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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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Located the Missing 'Plane Wrecked in Scrub One Man Alive Melbourne

National Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 2

Wrecked in scrubby, country, the missing R.A.A.F. Hawker Demon plane has been located 10 to 15 miles from Waratah, Tasmania…

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Yacht Ashore Occupants Swim to Safety Forster

National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

Clifton Penny, a well-known Sydney solicitor, his wile and two other men had to swim 30 yards to safety when Penny's 10-ton yacht Moonbill…

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Five Dead Bodies Washed Ashore in Brittany May be From Spanish Ships PARIS

National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

Five dead men, bound hand and [?]three of whom were gagged, were washed up on the coast of Brittany. It is believed that they were victims…

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10 DEAD Gas Wrecks Building LOUISVILLE, U.S.A.

National Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 2

Three bodies were recovered from the ruins of the building wrecked in the gas blast raising deaths as a result of the big blast to 10. The…

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Fifth Test Shipment of N.Z. Enthusiasts Steamer May be Chartered SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 3

New Zealanders are so enthusiastic over cricket that they are suggesting the chartering of the Monowal to take as many as can be crowded…

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Ferry Ashore Captain's Sudden Illness SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 1

WHILE in charge of a ferry steamer last night. Captain Morley took suddenly III, and the ferry, after steaming…

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Soviet Steamer Bombed Warsaw

National Advocate · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

Listing heavily and with one propellor missing., her decks scarred and scored by air bombs, her hull gapped above the waterline, and her funnels…

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No Message Steamer Shousing Broken Rudder Chain Lash of Queensland Cyclone Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 2

No further information has been received in Sydney, by wireless or otherwise, concerning the S.O.S. signals picked up last…

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Wrecked Big Plunge

Leader · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 4

Short Wave, Who apart calculations on Saturday by taking the Canterbury Flying Handicap away from…

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Adrift with Broken Rudder Japanese Steamer Safe Vessel To The Rescue BRISBANE

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 3

The Japanese steamer Shousing is fighting a cyclone approximately 70 miles east of Calms with her rudder chain broken, and the steamer Chin…

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Disabled Steamer Still Fightinb Cyclone Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 3

Agents for the Japanese steamer. Shousing. which is still fighting a cyclone off the coast of Quensland, are not over-anxious regarding the safety…

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Wonthaggi Horror More Bodies Recovered Terribly Mutilated MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Two more bodies were found to-day in the wrecked portion of the State coal mine at Wonthaggi

National Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

The discovery of the first body believed to be that of Archibald Beveridge, a deputy, was made at 7.30 a.m. by a party which had gone below at…

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Adrift at Sea Steamer in Peril Liner to the Rescue Brisbane

National Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 5

WITH her engines broken down and a heavy sea running to-day the A.U.S. freighter, Babinda sent out an S.O.S. saying that she…

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Spanish War Steamer Mined Limps Into French Port Marseilles

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

The steamer Llandovery Castle, on route to Marseilles from Gibraltar with 300 passengers, struck a mine off Cape Cerbere, where the French…

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Struck Mine Big Liner Wrecked 300 Passengers Safe Danced on Sinking Vessel LONDON

National Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

With 300 passengers aboard the 9,639 tons Steamer Liandovery Ca[?] struck a mine off Cape Cerbera, [?] Franco-Spanish frontier…

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Cause of Crash Wreckage Strewn for 100yds SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 2

"The plane lies on a stope so steep that you can hardly find a spit to stand a billy can upright, almost on he top of the mainland that divides…

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Tragic Wreck Six or Seven Drowned Launch Smashed To Pieces On Rocks Sydney Harbor Disaster SYDNEY

National Advocate · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 3

Six men were drowned and possibly seven, the names of whom have not yet been ascertained, when a 33ft. launch was wrecked in heavy seas at…

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Steamer to Be Sunk

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 1

It is reported from Barcelona today that the Catalana authorities have ordered the sinking of the French steamer Marie Theresa…

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Luxury Cruiser Found Ashore a Mysterious Affair Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

The luxury cruiser Boo Saada disappeared from its moorings last night and was found to-day ashore on ledge of rock at Killarney, in Middle…

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Bombs Fall On French Steamer PARIS

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 1

AIRCRAFT bombed the French steamer Dejebal Anatar off Minorca. A bomb fell on the deck, but did not explode, and no one…

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