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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1920

1,072 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 54

Steamer Due To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 8

Urilla, from Cairns, via ports (Grafton Wharf)…

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In and Out of Parliament: the Week's Political Happenings Reviewed. Is It a Lifeboat?

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 18

Questions are continually being asked about the N.S.W. Agent-Generalship, and Mr. Holman still declares that his ambitions doi not lie in that…

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New Steamer Dinoga. Latest Addition to the Commonwealth Fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

The Dinoga, a fine stamp of cargo steamer entered Port Jackson into yesterday afternoon, and as she steamed up to dock created much interest…

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Girl Overboard Fall from Ferry Steamer

Evening News · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 3

Jusnita Mavis Bourks, 16, who lives at Green-street, Waterloo, boarded the Watson's Bay ferry steamer Greycliffe at Garden Island yesterday afternoon to…

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New Steamer Waihemo. Due at Vancouver To-day

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 4

The Union S.S. Co.'s new cargo steamer Waihemo, 5680 tons register, which was launched at Howden-upon-Tyne last October, and is now on her…

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Dutch Steamer Roggevee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 15

The Dutch steamer Roggeveen and her passengers, with the exception of two natives, were released from the quarantine early yesterday morning. The Roggeveen berthed at Dalgety's wharf, Miller's Point, and…

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Cargo Steamer Jacox

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 15

A wireless message was received in Sydney yesterday from the master of the steamer jacox, hound from San Francisco, via Honolulu, statingf that he expected [?] reach Sydney on Tuesday afternoon next. On arrival…

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Crushed by Ferry Steamer

Evening News · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 4

Edward Smith, 46, a painter, of [?] Mascot, attempted to board the ferry steamer Kameruka at Circular Quay this morning, before she was…

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Offensive Germans. Episode on a Steamer. London, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 13

Viscount Grey, who, in August last, was appointed temporary British Ambassador to the United States, has arrived in Southampton from New York…

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Biscay Disaster. the Afrique Wreck. Over 450 Lives Lost. London, January 13

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 11

The loss of the liner Afrique, in the Bay of Biscay, is the biggest disaster in the history of the French mercantile marine. So far, thirty persons have been saved out…

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Steamer Clan Maclean. Abandoned at Sea

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 4

News has been received that the steamer Clan Maclean, 5052 tons register, which was only built in 1918, was abandoned at sea about…

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Shipping Strike More Hopeful Outlook Mataram's Engineers Steamer Held Up Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 5

Burne [?] and Company agents for the [?] this afternoon issued the following statement:— "We are extremely sorry that it The members of the Council of the Merine [?] Institute and the shipowners [?] again this morning when the [?] made some concessions…

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Wreck of H.m.s. Pegasus to Be Sold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 4

Recently there appeared in the South African papers an Admiralty notice calling for tenders for the purchase or certain wrecks lying on the…

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Steamer Due To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 13

Tarnen Muaru, No. 6, from Yokohama, (No. 10 Dawes Point)…

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New Federal-shire Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 5

A new steamer for the Federal-Shire Line was recently launched at Whiteinch, and arrived in the Clyde on November 19. The new vessel has…

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Fire on Steamer. Matches Stored Between Decks

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--A fire was discovered in No. 4 hold of the steamer To Anau at the Napier breakwater last night. It was subdued after two hours' pumping…

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Wreck of H.m.s. Pegasus to Be Sold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 7

Recently there appeared in the South African papers an Admiralty notice calling for tenders for the purchase of certain wrecks lying on the…

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Fireworks Explode Big Factory Wrecked LONDON, January 17

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 5

"The Times" correspondent in Paris states that an explosion wrecked a fireworks factory at Aix le Bains, in the south of France. Seven were…

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Steamer's Four Names

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 4

Bound for Australian ports from Vancouver, the Union Company's transpacific steamer Wairuna has reached Auckland, New Zealand, and…

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Steamer Due To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 8

Tamon Maru, No. 12, from Yokohama (No. 10, Dawes Point). No vessels cleared outward at the Sydney Customs yesterday…

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