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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1920

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Trade with Canada. Dominion Government Line. First Steamer Arrives

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 12

Flying the Canadian Government mercantile marine flag--white with a blue St. George cross and golden anchor in the centre, and the figure of a red beaver in the left-hand top corner--…

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Steamer From Fiji

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 4

The well-known Fijian trader Levuka is due at Sydney to-day from Suva. The Levuka will berth at the A.U.S.N. Company's wharf, Lime-st.,…

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Hirer Steamer Capsizes MURWILLUMBAH

Evening News · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 7

The North Coast steam Navigation Company's droger Cudgen capsized at its moorings here last night. The cargo included three hundred bags of maize, which…

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Exciting Experience. Steamer in Mountainous Seas

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

An exciting experience in a hurricane is reported by Captain Griffiths, of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's Island mail steamer Mawatta. which returned to Sydney yesterday…

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The Eudunda New Commonwealth Steamer Launched This Afternoon

Evening News · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

The steamer Eudunds built for the Commonwealth Government Line, was launched from cockston Island at 3.45 this afternoon by Lady Ryle, wife of…

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Eudunda Ready Launching Ceremony To-day Fine Type of Steamer

The Sun · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

Another Australian built steamer will be launched from Cockatoo Dock late this afternoon, and the ceremony will be performed by Lady Ryrie…

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Motor-schooner Tacoma Sold for £15,000

Evening News · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 4

The motor [?] Tacoma, 1608 tons was cold by auction at the State Auction Booms, Casllercagh-street, City this afternoon, Mr. F. R. Strang…

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Fire on the Steamer Tropic

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 4

Advices received by the mail yesterday state that the White Star steamer Tropic, white large, valuable cargo of colonial produce en route…

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Schooner Tacoma Sold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 14

Mr. F. R. Strange sold by auction yesterday the four-masted motor schooner Tacoma, as it lies at Neutral Bay, for £15,000. The buyer was Captain E. R. Sterling, master of the well-known six-m. [?]…

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Steamer Due To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 14

Moeraki, from Hobart (Margaret-street Wharf)…

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£15,000 for Motor Schooner. Tacoma Sold at Auction

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 19

The Norwegian motor schooner Tacoma, which is at present moored in Neutral Bay, was sold at auction yesterday by Mr. F. R. Strange, at his rooms, Castlereagh Street…

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Fire on the Steamer Tropic

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 6

Advices received by the mail yesterday state that the White Star steamer Tropic, with a large valuable cargo of colonial produce en route…

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The Kidderpore to Load Wheat. a New P. & O. Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 5

The new P. & O. steamer Kidderpore, of 5241 tons gross, and built only last year, is to come to an Australian port to load wheat for the United…

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Two Fishermen Wrecked. Exhausted and Without Food

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 19

PERTH, Tuesday.--Last evening M. M'Kenzie and Alexander Olsow, two Fremantle fishermen, arrived foolstore, exhausted, and starving at the house of Mr. White, postmaster, at…

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Steamer Strikes Seawall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 10

The pilot at Camden Haven yesterday telegraphed to the Navigation Department that the steamer Our Elsle struck the north train wall off Klondyke, owing to her steering gear…

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The Carawa Ashore. Total Loss Feared

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 4

The Commonwealth authorities received advice yesterday that the Federal liner Carawa is ashore at the Galapagos Islands, near the Panama Canal…

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Steamer Strikes Training Wall

Evening News · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 10

The Navigation Department yesterday received a telegram from the pilot at Camden Haven advisi[?] that the steamer Our Elsie collided with the…

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Carawa Ashore Near Panama Canal Total Loss Feared Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 3

The Commonwealth' authorities have received advice that the Federal ilner Carawa is ashore at the Galapagos Islands, near the Panama Canal…

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Paris Letter. the Losses Through the Wreck of the Afrique. the Late Mgr. Jalabert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 7

A naval officer, one of the surviving passengers of the Afrique, in the wreck of which were lost Mgr. Jalabert, Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia,…

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Steamer Carawa Ashore. Vessel Badly Damaged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A message from Galapagos Island states that the steamer Carawa, one of the Federal Government steamers, has run ashore. It Is believed that the…

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