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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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Dived to Death Fisherman Drowned Mate Washed Ashore Launch Upset at Malabar Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 5

Frederick Smith (28), of Malabar was drowned to-day when a launch in which he was fishing with Frederick Dean, of Malabar, capsized and…

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In Fog Russian Cargo Boat Ashore On Sussex Coast 30 Yards From Seaside Houses London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 5

Coming to rest 30 yards from seafront houses, above which its bows towered, the Russian cargo boat, Assuri, of 2498 tons, crashed into the…

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RESCUED Four Fishermen Wet and Hungry Boat Driven Ashore. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1936 · page 5

Wet to the skin and ravenously hungry, four men who set out on a fishing expedition on Saturday, from Church Point, and who disappeared,…

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Coastal Steamer Launching This Week FOR N.C.S.N. CO

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1936 · page 4

On the stocks at Tuncurry, Cape Hawke, in the shipbuilding yards of Mr. E. Wright, a new 360-ton steamer, built of hardwoods grown in the…

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Six Drowned Hull Trawler Sunk Collision With Steamer 14 Survivors Rescued London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 May 1936 · page 5

Six lives were lost by drowning in the North Sea to-day, as a result of a collision off Aldborough, near Flamborough Head, on the Yorkshire…

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Wreck Washed Ashore

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 2

Minus the engine, the hull of the launch which was wrecked on the Bellinger bar recently has been washed ashore about four miles north of…

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Washed Ashore Hull Of Wrecked Launch Inquiry to Be Held at Urunga. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 4

The hull of the launch in which Mr. Jim Rowe and the late William Passmore were attempting to cross out of the Bellinger some weeks ago has been…

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Police Stoned Bridges Wrecked Jerusalem Riots British Troops As Garrison Jerusalem

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 5

Terrorism continues, though five British battalions are now garrisoning the city. New emergency regulations have been introduced…

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N.Z. Steamer Damaged Struck Concrete Wharf Berthing in a Fog. Wellington (N.z)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 3

With a grinding crash that could be heard in many parts of the city, the Union Company's inter-island steamer, Wahine, struck the Pipitea wharf, at…

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Jews Attacked Riots in Poland Seven Killed, 70 Injured Shots Looted, Homes Wrecked Warsaw

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 5

Five thousand terror-stricken Jews fled from Minskazewicki, following riots in which seven were killed and 70 injured…

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Fell Prom Steamer Chimney Sweep Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 4

As a result of a heavy fall from a steamer moored at Brushgrove, Andrew McIntosh, a chimney sweep, sustained a probable fracture to the left…

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WRECKAGE N.Z. East Coast Mystery Where Is Joseph Conrad? Auckland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 June 1936 · page 5

The east coast sea mystery has deepened by the discovery of three hatch covers, each nine feet square, by searchers along the beach to-day…

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N.Z. Wreckage Not From Joseph Conrad. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 June 1936 · page 4

The belief that "wreckage found on the New Zealand coast had not come from the Joseph Conrad was expressed today by the Director of Navigation…

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Local and General Old Wreck Uncovered

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 June 1936 · page 4

An old wreck, believed to be that of the schooner Coolangatta, which was wrecked at the mouth of a creek at Bilinga (Q.) in 1848, has been exposed by…

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Wharf Accident Whilst Unloading Steamer Piece of Coal Falls on Worker

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 June 1936 · page 4

An unfortunate accident occurred at the North, Coast S.N. Company's wharf early yesterday morning, when Bernard Bollard, a waterside laborer, of Dobie…

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Girl Pat Wrecked in Bahamas? Three White Men Dead No Confirmation London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 5

Lloyd's agent at lnagua, in the Bahamas, telegraphs that a native fishing vessel reports a small British vessel seriously damaged and…

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Disabled Steamer Nestor Towing Mungana. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 5

Advice was received today that the disabled steamer Mungana had been taken in tow by the liner Nestor, and was now being towed to Adelaide…

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'Tell Your Old Man--' Mungana's S.O.S Was Drifting Ashore Rescue Was Thrilling Bravery of Nestor's Crew Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 June 1936 · page 5

That the rescue of the Interstate liner, Mungana, by the liner, Nestor, was associated with peril and considerable work was stated to-day by…

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Ship on Reef Abandoned By Crew Steamer Standing by Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 June 1936 · page 5

Bound for Geraidton where she Was to have discharged 1300 tons of coke and Fremantle, where 6000 tons of cement Were to have been unloaded,…

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Wrecked the Camp

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 June 1936 · page 9

A camper in a tent at Red Cliffs, Victoria. was obliged to leave his abode in a hurry one night, last week, when a large Jersey bull, attracted by the…

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