Sir,--It gave me great pleasure to see in "The Age" supplement of 28th February a photo of the good old Superb, in which I had some happy times many ...
Article : 234 wordsQUEER things were always happening on that ship. At long last we were rigged, loaded and cleared for London. Our doctor had left, as he had signed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,820 wordsA FEW weeks ago a correspondent addressed to me an inquiry on the subject of the Goodwin Sands, those sandbanks in the English Channel ...
Article : 1,269 wordsThey were sitting, primly separate, on the chesterfield when the door opened presently, and their supper arrived. By and by, when they had started eating ...
Article : 2,499 wordsAn article in the American paper "Science" of 11th January states that Dr. Karl T. Compton, chairman of the Science Advisory Board, has ...
Article : 1,121 wordsSir,--My mother, then ten years of age, left England in the Blanche Moore about the end of November, 1863, landing in Melbourne in February, 1864. She is ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,--Re the R.M.S. Australia, P. and O. Co., I wish to state the above steamer struck the Corsair reef at 3 a.m. on 20th June, 1904, shortly after the pilot ...
Article : 257 wordsSir,--Reading with interest W. G. Ogden's references to marine surveyors, I would like to remind him of another fine old captain of the past. Captain ...
Article : 70 wordsSir,--I get "The Age" sent me, and am greatly interested in the Ships of the Past, as I was living in Williamstown for ten years during the clipper ships period, ...
Article : 220 wordsSir,--R.M.S. Australia was wrecked on what is known as the Corsair reef, named after the pilot schooner which was wrecked there in the early days. ...
Article : 301 wordsSir,--The Matilda Atheling was a bonnie little vessel. Built at Sunderland, and owned by Tighe and Smith, London, she brought a cargo of sugar ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,--I was pleased to read the letter published from Alfred G. Davies re the voyage of the Famenoth in 1888. I was a passenger on this trip, leaving ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,--Having been a reader of your valuable paper for some 45 years, I would like to ask if there are passengers in Victoria that came out on the ...
Article : 341 wordsSir,--In reply to questions asked by your correspondent A. E. G. Bennett (Fitzroy), I was on board the R.M.S. Australia at the time she was wrecked. ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,--In "The Age" of 9th March inquiries were made about the ship Hoogly. She arrived at Hobart on 21st December, 1859. Captain H. H. Simpkin, Dr. ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,--In a recent issue of "The Age" "O.D." inquired if there were any passengers of the John Elder living in Australia. I came from England with my ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,--There is one ship I have not seen mentioned, viz., the old Kensington, a full-rigged ship of about 2000 tons. We carried general cargo and twelve ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,--I will answer the few questions submitted as best I can. Question by "A.J.D,"--Hooghly,--No vessel of that name appears about the ...
Article : 282 wordsSir,--Among your readers may be some whose old folk arrived in Australia by either the Agostina or the Mary Nixon, which carried my maternal grandmother ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 23 Mar 1935, Page 7
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