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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Schooner Seized by Customs After Long and Adventurous Voyage

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 4

An eighteen months adverturous, voyage by the 153-ton schooner Isabel had a sensational ending late yesterday afternoon, when police and…

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Goods Found Seized on a Schooner Information From Abroad SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

LAST night police and customs officers boarded the schooner Isabel, which arrived from Panama earlier in the…

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Not Taxable Goods by Pleasure Schooner Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 5

Mr. W. K. Weeks, owner of the schooner Isabel, from which the Customs officers, took custody of a number of bags of perfumes and other…

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French 'Plane Disaster Wreckage Over Half-mile Area Eyewitnesses' Story Paris

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

Experts inquiring into the disaster to the Emerald, which crashed in flames yesterday, killing 10 persons, are now examining the suggestion…

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Eleven Drowned When Crew Abandon Steamer Refused Life-boat Aid at First Amsterdam

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

Eleven men, being officers and crew of the steamer, Oakford, which was stranded in yesterday's gale, after springing a leak near Texel Island,…

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11 Drowned Steamer Founders Amsterdam

National Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 2

Eleven men, being officers and crew of the steamer Oatford, which foundered in yesterday's gale after springing a leak off Texel Island, were…

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150 Chinese Dead Chinese Steamer Fire Shanghai

National Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 3

A terrible river disaster is reported from Hankow, involving the deaths of at least 150 Chinese passengers and crew of a Chinese river steamer…

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Trawler Sinks South Coast Rescue Steamer Picks Up Crew Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 1

The 84-ton trawler Unique, sank yesterday off the South Coast. The crew were rescued by the steamer Bermagui and brought to…

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Collier Goes Ashore SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 1

The well-known collier, Bealiba, went ashore on Pelican -Point, near Norah Head, this morning during the dense fog…

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FOR £75 Foundered Collier Sold Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 5

The collier Bealiba, which grounded on a reef near Norah Head on Friday was to-day purchased by Messrs Hair and Forbes, machinery…

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Passenger Missing Newcastle Steamer Sensation. SYDNEY, [?]

Leader · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 2

Sydney and Newcastle [?] inquiries into the [?] of a passenger, [?] Cotton, a resident of Newcastle…

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Woman Stowaway Struggle on Steamer Melbourne

National Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 2

Struggling wildly, a young woman who was forcibly removed from the liner Orford yesterday and detained by police until the liner moved away…

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Taxi Men's Strike Riots in New York Loyalists Beaten and Cabs Wrecked New York

National Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 3

Following intermittent rioting last night when 3000 striking taxi cab drivers fought the police and wrecked vehicles of non strikers, the same…

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Steamer Jap Grounds Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 1

The coastal steamer Jap grounded on the Spit near Cape Hawke while leaving for Sydney last night. The vessel is ashore on a sandy bottom…

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Wrecked 'Plane Guarded by Police Lismore

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 4

The Moth 'plane, which crashed at Evan's Head yesterday morning resulting in the death of two men, was closely guarded throughout the night…

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Steamer Wrecked. Ashore at Cape Hawke. Crew Rescued by Pilot. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 2

The well-known coastal steamer, ”Jap,” ran aground at Cape Hawke last night, and it is probable she will become a total wreck…

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Mr. Latham Arrival in Java 'Plane Escort for Steamer Sourabaya

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1934 · page 1

Two flights of Dutch aeroplanes, flying over and circling the ship, greeted the Australian trade ambassador (Mr. Latham) several miles…

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Wrecked Steamer Jap Forster

National Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 5

Debris from the steamer Jap is now being washed into Forster Harbor. Timber, which was part of the Jap's cargo, together with fittings from…

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Lang Labor Deplorable Duplicity Wrecking the Labor Movement SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 4

The following statement was issued to-nights by the Federal Labor Conference Unity Committee, which met in Sydney to…

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MR. R. C. Packer Australian Journalist's Death on Steamer London

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 1

The death has occurred aboard the Maloja, en route to Australia, of Mr. Robert Clyde Packer, a well-known Australian journalist, in his 55th year…

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