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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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

Western Grazier · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 4

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

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OF [?] South Memories of Old Wreck Long Quest For Grave Ends MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 1

In a crowded half-hour before his ship left for Sydney, Mr. Paul Rose, a young German oliicer, and grandson of the master of the ill-fated German…

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Murray Steamer Loses Cargo in Dust Storm

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 3

MILDURA, Monday.—It was learned that deck cargo went overboard when the Murray steamer Gem ran into a dust storm on the long.reaches…

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Typhoon Wrecks Ships in Hongkong

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 September 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: — Passengers who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the steamer Changte stated that on August 18 a terrific typhon swept…

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Officer Dead, Three Ill Tragic Voyage Of Steamer

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—With one member of her crew dead, two others injured, and another ill in hospital, the cargo steamer Mangola arrived…

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Steamer Lifted 300Ft. by Tidal Wave

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 September 1936 · page 4

OSLO, September 16. — Flying over the scene of the disastrous avalanche at Lake Loen, the "Times" correspondent describes a once huge…

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Privations Of Native Crew Of Lost Schooner

Barrier Miner · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — News reached Sydney last night that the native crew of the Japanese-owned schooner Regina, was rescued by a…

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Storm Wrecks Houses Narrow Escapes In Queensland

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Sweeping through four or five miles of country in the Warwick, Killarney, and Maryvale Valley districts, a wind storm,…

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Crash Wrecks Verandah

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 3

Collapsing with a rending crash when a motor car hit one of the supporting posts, the verandah of The Book Shop in Argent-street, near the…

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