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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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Missing for Three Weeks Three White Men On Schooner

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 December 1935 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Grave anxiety is felt for the safety of three white men and 15 natives missing in the schooner Hermes since November…

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Storms Cause Great Damage Houses Wrecked; Crops Ruined Man Severely Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 December 1935 · page 1

Thunder storms, accompanied by violent, electrical, disturbances, caused State-wide damage yesterday. Buildings were wrecked…

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New Steamer Service for Tasmania

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 December 1935 · page 6

When R.M.S. Orford sailed from Adelaide for Melbourne, Burnie, Sydney and Brisbane on Saturday last, she inaugurated the new…

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Air Liner Wrecked Passengers Escape Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 6

Holyman Airways 'plane, Lepena, crashed on Hunter Island off the Tasmanian coast to-day…

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The Man on the Bridge. by the Skipper of a Pleasure Steamer

Western Grazier · Saturday 21 December 1935 · page 4

The other day a man told me that he reckoned mine was the cort of job that [?] suit him do[?] the ground. All I'd got to do was to go…

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Remuants Of Wrecked Egyptian City

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 December 1935 · page 6

Newly discovered remnants of what was once vast city, with a magnificent palace containing a harem a mile long, were brought to London and…

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Anxiety for Steamer Tanker Lost When Towrope Breaks MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 2

All shipping on the Victorian Coast has been instructed to keep a lookout for the steamer Paring[?] whose failure to report her…

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Anxiety for Steamer Tanker Lost When Towrope Breaks MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 2

All shipping on the Victorian. Coast has bean instructed to keep a lookout for the steamer [?]ringa, whose failure to report her…

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Steamer Paringa Missing Anxiety Felt For Crew MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 1

All efforts to find the lost steamer Paringa with her crew of 31 have been unavailing, and anxiety is growing hourly. Five days have past…

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