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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1927

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'Fell Asleep at Wheel' Auxiliary Schooner Wreck Marine Inquiry in Fiji. Suva

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 5

At the Marine Board inquiry into the wreck of the auxiliary schooner Greyhound, the master, Captain Scott, who had been at sea for over 25 years, admitted…

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Benzine Exlosion Fire on Schooner Crew's Narrow Escape. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 5

Further particulars of the burning of the three-masted schooner, Rooganah in Spencer's Gulf show the crew had a very narrow escape from death…

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Now Afloat Steamer Riverina, Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 2

There seems little doubt that the stranded steamer Riverina will soon be in the open sea. The vessel is now afloat in a narrow channel, and it is hoped to…

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Plane Wrecked--landed on Soft Ground. Wellington (N.Z.),Saturday

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 August 1927 · page 5

A new D.H. 50 airplane oil its way to meet members of the Imperial Air Service Commission was seriously damaged when it landed at Blenheim. The ground…

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Fire on Steamer Crew's Strenuous Fight. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 5

With a fire burning in three holds the steamer Otterpool with a cargo of 6000 tons of coal from Great Britain, arrived to-day…

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Egyptian Steamer Confiscated by Russians. Warsaw

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 5

The Odessa court confiscated the steamer Costi, whose Russian crew mutinied. The court confiscated the steamer on grounds that it is Russian property and declined…

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Exposed Skeleton Echo of Old-time Wreck. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1927 · page 5

It is believed that the skeleton which was exposed on the beach at North Head yesterday is that of a seaman of the brig Esperanzo, which was wrecked off North…

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Old Glory Wrecked Plane Found No Sign of Crew. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 September 1927 · page 5

The steamer Kyle, searching for the Old Glory, off Newfoundland, reports finding the wrecked 'plane, but no sign of the crew…

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WRECKAGE From Lost Plane Washed Up on Coast Was It Missing Atlantic 'Plane London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1927 · page 5

Search is being made on the coast of Cornwall for a wrecked 'plane, which was sighted two miles out at sea yesterday. Parts of the 'plane have been washed…

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Round World Fliers Going Home by Steamer. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 5

Brock and Schlee, who are flying round the world, have decided to return to the Pacific coast of the United States by steamer, due to the pressure of their…

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Anniversary of Wreck of Tomki

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 4

Last Wednesday was the anniversary of the wreck of the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Tomki at Ballina (September 14th, 1907) 20 years ago. While outward bound…

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Ketch Wrecked. Port Kembla

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1927 · page 8

The ketch Olie, which ran aground on the northern breakwater at Port Kembla yesterday, slipped into deep water this morning, and is expected to become a…

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Chinese General Four Dead Smuggled on Board Steamer. Calcutta, Thursday. Husband Turned on Gas. Nice

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1927 · page 5

General Chiang Kai Shek, the famous Chinese military expert who was for over two years Generalissimo of the Cantonese Nationalists, is travelling incognito on After having lost a fortune gambling, Antione Casala waited until his wife and two children were asleep and then turned on the gas. All four were found dead,…

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Plane Wrecked Not From Sir John Carling. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1927 · page 5

The Air Ministry announces that the wreckage found off the coast of Cornwall is part of an engineless glider, which after being attached to the tail of an…

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800 Houses Wrecked Earthquake on Black Sea Coast. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1927 · page 5

An earthquake on the Black Sea coast cracked the reservoir at Creanda, the water escaping in raging torrents to a lake…

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24 NATIONALITIES 700 Migrants on French Steamer. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1927 · page 5

The French steamer Commissaire Ramel, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday, has 700 passengers, comprising 24 nationalities. Two hundred and eighty are bound…

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Steamer Maiambar. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1927 · page 5

The steamer Maiambar which has been under charter by Burfis, Philp for their inter-Island trade arrived to-day from Suva. The crew will be paid off, an…

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Defrauding the Customs Managing-director Fined Ladies Bring Furs Ashore. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 5

At Perth yesterday, G. W. P. Creed, managing director of Creed, Proprietary, Limited, Melbourne, was fined £40, with costs, for smuggling furs into Australia…

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Struck Iceberg Steamer Limps Into Port. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1927 · page 5

The steamer Mamari has arrived with her bows crumpled and bent through a collision with an iceberg. There is a huge gap below the water line, patched…

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War Wrecks. Work of Red Cross

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 September 1927 · page 2

Now that the war is only a memory, there are many people who wonder what the Red Cross stands for to-day and what it is doing. Little doubt is…

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