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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Postal 'Plane Wrecked. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 5

Two German aviators were killed when a postal aeroplane crashed when returning from blazing the trail trip to Teneriffe. Arrangements had been made for a big…

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FOUNDERED? Lismore Ketch Corwa Crew of Six No News for Six Days. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 5

There is no news of the missing ketch Corwa, sometimes miscalled Corowa, which left Ballina on December 15 for Brisbane with a crew of…

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Dinghy and Lifebelts Washed Ashore at Broken Bay. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 5

A dinghy and several circular lifebelts, were washed up on the beach at Broken Bay, about three miles from Woy Woy, yesterday morning. It is thought the…

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Twenty Drowned Norwegian Steamer Sinks. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 5

A message from Vigo (West Indies), states that the Norwegian steamer Asland was sunk off Bayone. Twenty were drowned…

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Ketch Safe Carried Out To Sea Storm and Current Hundred Miles Off Course. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 5

Blown 100 miles off her course by a terrific storm and feared to have been wrecked, the ketch Corwa, on the Lismore Brisbane service, returned…

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Pictures Recovered From Wreck of Manuka. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 5

A cable from London announced that Mr. H. H. La Thangue, the well-known artist, had died following depression owing to the loss of two of his pictures…

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