master schooner, Espada, which occurred on the Barrier Reef, 16 miles form Leveu[?] is reported. The vessel had a cargo of…

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What Was Wrong? Bad Arrangements Ashore Lack of Comforts

Evening News · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 5

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