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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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Search for Wreck of Lusitania

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 2

LONDON, May 17.—The Argonaut Corporation will make an attempt next month to retrieve documents and valuables from the Lusitania,…

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Search for Wreck of Lusitania

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 2

LONDON, May 17.—The Argonaut Corporation will make an attempt next month to retrieve documents and valuables from the Lusitania,…

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Chinaman Disappears From Steamer

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—When the steamer Ormiston reached Sydney to-day from Brisbane the captain wus unable to throw any further light on…

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Cat Delays Steamer Took Refuge Under Gangway MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 3

The captain and crew of the Ormonde and officials of the Harbor Trust were troubled by an incorrigible stray cat when the liner was…

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Gold in Wreck Sought Auckland Expedition

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 4

ON a stormy night of May, 1860, the ship General Grant drove into a cleft-In- the chris of Disappointment Island in the Auckland Group She…

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Treasure Ship Search Ancient Log Book Locales Wreck (Special to "The Miner") HELSINGFORS, June 6

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 3

The discovery of an aucleut log book in the family archives of Count Wachtmeister has again drawn attention to the wreck of a Russian…

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Memories of Old Sydney Historie Hotel To Be Wrecked SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 3

A link with old Sydney will go when the Botany Council demolisher the old Sir John Bnnks Hotel to make way for an £18,000 salt water…

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Wreckage From Launch No Sign Of Three Occupants SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 1

Portions of the wreekage of a launch washed up at Cronulla last night, were to-day definitely identified as comprising part of the vessel in…

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Wreckage From Launch?

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Sergeant Taper, of Sutherland, after viewing wreckage at Wattamolla Bay, is convinced that it belonged to the launch…

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Men Swept to Death Launch Wrecked In Roughs Sea SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 3

In sight of a handful of people at Norah Head lighthouse late yesterday afternoon Frank Wilson (40) all Norman Cross (45), fishermen,…

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Tragedy of the Sea Captain Tells Of Wreck (London Air Mail.)

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 June 1935 · page 3

A drama of the sea worthy of the pages of Conrad was told at the inquiry in London into the loss of the British steamer Usworth in the North…

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Steamer Towed to Sydney Struck Trouble On Way From S.A.

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 July 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A friendly line from the tug Chesterford assisted the British steamer Miltonia, which had been reported to be steaming…

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Tragic Voyage of Ketch Father And Sons Lost In Atlantic MONTREAL, July 3

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 July 1935 · page 4

The ketch Hamarah, of Boston, anchored at Sydney, Nova Scotia to-day and the exhausted crew told a harrowing story of the loss of the…

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Girl Defies Convention Three Years Cruise On Ketch Wellington (N.z.). July 6

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 July 1935 · page 2

Fulfilling a desire to combine travel with adventure, Eileen Norris (21), a Napier girl, has accepted an invitation to become one of the three members…

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Steamer Drifts Helplessly Tug Leaves for Rescue

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 July 1935 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— It is reported that the steamer Maheno was drifting helplessly off Sandy Cape, Queensland, last night with the…

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Steamer Maheno Located Sighted by 'Plane at Inaccessible Spot Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 July 1935 · page 6

Just before noon to-day the missing and disabled steamer Maheno was sighted by an aeroplane hard and fast ashore at an inaccessible spot on a sandy beach at Fraser Island, about 17 miles from Brisbane…

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Stranded Maheno Likely To Become Total Wreck

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 July 1935 · page 3

AERIAL VIEW taken from the search plane of the Mahene lying close to shore at Fraser Island (Queensland). The Maheno, with…

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Sick Signalman Taken Ashore

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday— Lowered in a cot over the side of H.M.S. Sussex at Jervis Bay, an aircraft signalman, suffering from an internal complaint…

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Steamer Held Up in Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 August 1935 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — A dispute over the signing of a member of the crew of the steamer Zcalandia resulted in the vessel being unable to…

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Steamer Held Up in Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.— A dispute over the sighing of a member of the crew of the steamer Zealandia resulted in the vessel being unable to…

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