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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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

Mediterranean Incident British Navy Demands Apology Spaniards Stop Steamer Warships Sent Post Haste London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 5

Boarding the Spanish Government cruiser, Miguel de Cervantes, in the Mediterranean to-day. Captain G. j. Miles, commander of the British…

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Heavy Gale Damage in Sydney Aircraft Buffeted Roofs and Fences Wrecked Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 5

Damage was done to property, and shipping and aerial craft experienced a hazardous time, when a hot westerly gale, which reached a velocity…

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In Fog Greek Steamer Sinks Collision with Warship. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 5

H.M.S. Keith, flotilla leader of 1400 tons, which was on her way home from the Mediterranean, collided with the Greek steamer Antonia Glemos,…

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Fishing Launch Wrecked

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1936 · page 2

Messrs. E. Pearce and R. Fern lost their 18ft. launch, which broke from its moorings in the harbour and was dashed to pieces on the northern…

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WRECKED Fishing Launch at Coff's Harbor a Total Loss. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1936 · page 4

An 18ft. fishing launch, the property of Messrs. E. Pearce and R. Fern, of Coff's Harbor Jetty, broke from its moorings, and was dashed…

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Lang's Record As Wrecker

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 September 1936 · page 8

Interviewed on his return from Cobar on Friday, in Sydney, Mr. Davidson, M.L.A., said that he had been expelled on Saturday, not from the Labor party,…

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Perilous Trip Battered Schooner Fought Sea for 126 Days. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 September 1936 · page 5

"We are 126 days out from Liverpool and still alive; what more do you want?" said Captain Voss, of the battered 150-ton schooner Diolinda, when…

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Sea Hazards 1935 Wreck Statistics Sailing Ships Vanishing. London, August 29

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 7

Hazards of the sea took forty-seven steam and motor ships and one sailing shin (the Herzogin Cecile) off Great Britain and Ireland's shipping register…

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One Survivor Wreck Off Iceland Coast Graphic Description

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1936 · page 5

REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Thursday. Eugene Gonedec, the only survivor in the wreck of the French Arctic exploration vessel Pourquoi Pas…

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Touching Story Doomed Man Releases Seagull Pourquoi Pas Wreck. Reykjavik

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 September 1936 · page 5

Twenty-two bodies, which had been washed up from the wreck of Dr. Charcot's Pourquoi Pas, were landed here in the presence of the Premier and 2000…

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Two Arrests on Board Steamer £40,080 Said To Be Involved Bail Refused Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 5

The allegation that the defendants had been arrested on. board a ship when they were about to leave the Commonwealth under false names…

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Rudder Smashed Damaged Steamer Docked. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 5

When the Matua, which struck a reel at Aitutaki, was docked at Auckland, it was revealed that the rudder was almost smashed off and both propellers…

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Found Drowned Wealthy Melb. Heiress Body Washed Up By Sea Disappeared Off Steamer Sydney Mystery. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 5

Richly dressed in a fur coat and other expensive clothing and jewellery, the body of Miss Constance McRae, 27, who had inherited a…

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Trying Ordeal Crew Of Schooner Wandered for Eight Weeks Islander's Self-sacrifice. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 5

News has reached Auckland of the ordeal of the crew of the Japanese schooner, Regina, which had wandered for eight weeks in equatorial waters,…

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Fight on Schooner Chinese and Malay. Broome

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 1

With eight knife wounds in his body, a Malay cook, Mardin Bin Arsad, was found dead on the schooner Colarmi today, at Broome…

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Scott Wins Speed Race and Handicap Halse Crashes at Bomboshawo Waller 1000 Miles Behind Winner Llewellyn's Plane Wrecked, Pilot Unhurt Percival Machine Lands £7000 Prize Money JOHANNESBURG

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 5

C. W. Scott, winner of the London to Melbourne air race, was also first past the post in the Portsmouth-Johannesburg race, and will collect prize money aggregating £7000. With his companion, Giles Guthrie, in a Percival Wega Gull, Scott…

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Jack Ashore Grafton Man On Leave Navy Wireless Operator Impressions on H.M.A.S. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 October 1936 · page 2

A cheery Jack Tar to come back across the world to his home town on five weeks leave last week was Mr. Max Robin, leading wireless operator…

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S.S. NAMBUCCA Fine New Wooden Steamer

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 3

The Nambucca, a hardwood steamer of 500 tons, the latest addition to the fleet of the North Coast Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., was officially…

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Airmen Found Landed on Reef Short of Petrol Picked lip By Fishermen Now on Derby Steamer. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 4

When hopes of finding the missing monospar which left Darwin on Wednesday on a return flight to England with a crew of four were…

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"The Valley of Lagoons" a Saga of the North Coast Pioneers (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Vii. the Wreck of the "Blackboy."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1936 · page 10

John Blair nominated good Kentish and Lancashire and Devonshire men and women for assisted passages to Silver River; Karl…

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