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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

109 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 6

Clarence River Historical Society The Wreck Of The Isabella Arthur Tindal's Tragic Passing Entertaining Bishop Tyrell a New Chum's Pair of Skates (No. 26)

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 April 1933 · page 8

C. G. Tindal wrote to his father from Mylnes' on May 31, 1854. He begs his father to send out another bull…

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FEDERAL A.L.P. State Conference In Sydney Some Features of Agenda Expulsion of "Wreckers" Proposed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 April 1933 · page 5

Two hundred delegates representing all States of the Commonwealth will be present when the conference of the New South Wales branch of the Federal…

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Akron Wreck Found on Sea Floor. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 5

The navy located to-day sections of the dirigible Akron, which crashed two weeks ago, but no immediate trace was found of the 67 bodies still missing…

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Happenings in 1885 Presentation To Last Of His Tribe Piece of Plate for Dick of Cowper Dynamiting The Wreck Of The New England Departure of the Soudan Coniingent Memorial to Kendall

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 7

Mr. Dan O'Connor, after having vainly tried to stir a sense of patriotism and sentiment in the hearts of Australian born men and women, in an endeavor to…

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After 'Wreckers' The Cleaning-Up Process Carried Cut by Stevens Government Premier at U.A.P. Conference. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 5

The second annual convention of the United Australia party of the State of New South Wales opened to-day. There was a very large attendance of delegates…

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Mrs. Bonney Rescued by Steamer. Rangoon

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 5

Mrs. Bonney, Australian aviatrix, and her 'plane are aboard the steamer Juna, which is due here on Thursday, from Penang. She hopes to mend the 'plane…

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Adrift in Storm Japanese Steamer Returns to Port. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 5

Caught in a violent storm while steaming south of Gabo on Saturday morning the Japanese freighter, Oridono Maru broke down owing to engiue trouble and…

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Three Drowned Yacht Wrecked in Storm. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1933 · page 5

The yacht Mizpah, while journeying from Auckland to Wellington, was driven ashore near Hawkes Bay in a southerly storm. Three men lost their' lives, the…

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Twenty-three Drowned Soviet Steamer Lost. Spitzbergen

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 May 1933 · page 5

"Farewell everybody, we are sinking," was the last wireless message from the Soviet salvage steamer Rouslan, before the foundered with a crew of 23, off South…

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Fight on Steamer Seaman Jumped Overboard 30 Seamen Before Court. Wellington (N. Z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1933 · page 5

In the Wellington Court to-day the hearing began of the ease in which 30 seamen from the steamer Maiha are charged with having disobeyed orders…

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Clarence River Historical Society Separation Movement Of 1856 a Burning Question on the Clarence the Dunbar Wrecked at the Gap (No. 30)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 8

On June 21, 1857, Mr. Tindal wrote to his father from Ramornie. "In consequence of the floods more than half the population of Grafton…

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Bride Killed in Steamer Collision. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 May 1933 · page 5

The steamer Cordillera from Australia and the coastal steamer Royal Archer collided in Galleon's Reach on the Thames: The latter was considerably…

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Vessel Ashore on New Zealand Coast. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1933 · page 5

The steam or Golden Harvest, outward bound from Los Angeles for Melbourne, ran on to Barrett's Reef, Wellington, last night during a gale. Water entered the…

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Steamer Refloated. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 June 1933 · page 5

The steamer Golden Harvest, which grounded on the reef at Wellington on Tuesday, was refloated last night and taken to deck with one of her holds full…

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Time Bomb Offices And Shops Wrecked Outrage in Townsville Damage in Main Business Block. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 June 1933 · page 4

When a time bomb, apparently filled with dynamite, exploded in the main business block of Townsville, windows were shattered, walls…

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Cricket Controversy "Ball Game" to Wreck Empire Amusing American Comment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1933 · page 7

"The papers in England were full of attacks on us during the cricket controversy, and I heard nothing but criticism of Australia," said Professor…

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Pageant Smash Two Planes Wrecked Passenger Injured Both Pilots Escape Injury

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 June 1933 · page 4

Just before the start of the set programme at the aerial pageant, at the South Grafton aerodrome on Saturday, thousands of people who…

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Air Pageant Grafton's Big Success Two Planes Wrecked

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1933 · page 3

Grafton's first aerial pageant, held on South Grafton Common, last Saturday, was a great success. The attendance was very large. Sir Charles…

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War Debts to U.S.A. Payments On Account Seven Countries Fail to Pay Anything Harangue By Senator Borah. "May Wreck the Conference" Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 5

The war debt payments to-day totalled slightly less than eight per cent of the total of 143,605,000 dollars due under the existing agreement and 11,154,502, being the sum announced by the State Department to-night as representing the token payments by Britain and Italy, and full payments by Finland…

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Mishaps on Manning Drogher Sinks with Timber Steamer Breaks Telephone Wires. Taree

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 5

The drogher Advance, loaded with 650 bundles of ti-tree saplings, intended for lamination in the buildings of the approaches to the Coopernook bridge, sank…

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