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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

113 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 6

Steamer Refloated

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 4

The North Coast Company's steamer, Tyalgum, after being aground for a week in the channel inside the bar at Port Macquarie, got off on Monday. The…

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Wrecked Plane Eight Die in Panama Crash. Panama City

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 September 1935 · page 5

Searchers completed a 15-mile jungle trek to find the wrecked commercial aeroplane in which seven passengers and a pilot were killed…

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Catarrh Dangerous Often Makes Victims Worn-out, Run-down Wrecks

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 6

To be able to breathe freely, hear clearly, smell, taste, and arise in the morning refreshed and strong with head and throat clear and free from phlegm…

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Sea Lion's Escapades Ashore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 2

A gay old roysterer is rambling around Dunedin (N.Z.). Occupants of a fruit shop near the beach at St. Clair were aroused by a queer customer beating a…

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Held Up Steamer Wairuna Strikers' Action at Vancouver Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 5

The crew of the Union S.S. Co.'s steamer, Wairuna, which left Sydney on August 20 and arrived here on September 13, refused to-day to give steam to…

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TRAWLER Wrecked In Gale Crew of Seven Drowned Coastguards' Heroic Rescue Efforts., London

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 5

All eleven members of the crew of the trawler Skegness were drowned to-day when coastguards from Scarborough and Flamborough…

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Steamer Aground in Burnett River. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

Macdonald, Hamilton and Co.'s steamer, Kindur, with more than 300 tons of cargo for Bundaberg, went aground in the rocky reach of the Burnett River…

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Air Disaster Tas. Liner Missing Wreckage Washed Up Five Men on Board Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 5

Apart from the reported discovery of wreckage, including a lifebelt, which was washed up on Flinders Island, no trace has been discovered…

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Air Liner Lo[?] On Tasmanian Se[?] Wreckage Foun[?]

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 2

The Tasmanian air lin[?] with two passengers and [?] three, apparently crashed [?] nesday morning, on the [?]…

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Lost Air Liner Worst Fears Realised More Wreckage Found Inquiry to Be Held Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 5

The worst fears as to the fate of the Holyman Airways Company liner, Liona, were realised to-day. Large quantities of wreckage from…

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Grafton Natives Met On Island Schooner Both Born in Mary Street

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 4

The world is a small place. Mr. Charles McArthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. McArthur, Mary street, is an officer in the Federal public health…

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Building Wrecked Explosion In Chicago 13 KILLED, 60 Injured. Chicago

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 5

Thirteen persons' were killed and 60 injured to-day as a result of an explosion and a fire, which wrecked the Gliden Soya Products factory…

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Steamer Delayed Sailing for Vancouver. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 October 1935 · page 2

Arising out of the recent strike at Vancouver the sailing of the Niagara, for that port was delayed to-day, when the crew refused to sign…

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Fishermen Shipwrecked

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 October 1935 · page 2

A shipwreck that had humorous features occurred on Moonee Creek last Sunday, in connection with Coffs Fishing Club's picnic. Mr. and Mrs…

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Arms for Ethiopia Empire Proposal Steamer and Plane Routes. Geneva

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 October 1935 · page 5

Empire representatives at a meeting urged Captain Eden to use his influence to secure at least one concrete result of to-day's proceedings, namely,…

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Gale Rages on British Coast Many Ships Wrecked, Ten Deaths On Land Vessels Searching for Ship's Crew Adrift German Steamer Feared to Be Lost With Crew Of 25 LONDON

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1935 · page 5

The gale spread tragedy widely on land as on sea. There were te[?] deaths, including a child incinerated, when a chimney crashed, a youth and a man blown from a cycle, a youth buried beneath 20 yards of brick wall, a woman, aged 48, who collapsed as a result of being buffeted by the winds,…

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Collision Liner Moreton Bay Fog In The Thames Dutch Steamer Beached London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 October 1935 · page 5

The liner Moreton Bay was proceeding down the Thames to-day when it collided with the Dutch motor vessel Alcyon…

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Schooner Wrecked Ashore At Yamba Caught in Swell Members of Crew Safe

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 4

The schooner Pearl, owned by Messrs. J. Harcus and J. H. Ford, of Yamba, was washed ashore on the Convent beach, Yamba, yesterday…

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Amazing Escape Speedboat Thrill Cettien's Engines Wrecked. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 November 1935 · page 5

Two members of the St. George Motor Boat Club had amazing escapes from death yesterday, when a speedboat in which they were travelling at…

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90 DROWNED Turkish Steamer Founders Disaster Follows Hurricane Constantinople

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 November 1935 · page 5

The steamer Inebolu, foundered entering Smyrna Harbor, shortly after midnight, over 90 passengers and crew being drowned. A violent hurricane…

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