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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1927

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Only One Survivor Ship With Whisky Cargo Wrecked In West Indies VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 2

A message from Mexico City states that the captain and six of the crew were drowned when the British schoonner Calman. which was enroute from…

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Steamer Hits Whale Sydney

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 6

While the steamer Zealandia was off Gabo Island it collided with a whale. One passenger stated that the vessel trembled all over, and the sea…

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New Zealand Ship Ashore Collison on the Thames LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 6

The New Zealand steamer Nororata (9545 tons) went aground at North Fore, and was reflated with the tide. The steamer was anchored in the…

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Collier Foundered Seven of Crew Missing Two Bodies Seen SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 4

The coastal collier Galava foundered off Terrigal between Newcastl and Sydney at midnight. Seven of the crew are missing, but the master and…

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England Under Fog Many Channel Collisions Crewless Steamer Crusing LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 2

The whole of England has been enveloped in a fog which has never completely lifted since Friday. Many collisions between small vessels were…

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Trans Atlantic Flyer Machine Wrecked; Airman Safe LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 2

The Uruguayan airman. Major Borges, who has been missing for some days, is safe. He is being accompanied to Cape Juby by friendly…

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"Riverina" Ashore 200 Passengers Aboard Ships Race to Rescue SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 3

The "Riverina," one of the best known psseger steamers of Hudda[?]t Parrker Line, went ashore last night one and a half miles west…

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IN 75 Years Mail Steamer Progress Old Days Recalled

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 6

Travellers in the modern 20,000 tons mail steamers, which bring London within our, weeks of Melbourne, rind it hard to believe that just three…

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Aground Steamer Tasman On Creat Barrier Reef SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 2

The Dutch steamer Tasman, bound from Java to Australian ports, grounded on a submerged portion of Clerke Island, which is…

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Three Canoes Wrecked

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 5

Three canoes were wrecked during the filming of the shooting-the-rapids scenes in "Steele of the Royal Mounted," the Master picture that…

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De Pinedo Picked Up By Schooner New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 3

Auxiety regarding Commander De Pinedo, who left the Newfoundland coast on Friday evening and was reported not to have arrived at the…

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On the Screen Filmland for the Week. "Wreckage"--May Allison and Holmes Herbert

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 June 1927 · page 8

In the new Ben Verschleiser production, "Wreckage," featuring May Allison and Holmes Herbert, which comes to the Crown Theatre this…

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Room Wrecked Kerosene Heater Blows Up Goulburn Resident's Loss

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 4

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. J. T. Armstrong, of 154 Lagoon Street, North Goulburn. lit a kerosene heater in the in the…

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Steamer in Distress Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 4

A message reached Sydney to-day s[?]ating that the steamer Proteus, bound from Sydney to New Caledonia, was in distress about 300 miles off…

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Riverina Wreck Purchased for £2225 Sydney Syndicate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 2

The steamer Riverina, which stranded on the Victorian coast one and a half miles to the west of Gabo Island, on the evening of April 17, and is…

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Steamer's Close Call London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 July 1927 · page 2

The steamer Montreal, from Montreal. had a thrilling escape from disaster when in a dense fog it ran on to the submerged ledge of a huge…

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Steamer Lost Passengers and Crew Safe SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 3

A cable has been received in Sydney reporting the loss of the steamer St Francois xavier in the South China sea while on a voyage to Saigon from…

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'Plane Wreckage Is It Nungessor's? VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 4

A St. Johns (New Foundland) message states that two trappers reported to-day that they had found wreckage which is believed to be…

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22 Nations Represented on Steamer Cephee

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 10

The Tower of Babel could have had no greater confusion of tongues than the French steamer Cephee, which in Melbourne last week…

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Islands Schooner Ashore Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 July 1927 · page 2

The auxiliary schooner Greyhound, 108 tons, went ashore on a reef at Nasoata, 12 miles from Suva, last night The passengers were landed safely…

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