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Blue Mountains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1924

4 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Wrecks and Wreckers

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 7

Memories of a tragedy of 30 years ago are recalled by the salvage operations now in progress on the wreck of the Walarapa which vessel…

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Jack Ashore

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 April 1924 · page 8

The arrival of the British Special Service Squardron—please don't call it "the Fleet," because it isn't—is fluttering the dove-cotes and…

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Wreck of the "Du[?] at the Ga[?] 20th AUGUST, [?]

The Katoomba Daily · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 2

Wednesday last, August the sixty-seventh anniversary wreck of the merchant [?]bar."…

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Main Roads Bill Metropolitan Members Ject to Katoomba's, Inclusion and Threaten to I Wreck Bill

The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 11 September 1924 · page 2

There is going to be dirty word the Main Roads Bill says the "[?] Guardian." The log-rollers are trying to…

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