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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1921

1,127 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 57

Steamer Crostafels

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 5

The report contained in foreign newspapers that the steamers Crostafels and Goldenfels, which have arrived at Hamburg, and which were…

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Placed Ashore. Passenger From the Morea. Duping a Company. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 11

A man, who stated that he was on his way home to take office of High Commissioner for Australia, was put ashore from the R.M.S. Morea at the outer harbour on Monday. He…

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Steamer Nairana. Brass Plate From Naval Authorities

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 4

Huddart, Parker, Ltd., the owners of the Nairana, have received a brass plate from the British Navy authorities, which has been awarded the…

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Six Years on the Stocks. Steamer Not Yet Completed

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 4

The big Italian liner Giulio Pesare, measuring 633 feet overall, which has been built by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at…

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Passenger. Detained on Steamer. Refusal to Take Oath. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 11

Refusal to take the oath of allegiance or an affirmation under the Immigration Restriction Act caused a saloon passenger, Mr. Newton, of Dunedin, to be detained aboard…

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Steamer Catches Fire Sinks Off Pacific Coast One Dead, Eight Missing New York [?]

Evening News · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 1

A message from Settle States that the Japanese steamer [?] tons, [?] capsized and [?]nk off the [?] River…

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Cost of Board. at Sea and Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 8

Speaking at the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Company yesterday, Mr. E. W. Knox, chairman of directors, as an illustration of the expense of running a steamer at present,…

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Steamer Sinks. Vancouver, May 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 9

A Seattle message says the Japanese steamer Tokuyo Maru caught fire, capsized, and sank in the Columbia River. One person was killed. Eight are missing. Seventy of…

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Burnt and Sunk. Fate of Japanese Steamer. Vancouver. May 3

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 5

A Seattle message reports that the Japanese steamer Tokuyo Maru caught fire and capsized and sank off Columbia River. One man is dead and eight missing. Seventy members of…

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Schooner Eric. Agents Appointed

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 4

The American 4-masted schooner Eric, a well-known trader between the Pacific Coast, U.S.A., and Sydney, arrived yesterday morning from Eureka,…

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Heroic Rescues Daughters of the Sea Lifeboat Work

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 12

Grace Darling's spirit lives on to inspire seafaring men to greater darling and women to courageous pity. A splendid example of this nobel self…

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Steamer Held Up

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 11

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--The Union Company's steamer Mapourika was prevented from sailing last night from Nelson, because the firemen complained that as the ship had not…

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Steamer Westborough

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 4

The steamer Westborough, owned by Messrs. Humphries, shipowners, Cardiff, England, has been taken over by the Broken Hill Proprietary…

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Wrecked on Barrier Reef Adventures of Japanese Starvation and Scurvy [?]

Evening News · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 2

An expected the [?]…

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Shipwrecked Sailors. Lived on Oysters. Rockhampton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 14

The five Japanese seamen from the wrecked lugger Rockton, who found their way to Raspberry Vale Homestead, suffered great privations, one man being, in consequence, a…

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TEMPEST-TOSSED Two Men in 10-ton Ketch Voyage of Peril at Sydney From Fiji

The Sun · Sunday 8 May 1921 · page 5

"For days the storm raged, and tossed our craft as a cockleshell. Mountainous seas swept the main sea anchor away, and two others…

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Manly Cargo Steamer The Narrabeen Launched

Evening News · Monday 9 May 1921 · page 6

The [?] the news [?] streamer for the Port Jackson and Manty company, was launched this warning from Drake's Yards, Balmain. She was named…

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From Fiji in a Ten-ton Ketch

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1921 · page 1

The little auxiliary ketch Tasman, which has arrived in Sydney after an adventurous trip of six weeks from Fiji There were two navigators on board--Mr. Logan Morrisby and Captain Drover, On the way they encountered a gale of great fury. "For days the storm raged," says Captain Drever, "and tossed our craft aa a cooklesholl Mountainous seas wept the main sea anchor away, and two others wore seized by tho foaming waves, and again…

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New Cargo Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1921 · page 9

The Narrabeen the new cargo steamer built for the Manly and Port Jackson S.S. Company, Ltd., was launched yesterday at Drake's yards, Balmain. The vessel will leave a carrying capacity of 150 tons. She…

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